Northwest History Tales

Mine-Mill Union members during the 1960 Bunker Hill strike The history of the Coeur d’Alene Mining District spans from the late 1800s to today.  The early years in the area have been well researched.  Historians such as Robert Wayne Smith documented early, often violent, efforts by miners to establish a union. [1]   These conflicts often observed governmental involvement that was nearly always in support of mining companies.  Stanley Stewart Phipps documented the rise of unio

In the aftermath of World War Two, the United States stood alone as the industrial giant of the world.  The aluminum industry had...

Are church and state at odds or bedfellows?  Many modern historians, politicians and others would have you believe that church and state...

What caused the Great Depression?  There are countless theories of what caused this plague upon America and the world, but government...

Harvey Firestone, Sr. was an entrepreneur who harnessed the wave of industrialization and the automobile to build a competitive, profitable tire company that rivalled any in the world.  The Firestone Company, his legacy, was groundbreaking in many ways.  At the same time, Firestone set the seeds of exploitation in Liberia when he gained a concession to establish a rubber plantation in one of two independent nations in Africa in 1926. [1] On August 13, 1900, Firestone and othe

Mark McVay, Liberty University Control of black labor in the Postbellum South is worthy of analysis because it served to support the...