A comprehensive curriculum (48-page student book and 16-page teacher’s guide) that tells the story of textile workers who joined together to protest a pay cut in the winter of 1912. The two-month work stoppage drew national and international attention for its scale and tactics and helped bring about changes that improved the lives of working [...]

On the eve before the Great Depression, what the NEA called “America’s great crisis”, Chicago’s teachers found themselves in a contradictory and uncomfortable position. Although their pay and working conditions were better than the blue collar workers in the city, their work in the classroom was becoming increasingly difficult. There had been a dramatic increase [...]

A talk by Sean Burns Respected as one of the great public intellectuals of the twentieth century, Archie Green (1917-2009), through his prolific writings and unprecedented public initiatives, profoundly contributed to the philosophy and practice of cultural pluralism. For Green, pluralism was the life source of democracy — an essential antidote to authoritarianism of every [...]

A New Musical! Polly Bullock is a rising star in a big family-owned Wall Street brokerage house. Polly is also editor of New York City’s leading alternative newspaper, and is spending more and more time with Dan, the fiery, working class leader of the local grape boycott committee. Can Polly conceal her privileged identity from [...]

The exhibit of The History of Maine Labor Mural by Judy Taylor brings to Lawrence a set of images that now stands at the forefront of the discussion of 20th and 21st century public art and visual culture. In March 2011, the mural was removed from the lobby of the Maine Department of Labor at [...]