Baltimore Museum of Industry Announces New Podcast Series
Yesterday the Baltimore Museum of Industry announced the launch of a new podcast series that explores the history of the […]
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Baltimore Museum of Industry Distributes Free At-Home Field Trip Kits
Each year more than 30,000 students visit the Baltimore Museum of Industry to learn about the city’s industrial past. While […]
Workers at Philly Art Museum Petition for Union
On May 22, workers at the Philadelphia Museum of Art announced their intention to unionize and requested that the museum’s […]
New Marker in Maryland Recognizes Historic Strike
On April 7, 1970, road workers employed by Garrett County in Maryland went on strike in an effort to unionize. […]
American Labor Museum in NJ Opens New Exhibit on Union Made Fashion
Today, newspapers often run headlines highlighting poor labor conditions in overseas clothing factories. A new exhibit opening at the American […]
Marianna, PA Receives First State Historical Marker Commemorating Mining Accident
Blue and gold state historical markers are a common site in Philadelphia and certain regions of Pennsylvania. However, until Saturday […]
American Labor Museum in NJ Holds 27th Annual Labor Day Parade
The American Labor Museum in Haledon, New Jersey today stands on a quiet street, but in 1913, this historic house […]
New MARCH Exhibit: Women at Work on Cooper Street
“Women at Work on Cooper Street” is the newest exhibit on display at the MARCH house at Rutgers-Camden. The project details the varied lives of women who lived along Cooper Street in Camden in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Oral History Project at Hagley Preserves Brandywine Valley Stories
The project includes over 150 interviews conducted between 1954 and 1990 by Hagley’s staff and volunteers.
‘See You in the Streets’–Art and Public History Q&A with Artist and Author Ruth Sergel
Q&A with author, artist, and agitator Ruth Sergel about her arts, humanities, public history, and social activism practice, writing ‘See You in the Streets,’ and more.