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5 min read 2023-01-23 19:00:00

Fair Time Legislation Is Achievable, Not Just for Rail Workers But for Everyone

Even as President Biden signed legislation imposing a contract without paid sick leave on 115,000 rail workers, he made it clear that the fight for

6 min read 2023-01-06 14:30:00

Hello everyone! Let's welcome author Amanda Kai to our online Jane Austen Book Club and let's congratulate her on the publication of her latest

1 min read 2022-12-05 15:30:00

It’s 150 years since Ralph Vaughan Williams was born, on 12 October 1872. He wasn’t from Birmingham, but from Down Ampney, Gloucestershire. He

6 min read 2022-11-28 19:00:00

As mine owners and their goons terrorized striking miners and their families during the Harlan County Coal wars in 1931, Florence Reece penned the

4 min read 2022-11-28 07:03:34

Lately Ms Soapbox has been thinking about how to talk to her conservative friends without falling even further down the rabbit hole of polarization.

10 min read 2022-10-06 22:01:58

Burnout, working all hours, undercharging for tattoos. Does this sound familiar? Kerry-Anne Richardson (Kezz) is a autistic tattooer of 15 years and

10 min read 2022-10-06 22:01:58

Burnout, working all hours, undercharging for tattoos. Does this sound familiar? Kerry-Anne Richardson (Kezz) is an autistic tattooer of 15 years and

4 min read 2022-10-03 19:05:00

“Get your 9 to 5 newsletter! Get your 9 to 5!” The early 1970s was a time of profound economic transformation. Women from across the class

5 min read 2022-09-30 02:23:45

By Norman Polmar Photo courtesy of U.S. Naval Institute (Editor’s note: This is the seventeenth in a series of blogs by Norman Polmar—author,

22 min read 2022-09-21 17:00:00

Today we’re very excited to share the ultimate list of fabric stores in Canada! Originally compiled by @peacysewist for her former blog, I was

25 min read 2022-09-21 17:00:00

Today we’re very excited to share the ultimate list of fabric stores in Canada! Originally compiled by @peacysewist for her former blog, I was

16 min read 2022-09-21 17:00:00

Today we’re very excited to share the ultimate list of fabric stores in Canada! Originally compiled by @peacysewist for her former blog, I was

2 min read 2022-09-15 20:10:06

The following is a guest post from Music Reference Specialist Heather Darnell. Jordan Rudess. Letter to Leonard Bernstein. Bernstein Collection,

2 min read 2022-09-15 20:10:06

The following is a guest post from Music Reference Specialist Heather Darnell. Jordan Rudess. Letter to Leonard Bernstein. Bernstein Collection,

4 min read 2022-09-08 20:00:21

Jane Cross, photographer. Destiny Meadows with the Sammy Nestico Papers, 2022. The following is a guest post from Destiny Meadows, a Pruett Fellow at