Erik Loomis is a professor of history at the University of Rhode Island and the author of A History of America in Ten…
Erik Loomis
Erik Loomis is a professor of history at the University of Rhode Island and the author of A History of America in Ten Strikes (New Press, 2018) and Empire of Timber: Labor Unions and the Pacific Northwest Forests (Cambridge University Press, 2016).
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