history
Cesar Chavez film is excellent addition to labor history
April 3, 2014"Cesar Chavez" tells the important details of the life of the inspiring hero of labor and social justice for Chicanos.
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Today in eco-history: Richmond food riots
April 2, 2014Thousands of people, mostly women, broke into shops and began seizing food and other items before the militia arrived to stop them.
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Today in eco-history: Ruins of Pompeii discovered
April 1, 2014"The excavation of Pompeii brought to light not just individual buildings and artifacts, but an urban fabric."
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New Mexican miners commemorate “Salt of the Earth”
March 26, 2014"Where is Anita Torrez?" growled the sheriff's deputy at the young pregnant woman sitting at a table stuffing envelopes inside the union hall's doorway.
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Today in women’s history: Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
March 20, 2014Stowe was highly active in the abolition movement. She and her husband supported the Underground Railroad and temporarily housed slaves in their home.
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