The Coal Strike
The coal strike of 1919 is widely accepted by academic scholars and historians alike to be a pivotal point in American history pertaining to the…
Discovering 1919
Discovering Digital History
Category: Labor/Industry
Thompson sub-machine gun
“Chicago organ grinder”, “trench broom”, “trench sweeper”, “the chopper”, and “the annihilator” were all names given to a ruthless weapon that has been popularized in…
Seattle General Strike February, 1919
What happened? In 1919, workers organized unions all over the Pacific Northwest and the United States, increasing in rapid numbers. In the months leading up…
Browning Machine Gun
Armed on tanks during the First World War to the dense jungles of Vietnam, American soldiers came armed with some form of the M1919 30-caliber…
