🗃️ Socialist of the Day: Asa Philip Randolph (April 15, 1889 – May 16, 1979) was an American labor unionist, civil rights activist, and socialist politician. In 1925, he organized and led the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first mainly Black labor union.

Great rundown of @cliocontemporary.bsky.social most-read pieces from 2025. You could be on the list next year. Reach out to the team; we’re always looking for new/returning authors. 🗃️

What have #skystorians been reading in 2025? Look back at some of our most popular pieces this year. Topping the list is Julia Haagar's primer on grad school reading and note-taking. clioandthecontemporary.com/2019/09/23/h...

🗃️ Socialist of the Day: Rose Schneiderman (1882 – 1972) was a Polish-born American socialist and feminist, and one of the most prominent female labor union leaders. She is credited with coining the phrase "Bread and Roses," to indicate a worker's right to something higher than subsistence living.

🗃️ Socialist of the Day: Rose Schneiderman (1882 – 1972) was a Polish-born American socialist and feminist, and one of the most prominent female labor union leaders. She is credited with coining the phrase "Bread and Roses," to indicate a worker's right to something higher than subsistence living.

🗃️ Socialist of the Day: Margaret Higgins Sanger was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, eugenicist, and nurse. Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, and established organizations that evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

🗃️ Socialist of the Day: Margaret Higgins Sanger was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, eugenicist, and nurse. Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, and established organizations that evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

🗃️ Socialist of the Day: Alice Hamilton (February 27, 1869 – September 22, 1970) was an American physician, research scientist, and author who is best known as a leading expert in the field of occupational health and a pioneer in the field of industrial toxicology.

🗃️ Socialist of the Day: Florence Moltrop Kelley (September 12, 1859 – February 17, 1932) was a social and political reformer and the pioneer of the term wage abolitionism. Her work against sweatshops and for the minimum wage, eight-hour workdays, and children's rights is widely regarded today.

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Happy holidays from Heartland History and the Midwestern History Association! To celebrate the season, we are releasing a special bonus episode as our gift to you!

Bonus episode of Heartland History is available now. 🗃️

🗃️ Socialist of the Day: Charlotte Perkins Gilman (July 3, 1860 – August 17, 1935) was an American humanist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform.

🗃️ Socialist of the Day: Mary Harris Jones, known as Mother Jones from 1897 on, was an Irish-born American schoolteacher and dressmaker who became a prominent union organizer, community organizer, and activist. She helped coordinate major strikes and co-founded the Industrial Workers of the World.

🗃️ Socialist of the Day: Mary Harris Jones, known as Mother Jones from 1897 on, was an Irish-born American schoolteacher and dressmaker who became a prominent union organizer, community organizer, and activist. She helped coordinate major strikes and co-founded the Industrial Workers of the World.

🗃️ Socialist of the Day: Rose Pastor Stokes was an American socialist activist, writer, birth control advocate, and feminist. She was a figure of public notoriety after her 1905 marriage to millionaire J. G. Phelps Stokes, a member of elite New York society, who supported the settlements in New York.

🗃️ Socialist of the Day: James Graham Phelps Stokes (March 18, 1872 – April 8, 1960), known to his friends as "Graham", was an American millionaire socialist writer, political activist, and philanthropist.

🗃️ Socialist of the Day: William “English” Walling (1877–1936) (known as "English" to friends and family) was a labor reformer and Socialist Republican born into a wealthy family in Louisville, Kentucky. He founded the National Women's Trade Union League in 1903.

🗃️ Socialist of the Day: William “English” Walling (1877–1936) (known as "English" to friends and family) was a labor reformer and Socialist Republican born into a wealthy family in Louisville, Kentucky. He founded the National Women's Trade Union League in 1903.

🗃️ Socialist of the Day: Lewis Wickes Hine (September 26, 1874 – November 3, 1940) was an American sociologist and muckraker photographer. His photographs were instrumental in bringing about the passage of the first child labor laws in the United States.

🗃️ Socialist of the Day: Lewis Wickes Hine (September 26, 1874 – November 3, 1940) was an American sociologist and muckraker photographer. His photographs were instrumental in bringing about the passage of the first child labor laws in the United States.

The restraint required to not buy this plushie was equivalent to Frodo resisting the call of the One Ring

🗃️ Socialist of the Day: Lincoln Steffens (April 6, 1866 – August 9, 1936) was an investigative journalist and muckraker of the Progressive Era. He launched a series of articles in McClure's, called "Tweed Days in St. Louis", that was published together in a book titled The Shame of the Cities.

🗃️ Socialist of the Day: Lincoln Steffens (April 6, 1866 – August 9, 1936) was an investigative journalist and muckraker of the Progressive Era. He launched a series of articles in McClure's, called "Tweed Days in St. Louis", that was published together in a book titled The Shame of the Cities.

