Jennifer Robin Terry
This year’s Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Article Prize was awarded to Jennifer Robin Terry for her article, “Niños por la causa: Child Activists and the United Farm Workers Movement, 1965–1975,” published in Pacific Historical Review. Drawing on a wide v...
By Ahmed White, author of Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers
In the late 1910s and early 1920s, the Industrial Workers of the World was the target of the most intensive campaign of state-sponsored repression in American history. A story of viol...
By Stephen Preskill, author of Education in Black and White: Myles Horton and the Highlander Center’s Vision for Social Justice
May Day in 1930 America was a dismal affair. In the first months of the year, the United States, like much of the rest of the world, was sinking into a deep e...