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EPISODE · Oct 9, 2020 · 14 MIN

'The Great Equalizer' (from "Blasts from the Past")

from Virginia Humanities · host Virginia Humanities

After Nobel introduced dynamite to the world, radical revolutionaries harnessed the explosives to foster a social movement that threatened the government and wealthy elites. In 1880s Chicago, an anarchist named Louis Lingg saw dynamite as a powerful way for the labor movement to fight for their cause. Brian talks with scholar Tim Messer-Kruse about Lingg’s rise, and demise, within the labor movement of the late 19th century.

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