Studs Terkel Radio Archive

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Chicago History Museum, History Sites, ResourcesJanuary 21, 2022

The Studs Terkel Radio Archive (STRA), launched in May 2018 on Studs Terkel’s 106th birthday, is a digital platform whereon, eventually, will live the majority of the 5,600 radio programs Terkel created during his career at WFMT in Chicago between 1952 and 1997 live. This platform, augmented by curatorial commentary, re-use tools, educational resources, highlights of creative re-use, and an original podcast, along with other special features, opens up Terkel’s radio programs and allows for a deeper level of user engagement.

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The Howling Mob Society was a Pittsburgh-based group of anonymous artists, activists, and citizen historians with an interest in the oft-buried radical peoples’ history of the United States. We worked as a team throughout 2007-08 to research, fabricate, and install a series of ten historical markers which detail the events of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 as they unfolded in Pittsburgh, PA.

View: Mapping IWW campaigns, strikes, arrests, persecution

Mapping IWW campaigns, strikes, arrests, persecution

History Sites, IWW History Project, Organizations, Resources, University of Washington (UW), Working Class Activism Organizations

Interactive maps covering campaigns, strikes, arrests and events involving IWW.

View: Activism and Events, Joel Berger Collection

Activism and Events, Joel Berger Collection

Detroit, Joel Berger, Media, Michigan, People, Photo Gallery, Photos WTM, Photos WTM Detroit, Protests, Strikes & Rallies, Resources, When Teachers Mobilize

A gallery of photos to explore.

View: “Compulsory Unionism” and Its Critics: The National Right to Work Committee, Teacher Unions, and the Defeat of Labor Law Reform in 1978

“Compulsory Unionism” and Its Critics: The National Right to Work Committee, Teacher Unions, and the Defeat of Labor Law Reform in 1978

Media, PDF, PDF WTM, Research Collections, Resources, The Journal of Policy History, When Teachers Mobilize

In 1977, a bill to better enforce the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) sailed quickly through the House of Representatives. Facing a Senate filibuster, its proponents weakened the proposal—making it, according to historian Jefferson Cowie, “lean, moderate, and basically unchallenging to the corporate order.”

View: Women Have Always Worked, an edX Course Exploration, 31-40

Women Have Always Worked, an edX Course Exploration, 31-40

Alice Kessler-Harris, Blanche Wiesen Cook, Columbia University, edX, Elaine Tyler May, Linda Gordon, Media, People, Premilla Nadasen, Resources, Video, Videos, Vivian Gornick, Women Have Always Worked, Women Labor

Women Have Always Worked: Fighting for Equality: 1950–2018.
An exploration from an online edX course.

View: Samuel Gompers Papers

Samuel Gompers Papers

History Sites, Resources, University of Maryland at College Park

The Samuel Gompers Papers collects, annotates, and makes available primary sources of American labor history. Founded by Stuart Kaufman in 1974, the project has published two microfilm series of union records and eleven volumes of Gompers’ papers. The nation’s leading trade unionist in the late…

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