Building a Working-Class Archaeology: The Colorado Coal Field War Project

Twenty-First-Century Historical Archaeology

“…188-221;McGuire and Reckner 2003;Saitta 2007). Ludlow was a tent colony built and inhabited by coal miners striking against the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company.…”

Auditing the War on Terror: The Watson Institute's Costs of War Project

“…At Ludlow, Colorado, archaeologists are working at a place where more than 12 thousand miners went on strike in September of 1913, which led to 26 people dead, including a dozen women and children. Archaeology at Ludlow brought publicity to the place and made public the conditions labor unions fought for in the past and are working for in the present (Larkin and McGuire 2001;Ludlow Collective 2009;McGuire and Reckner 2003;Saitta 2007;Walker 2000).…”

“Thrown Like Chaff in the Wind”: Excavation, Memory and the Negotiation of Loss in the Scottish Highlands

“…In this sense they have also, sometimes simultaneously, used their excavations to unearth hidden or "silenced" histories and thus produce more inclusive forms of public memory. Not surprisingly such research has often focused on slavery and race (e.g., Shackel 2003;Funari 2003), labor relations, and working class communities (e.g., McGuire and Reckner 2003;Shackel 2000;Smith 2006;Walker 2003), Indigenous groups (e.g., Scott 2003;Zimmerman 2007), rural communities (e.g., Jones 2010), protest camps (e.g., Marshall et al, 2009), sex-workers (e.g., Schofield and Morrissey 2005), and so forth. There is also a growing literature on forms of memory associated with traumatic or difficult experiences, such as displacement, war, internment, and political oppression (e.g., Macdonald 2008;Meskell and Scheermeyer 2008;Schmidt 2010).…”