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I have reported final grades for the semester and am more or less ready to close the book on my teaching for spring 2024. I taught three classes—an introductory survey of United States history after the Civil War (Hist 2302); an upper-division course on labor history (Hist 4336 Work, Wealth,…

It is always a unique delight to look at a document written by someone who had a profound impact on history. I experienced that joy this week while I was looking through a file of documents and was surprised to find a letter written by Coretta Scott King. In April…

Last week I was lecturing about the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 and its vast consequences for the labor movement. A student raised his hand and asked if President Biden had used Taft-Hartley to intervene when rail workers threatened to strike a couple years ago. It had been awhile since I…