Labor, Recreation, and Rest: The Movement for the Eight-Hour Day In the wake of the American Revolution, Philadelphia carpenters organized the first strike for a shorter, ten-hour workday. This …

Breaking the Gender Barrier: A Woman’s Place is in Her Union From the Industrial Revolution to the rise of mass production in the early 20th century, women transformed their relationship with the union …

Lewis Carroll is the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832–1898), a mathematics lecturer at the distinguished Oxford college of Christ Church. Dodgson first used his famous pseudonym for the …

Alice Pleasance Liddell (1852–1934) was the middle daughter of Henry George Liddell, Dean of Christ Church at Oxford. Alice, along with her sisters Edith and Lorina, first met Lewis Carroll on April 25, …

William Morris believed people should be surrounded by beautiful, well-made things. This vision inspired the emergence of the Arts and Crafts movement in the 1860s. Morris's lectures and essays on art …

Morris transformed his life-long interest in book design into action after attending a lecture on printing in 1888 by his neighbor, Emery Walker. For Morris, the books of his time were symptomatic of the …

The Movement for Higher Wages: From Poverty to a Living Wage American workers banded together to demand higher wages beginning with the Boston ship carpenters in 1675. With the founding of the …

Early readers of the Nancy Drew series may be surprised to find the modern version of this spirited sleuth's adventures to be quite different. The character of Nancy Drew, as well as the appearance of …

Immigrants Get the Job Done: The Power of Organizing All From its founding in 1886 through the mid-20th century, the American Federation of Labor (AFL) supported restrictions on immigration from …

The truth was one of the most powerful and prolific weapons used in WWII. By distorting, suppressing, or releasing it, morale fluctuated and battles were won and lost. Radio was a primary vehicle for the …