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Student protesters at Columbia University in April 1968.

Reviving the Language of Empire

On revisiting the anti-imperialism of the 1960s and ’70s amid the return of left internationalism.
by Aziz Rana, Nora Caplan-Bricker via Jewish Currents on May 9, 2024
Pope Francis.

Whatever Happened to the Language of Peace?

Pope Francis is the only world leader who seems prepared to denounce war.
by Sohrab Ahmari via New Statesman on May 8, 2024
Students in a Kent State University classroom.

Decades After Kent State Shooting, the Tragic Legacy Shapes its Activism

The university where 13 student protesters were killed or injured during the Vietnam War era worries that other schools have learned nothing from its history.
by Jonathan Edwards via Washington Post on May 4, 2024
Police gather to clear a Gaza solidarity encampment at the University of Wisconsin at Madison on May 1st.

Anatomy of a Moral Panic

The repressive machine currently arrayed against campus protests follows a familiar pattern.
by Adam Haber, Matylda Figlerowicz via Jewish Currents on May 2, 2024

The Forgotten Lessons of Truly Effective Protest

Organizing is a kind of alchemy: it turns alienation into connection, despair into dedication, and oppression into strength.
by Astra Taylor, Leah Hunt-Hendrix via The Guardian on March 14, 2024
Indochina Peace Campaign organizers hanging out in Tom Hayden and Jane Fonda's backyard in Santa Monica, California, in 1974.

Tom Hayden and Jane Fonda, Capitol Hill Antiwar Lobbyists

In 1974, after years of grinding war in Vietnam had exhausted most of the antiwar movement, Tom Hayden and Jane Fonda came up with a new strategy.
by Michael Koncewicz via Jacobin on March 11, 2024
Martin Luther King Jr. giving a speech.
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The Problem With Comparing Today's Activists to MLK

Media coverage of the civil rights movement is a reminder that the deification of King has skewed public memory.
by Hajar Yazdiha via Made By History on January 15, 2024
Political cartoon of men interrogating anxious teacher and inspecting classroom materials.

Political Repression and the AAUP from 1915 to the Present

How can we most efficiently defend the imperiled academy?
by Ellen Schrecker via Academe on October 10, 2023
Injured reporter interviewing bloodied antiwar demonstrator

Seeing Was Not Believing

A new book identifies the 1968 Democratic convention as the moment when broad public regard for the news media gave way to widespread distrust, and American divisiveness took off.
by Eric Foner via New York Review of Books on August 30, 2023
Ernest Mandel

Ideological Exclusion & Deportation

Political repression through the suppression of free expression.
by Julia Rose Kraut via Harvard University Press Blog on May 12, 2023
Eugene V. Debs in prison garb holds bouquet of flowers and is flanked by political supporters.

The Presidential Campaign of Convict 9653

Can you run for president from a prison cell? One man did in the 1920 election and got almost a million votes.
by Thomas Doherty via The Conversation on April 18, 2023

A Known and Unknown War

Twenty years later, I am living through the making of the Iraq War as history.
by Michael Brenes via Contingent on March 20, 2023
Painting of a city surrendering to Napoleon.

Uses & Abuses of Military History

On the value of the discipline and its applications.
by Victor Davis Hanson via The New Criterion on December 23, 2022
Black and white photo of Woody Guthrie holding a guitar labeled "this machine kills fascists"

I've Got Those Old Talking-Blues Blues Again

The Folkies and WWII, Part Two.
by William Hogeland via Hogeland's Bad History on October 13, 2022
Image of theater proscenium with '1776' on the stage.ng

The '1776' Project

The Broadway revival of the musical means less to reanimate the nation’s founding than to talk back to it.
by Jane Kamensky via The Atlantic on October 13, 2022
Black and white photo of Eugene Debs being released from an Atlanta federal prison on Christmas Day, 1921.

The American Socialism That Might Have Been

Despite their minority status, the Socialists had been a significant force in American politics before patriotic war hysteria brought on an era of repression.
by Adam Hochschild via The Nation on October 12, 2022
A Vietnam veteran greets supporters and press outside District Court in Concord

The Second (and Third) Battle of Lexington

What kind of place was the town I grew up in?
by Bill McKibben via The New Yorker on May 1, 2022
People in Ukrainian subway station converted into bomb shelter with makeshift beds and kitchen.

The History of the Family Bomb Shelter

Throughout history, the family bomb shelter has reflected the shifting optimism, anxieties, and cynicism of the nuclear age.
by Thomas Bishop via Zócalo Public Square on April 18, 2022
US military pilots operating Predator drones from the ground control station.

The Forgotten Crime of War Itself

A new book argues that efforts to humanize war with smarter weaponry have obscured the task of making peace the first goal of foreign policy.
by Jackson Lears via New York Review of Books on March 31, 2022
Cover of Moyne's book, with the subtitle "How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War," in front of a desert landscape.

Not Humane, Just Invisible

A counter-narrative to Samuel Moyn’s "Humane": drone warfare and the long history of liberal empire blurring the line between policing and endless war.
by Priya Satia via Los Angeles Review of Books on December 3, 2021
Senator Gerald P. Nye

Merchants of Death

From the Nye Committee to Joe Kent, the fight against war profiteering is a constant struggle.
by Hunter DeRensis via The American Conservative on November 8, 2021
A drone flying low

Slouching Toward Humanity

Samuel Moyn contends that efforts to conduct war humanely have only perpetuated it. But the solution must lie in politics, not a sacrifice of human rights.
by Anthony Dworkin via Boston Review on September 16, 2021
A photo from the 1976 edition of the People's Yellow Pages shows the publication's volunteers assembled before the Vocations for Social Change office in Cambridge

Why The People's Yellow Pages, A Relic Of '70s Counterculture, Still Resonates Today

Fifty years later, The Yellow Pages stand as a testament to grassroots ingenuity and the radical idealism of '70s counterculture.
by Amelia Mason via WBUR on June 28, 2021
Yuri Kochiyama depicted in a Pop Art style panel of images

1921 Marks Anniversaries of Both American Exclusion and Inclusion

On the 100th anniversary of Yuri Kochiyama’s birth and the passage of the Emergency Quota Act, Railton explores inclusion and exclusion in US history.
by Ben Railton via The Saturday Evening Post on May 19, 2021
Yellow ribbon.
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The Many Meanings of Yellow Ribbons

The strange and convoluted history of why yellow ribbons became a symbol of the Gulf War in the 1990s.
by Linda Pershing, Margaret R. Yocom, Erin Blakemore via JSTOR Daily on April 26, 2019
Buzz Aldrin on the lunar surface with flag during Apollo 11.

50 Years Ago in Photos: A Look Back at 1969

Looking back at the year of the moon landing, Woodstock, and more.
by Alan Taylor via The Atlantic on February 13, 2019

A Century of American Protest

A side-by-side look at some of the political protests that have shaped American politics over the past hundred years.
by Eric Maierson via The New Yorker on November 5, 2018

The Dual Defeat

Hubert Humphrey and the unmaking of Cold War liberalism.
by Michael Kazin via The Nation on October 18, 2018

We Really Still Need Howard Zinn

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on why it's so important to tell the stories of people who have fueled social justice movements.
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor via Literary Hub on September 27, 2018
Tommie Smith and John Carlos raising their fists on the Olympic podium in 1968.

Be Realistic: Demand the Impossible

The revolutionaries of 1968 didn't succeed, but the world still needs turning upside down.
by Peter Linebaugh via Boston Review on August 1, 2018
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