Nineteenth Century America
From the Archives: Samuel Gompers and the American Federation of Labor
Yesterday I was walking home from the library with a bag of research books, considering how to spend the long Labor Day weekend. I am working on building the habit of taking Sundays off. (Radical, I know.) And I was musing over whether I could stretch my developing time-off-muscles to include Labor Day. After all,…
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From the History in the Margins Archives: Custer’s Last Stand?
And speaking of Buffalo Bill, as I believe we were, one small exhibit in the Buffalo Bill Museum circled around the question of the Battle of Little Bighorn. The focus of the panel, titled “Trail to the Little Bighorn”, was on the role the battle of the Little Bighorn played in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West…
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History on Display: The Buffalo Bill Center of the West, pt. 2 –The Buffalo Bill Museum, Man of the West, Man of the World
[If you’re joining us late to the subject, you can find an overview of the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in my last post. It is not surprising that the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, in Cody, Wyoming, has an entire museum dedicated to Buffalo Bill Cody, and his Wild West Show.* And…
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