In the first two decades of the 20th century, coal miners and coal companies in West Virginia clashed in a series of brutal conflicts over labor conditions and unionization that resulted in the "Mine Wars." The United Mine Workers of America had successfully recruited coal miners from Pennsylvania to Illinois and had established itself as one of the strongest unions in the nation. West Virginia coal operators, however, were notoriously violent towards workers' efforts to organize. The struggle for unionization included strikes, assassinations, marches, and the largest civil insurrection in the United States since the Civil War. Browse a photo gallery to see what it was like to work in the mines and live in these communities.
The Cancer Detectives tells the untold story of the first-ever war on cancer and the coalition of people who fought tirelessly to save women from cervical cancer—which was once the number one cancer killer of women.
The Cancer Detectives cuenta la desconocida historia de la primera guerra contra el cáncer y de la coalición de personas que lucharon incansablemente por salvar a las mujeres del cáncer de cuello uterino, que alguna vez fue el cáncer más mortal para las mujeres.
The story of the pioneering women who changed the world while flying it. Maligned as feminist sellouts, “stewardesses,” as they were called, were on the frontlines of a battle to assert gender equality and transform the workplace.
In the early 1900s, a struggle over working conditions of coal miners led to the largest armed insurrection since the Civil War and turned parts of West Virginia into a war zone.