Sustained trade union organizing began in 1794. They've gained important protections for workers, but they haven’t always welcomed women, Black workers, and immigrants.

As historian Patricia Clavin documents, tension between Great Britain and the United States was at the core of the collapse of the 1933 World Economic Conference, where the British government’s ...

When he returned to the United States from a visit to China in 1895, immigration officials would not allow him to enter the country on the ground that he was not a U.S. citizen. By a vote of 6-2, the ...