Book of Donmon Teith

A spectacular example of collective protest, the Great Strike of 1877--actually a sequence of related actions--was America's first national strike and the first

For one week in late July of 1877, America shook with anger and fear as a variety of urban residents, mostly working class, attacked railroad property in dozens

New perspectives on a pivotal moment in U.S. history

The Great Strike of 1877 was the largest labor upheaval on Earth for the entire century between the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and the beginning of the

When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921 explores how workers escalated their tactics, even taking up arms, to disrupt the capitalist economy an