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Tales from the Reuther Library — 104 episodes
Downriver Detroit: The Working Class, the Environment, and the Bonds of Place
Freedom Train: Black Politics and the Story of Interracial Labor Solidarity
Tales From the Reuther Library Director’s Office: An Interview with Katrina Rouan
Wildcat of the Streets: Detroit in the Age of Community Policing
Women on a Mission: The Remarkable Heroes Who Put Men on the Moon
The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America
The 1968 Florida Teachers’ Strike: Public Sector Unionism and the Fight against Sunshine State Conservatism
Talking Archives with the Society of Women Engineers
Polish American Women and Detroit’s 1938 Federal Screw Works Strike
Talking History with AFA President Sara Nelson
The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North
Remembering the Detroit Feminist Women’s Health Center
Union Exemption: Nonprofit Work and the Boundaries of the Commercial Economy, 1951–1976
Talking Archives with AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer Elissa McBride
Coach of Champions: D.L. Holmes and the Making of Detroit’s Track Stars
Para Power: How Paraprofessional Labor Changed Education
Oil Can Eddie and the Battle for the Steelworkers’ Union
Seeking “Self-Determination” in Detroit: Housing, Race, and the Activism of the West Central Organization, 1964-1971
Schools and the Rise of Mass Incarceration in a Post-Brown World
The Worthy Wages Movement for Childcare Workers
Awaiting Their Feast: Latinx Food Workers and Activism from World War II to COVID-19
The Carter Presidency and Gay Rights
A Fond Farewell with Audiovisual Archivist Mary Wallace
When Detroit Played the Numbers: Gambling’s History and Cultural Impact on the Motor City
Building Power, Breaking Power: The United Teachers of New Orleans, 1965-2008
Detroit Industry and ‘The Mural’
Organizing Your Own: The White Fight for Black Power in Detroit
Hillbilly Highway: Charting White Migration from Appalachia to the Industrial Midwest
Betty Friedan’s Labor Roots
The UAW’s Southern Gamble in Foreign-Owned Factories
Detroit Under Fire: Police Violence and Racial Justice in the Civil Rights Era
Labor Radical Harry Bridges and the Cold War Ire of the US Government
Labor Legend Harry Bridges and the Pacific Coast Longshore Strike of 1934
Taming the Octopus: Eli Black and the Search for Social Responsibility at the United Fruit / United Brands Company
Toxic Debt: An Environmental Justice History of Detroit
Latinx Encounters: How Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and Puerto Ricans Made the Modern Midwest
Under the Iron Heel: Repressing the IWW and Free Speech
“Girls, We Cannot Lose!”: Midwestern Black Women Activists During the Great Depression
“No Labor Dictators For Us”: Revisiting Anti-Union Forces in the Flint Sit-Down Strike
Heard It On the News: Preserving 20th Century Detroit History Through Local Newscasts
No Equal Justice: The Legal and Civil Rights Legacy of George W. Crockett Jr.
A Miasma of Metals: The Steelworkers’ Environmental Call Following the Donora Smog of 1948
A “Most Conscientious and Considerate Method”: Grosse Pointe’s Gross Post-War Housing Point System
Labor’s End: Automation’s Failed Promise of Freedom
Detroit vs. Everybody: Exploring Race, Place, and Black Superheroes in DC Comics
Detroit Remains: Using Historical Archeology to Connect Detroit’s Past to Its Present
Environmental Activism in Deindustrialized Detroit
Bargaining for the Common Good: Milton Tambor Reflects on 50 Years in Labor and Social Activism
And Many More: Celebrating SEIU’s Centennial in the Archives
Brewing a Boycott: Collective Activism and the Decades-Long Coors Beer Boycott
Communists and Community in Wartime Detroit
Sandfuture: Exploring Minoru Yamasaki, Lost Humanist Architecture, and the Rise of Sick Buildings and Sick People
Midnight in Vehicle City: Modern Lessons From the Flint Sit-Down Strike
Blaming Teachers: How America Simultaneously Professionalized and Patronized Education
From Bargaining Table to Diplomatic Table: Leonard Woodcock in China (Part 2)
From Bargaining Table to Diplomatic Table: Leonard Woodcock in China (Part 1)
Jane Street and the Rebel Maids of Denver
It’s Been a Year: Reuther Library Director Aliqae Geraci Recalls Her First Year on the Job During a Global Pandemic
