History

When looking back at the mine battles of the early 1900s, West Virginia officials are as guilty of misrepresenting the state's rich history as any outsider.

“Other than memories and the random things my mother told me, I know so much less than I would like to about her,” Engelhardt writes of his late mother.

The first leftist government in Greek history continues the long tradition of Greek left betrayal.

History is being made in Washington today when Cuba raises its flag.

I'd hazard a guess that milk will no longer be a staple of the western diet in the not so distant future.

South Dakota receives $79,000 per Native child per year under the adoption track of the state's foster care system.

Greece has shown the world that there is an alternative to austerity: wresting power from the hands of elites and reasserting democratic control.

MIT's Phil Thompson discusses the historical opposition to slavery as a labor system, and the Black struggle to advance economic and human rights.

While European countries have updated their constitutions to include economic, social and cultural rights, the US has lagged behind.

The history of anti-oligarchic struggle in Greece can serve as inspiration for today's struggles against austerity and oligarchy.