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The article reports on literature and several activities related to labor history which took place in the U.S. in 1992 and 1993. The Kansas City Labor History Tour was researched, and presented in October 1992, by the Kansas City Labor History Workshop, a group of union members and scholars working to retrieve the area's labor history. The 15th annual North American Labor History Conference will be held at Detroit's Wayne State University on October 14-16, 1993. Its theme will be "Labor, Citizenship, and the State." The 8th biennial Southern Labor Studies Conference will be held from October 14-17, 1993 in Birmingham, Alabama. The conference theme will be Race and Culture. One of the initial activities of the newly created Center for Labor Studies at the University of Washington is a series of working papers in Comparative Labor History. The Minnesota Historical Society's Publication and Research Division each year makes available grants of up to $5000 to support original research and interpretive writing on the history of Minnesota by academicians, independent scholars and professional and nonprofessional writers.