Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis

We are glad to announce the opening of the website of the F. Domela Nieuwenhuis Museum at Heerenveen. This Museum is dedicated to one of the founding fathers of Dutch Socialism and Anarchism. It opened its gates in 1925 in Amsterdam. After having been hosted by the International Institute for Social History, among others, it now is lodged in the Willem van Haren-Museum at Heerenveen. In a completely new presentation personal belongings and other artefacts inform the visitor about Domela Nieuwenhuis and the movements he was part of. The new website makes the Museum complete.

Class and Class Struggles

Professor Simon Middleton (University of East Anglia) and I (Billy Smith, Montana State University) invite scholars to submit proposals for essays to be published in a volume tentatively titled "Class and Class Struggles in North America and the Atlantic World, 1500-1800." To encourage discussion of these issues and to make the volume more coherent, we are organizing a conference focusing on this topic in September 2003 in Bozeman, Montana. We ask potential contributors to the volume to present their essays at the conference.

Labour, War, and Imperialism

Labor, War, and Imperialism
Twenty-Fifth Annual North American Labor History Conference
Wayne State University, October 16-18, 2003

Call for Papers

The Program Committee of the North American Labor History Conference invites proposals for panels and papers on the theme, Labor, War and Imperialism, for our twenty-fifth annual meeting to be held October 16-18, 2003, at Wayne State University in Detroit.

Reinventing Free Labour

Gunther Peck, Reinventing Free Labor: Padrones and Immigrant Workers in the North American West, 1880-1930. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xii + 293 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN: 0-521-64160-8; $20.00 (paper), ISBN: 0-521-77819-0.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Joshua L. Rosenbloom, University of Kansas, Department of Economics. May 2002.

Mikhail Bakunin

Priamukhino Readings
July 27-28, 2002
Priamukhino, Tver region, Russia

On July 27-28, in the village of Priamukhino, at the estate of the Bakunin family, the second Priamukhino readings will be held. The organizers of the Priamukhino readings consider them to be a continuation of the cause, as well as a tribute to Natalya Pirumova, the well-known Russian historian, who organized the Bakunin readings in 1994 (and numerous other events devoted to the Russian anarchist and revolutionary, Mikhail Bakunin).