Joe Hill: Labor's best-known songwriter refused to be buried in the state of Utah
Lowell, Massachusetts: America's very first union of working women
The Atlanta Washerwoman's Strike: African American women with the power to call a general strike - in 1881
Pullman: former slaves were hired to staff Pullman Box Cars because they "knew how to be servile." So they formed a union
Chicago: the Haymarket Massacre of 1886 and the Pullman Strike of 1894: Chicago was the center of both struggles, and things got white-hot
Eugene Debs: the Carnegies and Rockefellers tried to silence Debs with jail time. That didn't stop him
Colorado's mining frontier: Cripple Creek, 1894, and Ludlow, 1913: two very different battles, and both were shocking
Triangle shirtwaist fire: one hundred twenty-three young women who went to work one day in a New York factory never came home. It changed our country forever
Christmas Eve, 1913: fifty-nine children died on Christmas Eve, 1913, and it broke hearts around the world
Christmas truce: these soldiers were thought to be enemies, but they played soccer and celebrated Christmas Eve, 1914, together
The Battle of Blair Mountain: it ended when federal troops were called against thirteen thousand miners. It was "Civil War in the Hills"
Tulsa, Oklahoma: ever heard of "Black Wall Street"? There's a reason you might not have
Bonus army: The Great Depression left WWI vets with the short end of the stick. They weren't going to sit back and take it
The Minneapolis General Strike of 1934: it began with truck drives who wanted a union. They became teamsters
Sitting down, striking flint: these images might look like some lazy workers, up to no good. But they're actually heroes
The Battle of the Overpass: a PR disaster for Ford Motor Company that kick-started UAW
"Rosie the Riveter": remember the "Rosie the Riveter" image pretty much everybody knows? (Ahem)
United Farmworkers: that time when 14 million Americans stopped eating grapes, because farmworkers asked them to
The Stonewall Rebellion: a civil rights battle for the times
Wildcat: in 1970, postal workers suddenly walked off the job. The Nation, the Union, and even President Nixon were caught by surprise
Attica: what actually happened at Attica in 1971 is still largely kept hidden - but clues and facts are coming out even now
The Watsonville, California, Cannery Strike: this is what solidarity looks like
UPS: those packages won't move themselves: big brown versus the IBT
The fight for $15: the long game, and why it's part of labor's future
Woody Guthrie: why several verses of "This Land is Your Land" are usually left off when it's taught in school.