Bootlegged Aliens: How Undocumented Immigrants from Canada in the 1920s Shaped American Immigration Policy
The Long Deep Grudge: How the Haymarket “Riot” of 1886 Evolved into a Bitter Battle Between the Farm Equipment Workers Union and International Harvester in the Mid-Twentieth Century
The Detroit Interracial Committee and Racial Pragmatism, 1944-1950
SEIU: A Successful Union in an Era of Labor Decline
When It Happened Here: Michigan and the Transnational Development of American Fascism, 1920-1945
Reading the Room: How César Chávez’s Early Life Prepared Him to Lead
Mechanical Engineer To Booth Babe and Back Again: The Tragicomic Career of Wayne State Engineering Alum Lucille Pieti
(Re)Introducing the Michigan Black History Bibliography
This Union Cause: The Queer History of the United Automobile Workers
Race and Rebellion: Reexamining the Unlearned Lessons of the Kerner Report a Half Century Later
Don’t Buy Where You Can’t Work: Black-Owned Businesses and the Housewives League of Detroit
Creating that “A-Ha!” Moment: Using Archives and Primary Sources to Inspire Active Learning in the Classroom
Poorly Described Folders and Human Hair: Processing Report with ALUA Archivist Shae Rafferty
A Double Agent, A Conservative Affirmative Action Advocate, and A Black Nationalist Walk Into an Archive…: Field Report with Archivist Louis Jones
Uncovering Detroit Sound: Sippie Wallace and Son House in the Folklore Archives
Hidden in the Fields: Invisible Agricultural Child Labor in the American Southwest and the Limits of Citizenship
Punishing Promise: School Discipline in the Era of Desegregation
Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman: A Memoir of Wobbly Organizer Matilda Rabinowitz Robbins (Part 2)
Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman: A Memoir of Wobbly Organizer Matilda Rabinowitz Robbins (Part 1)
“You Do It and You Teach It”: 90 Years of Dance at Wayne State
Labor Feminism in the Federated Press, 1930s through 1950s
Rise Up Detroit: Stories from the African American Struggle for Power
Hooked On The Line: Addiction and the North American Workplace, 1965-1995 (Part 2)
Hooked On The Line: Addiction and the North American Workplace, 1965-1995 (Part 1)
The Southern Airways Strike of 1960: ALPA’s Epic Battle Over Fair Pilot Wages
“Our Mothers Were the Shining Stars:” Perspectives on the Founders of the Society of Women Engineers, From a Daughter Who Grew Up Among Them
From the Vault: Metalsmith and Professor Phillip Fike and the Wayne State Academic Mace
“Taxing Limits: The Political Economy of American School Finance”
Reevaluating Comparable Worth: AFSCME’s Pay Equity Campaigns of Yesteryear and Today
Documenting the Now: SEIU Archivist Sarah Lebovitz on Using Archives to Empower the Future
“She Never Gave Up on This City:” Remembering Firebrand Detroit City Councilwoman Maryann Mahaffey
Dirty Socks, Goose Fat, and Hot Toddies: Cold Remedies from the Folklore Archive
“Long Memory is the Most Radical Idea in America:” Field Report from Reuther Collections Gatherer Louis Jones
“Democracy is Sweeping Over the World:” Brookwood Labor College at the Nexus of Transnational Radicalism in the Jazz Age
The First Noel (Night): How the Public Found Its Detroit Adventure in Noel Night, The City’s Festive Cultural Open House
Speak to the Earth and it Shall Teach Thee: Catholic Nuns, the United Farm Workers Movement, and the Rise of an Environmental Ethic, 1962-1978
Halloween Spooktacular: Supernatural Stories from Detroit Folklore
International Architect Minoru Yamasaki’s Impact on the Wayne State Campus
1933 Chicago Teachers Walkout: That Time Teachers Rioted With Textbooks and Rulers
Assembly Line Housing: Walter P. Reuther, George Romney, and Operation Breakthrough – Part 2
Assembly Line Housing: Walter P. Reuther, George Romney, and Operation Breakthrough – Part 1
I Am A Man: Photographer Richard Copley Recalls His First Assignment, 50 Years After the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike
Jessica Levy on “Black Power, Inc.: Global American Business and the Post-Apartheid City”
American Labor’s Anti-Apartheid Movement and Nelson Mandela’s 1990 U.S. Tour
Julia Gunn on Civil Rights Anti-Unionism: Charlotte and the Remaking of Anti-Labor Politics in the Modern South
Dawn Mabalon on UFW labor organizer Larry Itliong – Part 2