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James Green
James Green is a historian and the author of six books on American labor and radical movements, including Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America. Green received his PhD in history from Yale University and is a professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.


A Day in the Life of a West Virginia Coal Miner

Cave-ins, explosions, and hard, brutal work
January 25, 2016  By James Green
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