Workshop held Saturday, October 5, 2019 at the Historic Pump House. There are jobs today that pay a living wage with benefits, provide a decent retirement, and don’t require a college education. Union apprentice program leaders and other new workforce job...
Charles McCollester, past president of the Battle of Homestead Foundation. Keynote address: Pennsylvania Historical Association Annual Meeting, October 18, 2019, Indiana PA
On August 26, 2019, The Battle of Homestead Foundation labor supporters gathered in Natrona Heights, Brackenridge and Arnold Cemetery, Pennsylvania, to remember the one hundred year anniversary of the death of labor activists, Fannie Sellins and Joe Strazeleski, who...
The Battle of Homestead Foundation, All-Kiski Historical Society, United Mine Workers of America and the United Steelworkers sponsored the “Fannie Sellins Memorial Commemoration” on August 26, 2019. This all day event commemorated the 100th anniversary of...
To introduce the 2019 BHF program series, peoples’ historians Eric Leif Davin, Charlie McCollester, Jacqui Cavalier, and Howard Scott will spotlight the turbulent post-war era of 1919 USA. We’ll hear about Suffragettes on the march; immigrants’...
