It is a common practice with historians focusing on particular regions to isolate them for the sake of study or focus. In many instances, this is important to understanding that particular region and its development. In others, it can be counterproductive, because the relationship between that ...

It amazes me. People still remind me of our broadcasting beginnings way back during my first years as a humble professor at Michigan Tech (year not recalled – but at least around the 50s after a stint in the military and ready to turn a new page in the Groves of Academe). No official ...

I skipped Christmas this year, not the actual holiday, but by not writing a column about Christmas. As we age, we lose people around us, it happens to everyone, but for some reason this year I just didn’t feel the best. I was going to find a non-Christmas topic but just didn’t; but I would ...

The increasing interest in, and membership in, labor unions that began in the mid-19th century was by no means limited to the Lake Superior copper region. Nor was this growing trend restricted to metal mining. The topic was already being studied in the eastern coal mining regions in 1872. The ...

Ignore it and it will go away. on the surface, that seems to have been the collective thought of the Lake Superior copper mining companies during the first decade of the 20th century as attempts at organizing labor began across the mining region. In the copper region, the labor strike of ...

By JESSICA DAMIANO Associated Press With a new year comes new trends, and the 2024 Pantone color of the year, “Peach Fuzz,” will be dictating many of them. What does this have to do with your garden? Everything. The Pantone Color Institute has been governing worldwide color trends ...