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The Lattimer Massacre occurred in September of 1897 in the anthracite coalfields of Northeast Pennsylvania. This tragic event saw the death of 19 miners, fired upon by local law enforcement and a posse gathered from local businessmen. This paper will situate this event amidst the deeply turbulent themes underlying the Gilded Age: race, American exceptionalism and Empire and labor struggle. A project undertaken by archaeologists from the University of Maryland seeks to restore the memory of the massacre, highlighting the implications of this history within the current anti-immigrant politics extant in its contemporary setting.
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Shackel, P.A., Roller, M. The Gilded Age Wasn’t So Gilded in the Anthracite Region of Pennsylvania. Int J Histor Archaeol 16, 761–775 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10761-012-0203-0
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