Posted: May 31, 2022
By Kollin Fields May 31, 2022 “…I tell you that I hate your laws [and] your ‘order,’ for I know but one ‘order’—it is the highest potency of order—Anarchy.” ~Emma Goldman, 1893 “Murderous Emma Goldman, will burn in hell-fire for your treachery to our country.” ~Letter to Emma Goldman after the assassination of William […]
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Tagged: anarchism, biography, economic history, immigration, labor, political history, Progressive Era, socialism, women's history
Posted: March 29, 2022
By Dr. Nancy C. Unger and Dr. Christopher McKnight Nichols March 29, 2022 This review contains small spoilers. Our co-edited collection, A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Wiley (Wiley Blackwell, 2017), will be released in an updated, paperback edition this spring. As scholars who have long been immersed in this pivotal period, […]
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Tagged: Black history, economic history, gender, Gilded Age, immigration, labor, political history, racial violence, urban history
Posted: August 18, 2020
By Thomas MacMillan August 18, 2020 The recent uprisings for Black lives have led to calls for the restructuring of society. The principal targets have been urban police forces, which have received lavish funding and organizational impunity for many years. However, these forces are beginning to be held accountable by those they purportedly serve. The […]
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Tagged: education, immigration, religion
Posted: January 29, 2019
by Patrick Lacroix When the Payette family moved to northern New York some time around 1850, the mass migration of French Canadians to the United States was in its infancy.[1] This movement of people from the St. Lawrence River valley continued for the better part of a century, with brief interruptions in the 1870s […]
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Tagged: Gilded Age, immigration, Progressive Era
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