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Kayla Schott-Bresler (History MA, 2013)

History Alumna Tackles the Challenge of Affordable Housing

August 11, 2017

The Pulitzer prize-winning historian Heather Ann Thompson is speaking with Julie Green, Chelsea Nelson, and Kelly Lytle Hernandez about mass Incarceration and the working class during the opening plenary session. Credit: Herman Gilman.

Labor and Working-Class History Association Holds Conference at the UW

July 28, 2017

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Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies

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