Product Description: Volume 10 of the "Samuel Gompers Papers" focuses on the AFL's struggle to serve the nation and the labour movement during the critical period when American neutrality gave way to war. Beginning with Gompers' last minute effort to persuade German workers to avoid war with the United States, it follows the labour movement's internal debate over the meaning of American participation and the Executive Council's pragmatic - and in some cases reluctant - pledge of support, offered just weeks before war was declared...read more

Product Description: Between 1913 and 1917, the American Federation of Labor launched a wide-ranging campaign to organize women workers, expanded the Labor Forward Movement to organize the unorganized, tested new methods of reaching unskilled workers, and welcomed new unions into the fold...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: With almost forty years' experience as a labor leader by 1909, Samuel Gompers had learned the value of practical achievements. Shorter hours, higher wages, safer and more sanitary workplaces, and a voice in establishing working conditions were the hallmarks of trade unionism in the Progressive Era, and these hard-won, incremental gains had significantly improved working-class lives...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: At the 1795 treaty council that sealed Anthony Wayne's victory at Fallen Timbers in northwest Ohio, the Wyandot leader Tarhe spoke for the assembled Native leaders when he admonished the American emissaries: "Take care of your little ones; an impartial father equally regards all his children...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Looking around him in 1906, Samuel Gompers saw a labor movement beset by opponents who, he said, "represent neither conscience nor humanity, but rather greed and avarice". This installment in the multivolume documentary history of the nation's premier labor leader spotlights a pivotal period in the AFL's development...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: The essays in this volume explore some of the potentially divisive realities that characterized the Federalist Era. Nine distinguished authors address themes that include the ideological assumptions that fueled the political debate, the interrelated chracter of social and political history, the role of the courts as an emerging force in arbitrating and containing conflict, and the expansionist impulses that pushed the new nation's borders westward...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Black activists and scholars offer observations and analyses of the life of Martin Luther King, jr, the civil rights movement, and its impact on recent American history (view table of contents)