At the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., stands a 46-inch-tall model of an American icon – the Statue of ...

If you think moving is hard today, a century ago, Chicago tenants faced price-gouging, extortion and havoc in the streets every May 1.

Thinking back from my childhood, beginning around first grade, I was a witness to vast changes in Aspen. Those are powerful memories. Recently, I did a thought exercise, trying to imagine what an ...

Texas, farmers and factory workers discovered they had the same enemy: corporate capitalists. Their alliance birthed American ...

The 8’ x 10‘ oil painting was made in Ohio by Archibald McNeal Willard (1836-1918) for our country’s 100th year anniversary.

The Bay View Massacre was a pivotal moment in Wisconsin's labor and political history, but not much is known about the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The PlayStation 4 exclusive The Order: 1886 was originally supposed to be the first game in ...

It has its origins in Chicago, and a march for an eight-hour workday on May 1, 1886, that was followed by a violent clash between demonstrators and police at Haymarket Square in what would now be ...

On May 1, 1886, more than 340,000 American workers walked out of their jobs in support of the eight-hour work day, which had been proposed by the now American Federation of Labor two years prior ...

Hundreds of thousands of U.S. workers went on strike on May 1, 1886. They were led by ironworkers at the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company in Chicago.

On May 1, 1886, tens of thousands of workers across the country walked off their jobs sites in a large general strike. The New York Times reported demonstrations in St. Louis, Pittsburgh ...