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Folklore Friday: Irish Edition

... home is cut down the fairies will bring bad luck. But what exactly are fairies? In Rosemary Jordan’s 1979 paper "Irish Legends" ... but this guy won easily because I didn’t really know what I was doing. Needless to say, I did not become a member. Mrs. N: And ...

Blog entry - eclemens - 03/23/2020 - 13:49 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

Joe Hill, the Man Who Never Died

... the Slave,” “Mister Block,” “Scissor Bill,” “What We Want,” and “There is Power in a Union.” Alternately set to ... by as many of the court records vanished over time. What is known is that the evidence against Joe Hill was largely circumstantial ...

Blog entry - Public Relation... - 05/13/2013 - 10:05 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Collection Spotlight: The Edward Stanton Photographs

... views. These stunning images offer a rare glimpse into what it was like growing up in two of Detroit’s earliest Black neighborhoods, ...

Blog entry - eclemens - 05/23/2016 - 09:54 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

General Gordon Baker, Jr.: A Detroit Revolutionary to the Core

... Dodge Main plant. DRUM also took aim at the UAW for what it considered a lack of viable Black UAW staff members, leaders and ...

Blog entry - ljones - 09/11/2014 - 16:17 - 0 comments - 2 attachments

NHPRC Oral History Project: An Update from the (Wave) Field

... Other oral histories have no description at all beyond what I find in the case files, which can range from almost nothing beyond a ... they in turn have been affected by their involvement, and what they would say to people who might be thinking about becoming involved. ...

Blog entry - rbizonet - 01/19/2016 - 15:44 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

2016 Sam Fishman Travel Grant Recipients

... It explores how workers themselves thought about work, what meaning they derived from it and what values they ascribed to it, and how this all changed over time. Suarez ...

Blog entry - enordberg - 03/07/2016 - 16:03 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Book Announcement: Punching Out

... of deconstructing an immense manufacturing plant. What happens to all the equipment once a plant closes? Some of it is scrapped, ...

Blog entry - jruss - 03/15/2017 - 15:26 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Collection Spotlight: Ramon S. Scruggs, Sr. Papers

... community from the 1940s until his passing in 1984. What separated Scruggs from many other civil rights figures was his focus on ...

Blog entry - gstrassel - 03/20/2015 - 17:02 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Subject Focus: Armistice Day and Veterans Day

... in the image above of veterans registering for classes at what was then called Wayne University. WSU's work with veterans can be ...

Blog entry - teller - 12/03/2020 - 16:37 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Pay Equity and the Public Employee

... committee conducted a survey of union members to determine what issues they wished the union to address. One of the most pressing issues ...

Blog entry - jruss - 02/12/2015 - 15:53 - 0 comments - 0 attachments