New Finding Aid for the papers of 'Labor Priest' Msgr. George Gilmary Higgins available from the American Catholic History Research Center and University Archives of The Catholic University of America (CUA) in Washington, D.C.

Call for Contributors--Encyclopedia of American Labor History
Editor: Melvyn Dubofsky, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Binghamton University, SUNY

Associate Editors:

Colin Davis, University of Alabama at Birmingham

John Stoner, Binghamton University

Format and Purpose

Arbeiterbewegung und Sozialgeschichte (2008), 21-22
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Aufsätze:

Peter Kuckuk: Die Bremer Räterepublik in der "Ästhetik des Widerstands" von Peter Weiss

Jörg Wollenberg: Nazi-Jahre 1933-1939. Erinnerungen von Henry Oliver

Wiebke Gautier: Reaktionen auf Displaced Persons in Bremen von 1945-1951

Eugenie W. Gohr: Die ERwerbstätigkeit verheirateter Lehrerinnen in der Weimarer Republik

Sören Dannauer: Der Politiker Hermann Heinrich Meyer - Mehr als ein Reeder

Biographisches:

Välkommen till seminariet

"Antipodes - Chile and Sweden during dictatorship and democracy"den 7 maj 2009 på ABF-huset i Stockholm

Antalet platser är begränsade och vi behöver därför din anmälan senast den 22 april. För att anmäla dig mejla till Silke Neunsinger silke.neunsinger(snabel-a)arbark.se eller ring 08-412 39 27.

Vi bjuder på lunch och fika, meddela gärna om du behöver specialmat och om du tänker delta i mottagningen på kvällen.

Antipodes - Chile and Sweden during dictatorship and democracy

International Conference on Martí, Juárez, and Lincoln in the Soul of Our America.

May 17-19, 2009
Monterrey, Mexico

Produktion und Reproduktion: Arbeit und Fotografie

Westsächsisches Textilmuseum Crimmitschau ISGV (Institut für Sächsische Geschichte und Volkskunde), [mailto]prade@saechsisches-industriemuseum.de[/mailto], Crimmitschau 24.04.2009-25.04.2009, Westsächsisches Textilmuseum Crimmitschau, Leipziger Straße 125, 08451 Crimmitschau
Deadline: 15.04.2009

Call for Authors: ABC-CLIO, Labor History

ABC-CLIO,the leading publisher of academic reference works, is developing a comprehensive 21-volume Encyclopedia of World History. We are seeking interested scholars to prepare 500-1500 word articles on the impact of economics and trade on world history.

Announcement:
Establishment of a Young Scholars' Network on the "History of Societies and Socialisms"

(German version below)

The Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA)
Invites you to
The 73rd Volunteers for Liberty
Reunion Program and Reception (1936-2009)
Brigadistas and Refugees: Crossing Borders With Capa's Mexican Suitcase
Sunday, May 3rd, 2009, 2pm

The Florence Gould Hall at the French Institute Alliance Française
55 East 59th Street (Between Park and Madison Avenues)
New York, N.Y. 10022
Program, Afternoon Tea Reception

More on the ALBA website >>

The Kate Sharpley Library website - [url]http://www.katesharpleylibrary.net[/url] - is now bigger and better. (The Kate Sharpley Library is dedicated to recording and restoring the history of Anarchism.)

The new design means you can now explore the website by author, translator or subject. Subjects include Anarchism, Lives (for biographies, autobiographies and obituaries), Reviews as well as events like the Paris Commune or Spanish Revolution and Ciil War.