Category Labor

Disaster on the Conemaugh: The Johnstown Flood of 1889

The Great, Radical Fires of 1871

The Purity and Power of Enslaved Iron Workers at Catoctin Furnace

“Let Them Truckers Roll, 10-4:” America’s Fleeting Folk Heroes and the Trucker Convoys of the 1970s

The Sugar Beet Generation

Screwmen, Spidermen, and Cotton’s Gilded-Age Gargantua

“American Child-Men” and Junkyard Zoning Wars in the Sanford and Son Era