Pharaoh's Workers focuses on the archaeological site at Deir el Medina on the west bank of the Nile at Luxor. The workers who prepared the royal tombs and lived there in what has been called "the earliest known artists' colony" left a rich store of artifacts and documents throug…
Pharaoh's workers: the villagers of Deir el Medina
In one village in western Thebes, villagers worked for centuries on the Egyptian tombs and created timeless beauty. Lesko explores the known facts surrounding their everyday lives and their business partnership with the ruling class of ancient Egypt.
Introduction -- Anthracite mining -- The Lattimer Strike/incident/massacre -- A great miscarriage of justice and the growth of the UMWA -- Memory of Lattimer -- The 1997 centennial commemoration and the memory of Lattimer -- Deindustrialization and the new twenty-first-century i…
"On September 10, 1897, four hundred striking coal miners of Polish, Slovak, and Lithuanian descent or origin marched on Lattimer, Pennsylvania. There, law enforcement officers killed nineteen miners and wounded thirty-eight others. Paul A. Shackel confronts the legacies and les…
