Gabriel Kolko, Left-Leaning Historian of U.S. Policy, Dies at 81

By William Yardley The New York Times
“The New Deal illusion survives because it is a very useful to today’s Democratic Party,” Kolko wrote in 2012. “It needs myths, but if one knows the truth about it then we have the basis for understanding the essentially conservative nature of today’s Democratic Party.”

Dark days in the Electric Valley

Charles McCollester Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The Next Page: Dark days in the Electric Valley Historian and former chief union steward Charles McCollester revisits the little-known Westinghouse walkout of 1914