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  • Flames of Discontent

    The 1916 Minnesota Iron Ore Strike

    de Gary Kaunonen ...
    On June 2, 1916, forty mostly immigrant mineworkers at the St. James Mine in Aurora, Minnesota, walked off the job. This seemingly small labor disturbance would mushroom into one of the region’s, if not the nation’s, most contentious and significant battles between organized labor and management in the early twentieth century. Flames of Discontent tells the story of this pivotal moment and what it ... Leer más

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  • Community in Conflict

    A Working-class History of the 1913-14 Michigan Copper Strike and the Italian Hall Tragedy

    A mirror of great changes that were occurring on the national labor rights scene, the 1913–14 Michigan Copper Strike was a time of unprecedented social upheaval in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. With organized labor taking an aggressive stance against the excesses of unfettered capitalism, the stage was set for a major struggle between labor and management. The Michigan Copper Strike received ... Leer más

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  • Challenge Accepted

    A Finnish Immigrant Response to Industrial America in Michigan's Copper Country

    de Gary Kaunonen ...
    The copper mines of Michigan's Copper Country, in the Upper Peninsula, were active for 150 years, from 1845 until 1995. Many of the mine workers attempted to unionize, in order to obtain better working conditions, wages, and hours.The Michigan miners were unsuccessful in their struggles with mine owners, which came to a climax in the 1913–14 Copper Country Strike. This nine-month battle between ... Leer más

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    The Vineyard of Liberty, The Workshop of Democracy, and The Crosswinds of Freedom

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    The Pulitzer Prize–winning author's stunning trilogy of American history, spanning the birth of the Constitution to the final days of the Cold War.In these three volumes, Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winner James MacGregor Burns chronicles with depth and narrative panache the most significant cultural, economic, and political events of American history. In The Vineyard of Liberty, he ... Leer más

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  • The Forgotten Man

    A New History of the Great Depression

    de Amity Shlaes ...
    In The Forgotten Man, Amity Shlaes, one of the nation's most-respected economic commentators, offers a striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression. She traces the mounting agony of the New Dealers and the moving stories of individual citizens who through their brave perseverance helped establish the steadfast character we recognize as American today. ... Leer más

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  • Wives, Mothers, and the Red Menace

    Conservative Women and the Crusade against Communism

    de Mary Brennan ...
    In Wives, Mothers, and the Red Menace, Mary Brennan examines conservative women's anti-communist activism in the years immediately after World War II.Brennan details the actions and experiences of prominent anti-communists Jean Kerr McCarthy, Margaret Chase Smith, Freda Utley, Doloris Thauwald Bridges, Elizabeth Churchill Brown, and Phyllis Stewart Schlafly. She describes the Cold War context in ... Leer más

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  • The S Word

    A Short History of an American Tradition...Socialism

    de John Nichols ...
    This fascinating history of socialism is “a chilling reminder of how much rich American history has been erased by shallow messaging” (Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine).During the Cold War, it became a dirty word in the United States, but “socialism” runs like a red thread through the nation’s history, an integral part of its political consciousness since the founding of the republic. In ... Leer más

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  • Death in the Haymarket

    A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America

    de James Green ...
    On May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded at a Chicago labor rally, wounding dozens of policemen, seven of whom eventually died. A wave of mass hysteria swept the country, leading to a sensational trial, that culminated in four controversial executions, and dealt a blow to the labor movement from which it would take decades to recover. Historian James Green recounts the rise of the first great labor ... Leer más

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  • The Workshop of Democracy, 1863–1932

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  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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  • The Fight for the Four Freedoms

    What Made FDR and the Greatest Generation Truly Great

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