00:08 Peter Linebaugh, emeritus professor of History at the University of Toledo, and the author of many many books, including The Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day ...
May Day, celebrated by workers across the globe as International Labor Day, falls on May 1. But you'd be forgiven if that's news to you. While the day traces its origins to an American laborers' fight ...
1: JUBILEE. Etymologically, jubilee comes from yobel, a Hebrew word meaning "ram's horn." Ever since, it's been associated with music, a horn, a comet, a trumpet, and later with singing. The cornet ...
In 18th-century Britain, most victims of capital punishment were hanged for property crimes--some as petty as the pilfering of spoons. A brutal and benighted age, we like to think, but to the author ...
Italian autonomist Sergio Bologna discusses the rise of Nazism and its relationship to the German working class. A critical and provocative exploration of the political, conceptual and cultural points ...
On the C-SPAN Networks: Peter Linebaugh is an Author with one video in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2014 Forum. Authors talked about their books on city planning. “Planning and ...