🗃️ Socialist of the Day: Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor. He won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln.

Whew, we made it through Fall ‘25. Tell us about a teaching success story. Big or small, what worked in your history courses this year? 🗃️ #academicsky

🗃️ Socialist of the Day: Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor. He won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln.

🗃️ Socialist of the Day: “Jack” John Griffith London (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was a novelist, journalist and social activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a fortune from writing.

🗃️ Socialist of the Day: “Jack” John Griffith London (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was a novelist, journalist and social activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a fortune from writing.

🗃️ Socialist of the Day: Upton Sinclair (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American writer, muckraker, political activist and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for Governor of California who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres.

In the winter of 1911 Sinclair & first wife Meta lived in the "utopian" town of Fairhope #alabama across the bay from Mobile tinyurl.com/y5pksxx9 He began his novel "Love's Pilgrimage" during that time.

🗃️ Socialist of the Day: Upton Sinclair (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American writer, muckraker, political activist and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for Governor of California who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres.

🗃️ Socialist of the Day: Leonard Abbott (1878–1953) was an anarchist and socialist best known for co-founding the Stelton Colony and related Ferrer Association in the 1910s. Abbott was radicalized through the free speech movement in the Progressive Era, as anarchists were denied their civil liberties

🗃️ Socialist of the Day: Francis Bellamy (May 18, 1855 – August 28, 1931) was an American Christian socialist minister and author, who wrote the original version of the US Pledge of Allegiance in 1892. Bellamy championed the rights of working people and the equal distribution of economic resource.

🗃️ Socialist of the Day: Edward Bellamy (March 26, 1850 – May 22, 1898) was an American author, journalist, and political activist most famous for his utopian novel Looking Backward in 1888. In Looking Backward, a non-violent revolution had transformed the American economy and thereby society.

🗃️ Socialist of the Day: Josiah Warren (26 June 1798 – April 14, 1874) was an American utopian socialist, individualist philosopher,, social reformer, inventor, printer and author. He is regarded by some as the first American anarchist (although Warren never used the term anarchism himself).

🗃️ Socialist of the Day: Joseph Arnold Weydemeyer (February 2, 1818, Münster – August 26, 1866, St. Louis, Missouri) was a military officer in the Kingdom of Prussia and the United States as well as a journalist, politician and Marxist revolutionary.

🗃️ Socialist of the Day: Joseph Arnold Weydemeyer (February 2, 1818, Münster – August 26, 1866, St. Louis, Missouri) was a military officer in the Kingdom of Prussia and the United States as well as a journalist, politician and Marxist revolutionary.

Is DSA’s next target Colorado’s Senate seat? Here’s hoping

The latest episode of Heartland History is out now. We had a great conversation with Daniel Clark about his recent work “Listening to Workers: Oral Histories of Metro Detroit Autoworkers in the 1950s.” 🗃️

New Episode! Check out the newest installment of Heartland History as we visit with Daniel J. Clark about his new work "Listening to Workers: Oral Histories of Metro Detroit Autoworkers in the 1950s."

🗃️ Socialist of the Day: Robert Owen was a Welsh textile manufacturer, philanthropist and social reformer, and a founder of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement.

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🗃️ Socialist of the Day: Algernon Lee (1873 – 1954) was a socialist politician and educator who served on the NYC Council from 1918-1921. Lee co-authored the SPA’s controversial St. Louis anti-war resolution in 1917. He was the Director of Education at the Rand School of Social Science for 35 years.

🗃️ Socialist of the Day: Morris Hillquit (August 1, 1869–October 8, 1933) was a founder/leader of the Socialist Party of America and labor lawyer in NYC's Lower East Side. Together with Gene Debs and Vic Berger, Hillquit was one of the public faces of American socialism during the early 20th century.

🗃️ Socialist of the Day: William Dudley "Big Bill" Haywood (February 4, 1869 – May 18, 1928) was a founding member and leader of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and a member of the executive committee of the Socialist Party of America.

🗃️ Socialist of the Day: Daniel De Leon was an American newspaper editor, politician, Marxist theoretician, and union organizer. He is regarded as the forefather of the idea of revolutionary industrial unionism and was the leader the Socialist Labor Party of America (SLP) from 1890 until his death.

🗃️ Socialist of the Day: Robin Wilt is a New York politician and a member of the Brighton Town Board. She is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. Wilt has been a licensed real estate professional for 14 years and is currently the Owner of a real estate brokerage firm located in Brighton.

🗃️ Socialist of the Day: Phoebe Brown is a New York politician and a councilperson on the Ithaca Common Council. She is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. Brown is a long-time community activist in Ithaca and one of the founders of Mutual Aid Tompkins.