New York University, Center for the United States and the Cold War
Alger Hiss and History
Inaugural Conference, April 5, 2007

Co-sponsored by the Harvard Law School Library and King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center

Alcatraz - Uncle Sam's Devil's Island: Experiences of a Conscientious Objector in America during the First World War by Philip Grosser

The Kate Sharpley Library has just published a new edition of Philip Grosser's account of his time imprisoned on the notorious prison island of Alcatraz. Philip Grosser was sent to Alcatraz because he didn't want to murder anyone, even on government orders. He was a Boston anarchist and anti-militarist who refused to be drafted into the slaughter of World War One.

Symposium on Non-union Forms of Employee Representation in the Asia-Pacific Rim

7 December 2007

The University of Sydney

Work and Organisational Studies/Business and Labour History Group

The launch pad for free download of the files below is located at:[url]http://www.marxisthistory.org/subject/usa/eam/07-09.html[/url]

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(1) "Problems of American Socialism," by Louis C. Fraina [Feb. 1919]

(2) "The National Convention," by Ludwig Lore [Aug. 1919]

(3) "To the Striking Longshoremen: Proclamation Issued by the Communist Party of America, Local Greater New York." [leaflet circa Oct. 20, 1919]

Tamiment Library, Center for the United States and the Cold War

Symposium The History of the Communist Party, USA and Progressive Politics Today: Relating the Past to the Present

March 23 (Friday) 4 P.M. – 8 P.M.

The Tamiment Library recently acquired the Archives of the Communist Party, USA and the library of the Reference Center for Marxist Studies. This program will preview these vast collections that are among the most important in the United States documenting the history of American Left.

Call for papers on Labour and Working Class History for the European Social Science History Conference, Lisbon (Portugal), 27 February - 1 March 2008

Dear all,

Barbara Wertheimer Prize in Labor History

From Brian Greenberg, [mailto]bgreenbe@monmouth.edu[/mailto]To recognize serious study in labor and work history among undergraduate students, the New York Labor History Association will award the Barbara Wertheimer Prize of $100.00 for the best research paper written during the 2006-2007 academic year. The winning entry will, with permission, be posted on the NYLHA website. Please encourage your best undergraduate students to submit their work.

Dear reader,

A Greek Entrepreneur in Utrecht
by the Historical Image Archive of Migrants (in Dutch)

How to code your own data into HISCO
History Of Work Information System

A list of 50 most consulted archives in 2006

Upcoming events: [url]http://www.iisg.nl/news/[/url]