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How the Daughters and Granddaughters of Former Slaves Secured Voting Rights for All

A look at the question of race versus gender in the quest for universal suffrage.
by Martha S. Jones via Smithsonian on March 8, 2019

Martin Luther King Jr. and the Meaning of Emancipation

He was a revolutionary, if one committed to nonviolence. But nonviolence does not exhaust his philosophy.
by Asad Haider via n+1 on January 18, 2019
Black Cross Nurses parade through Harlem in 1922.

And the Women Shall Lead Us

A new book shows how women's leadership in black nationalist movements has always been hidden in plain sight.
by Stephen G. Hall via Public Books on December 3, 2018

Prisons for Sale, Histories Not Included

The intertwined history of mass incarceration and environmentalism in Upstate New York's prison-building boom.
by Clarence Jefferson Hall Jr. via Edge Effects on October 23, 2018

The Militant Miners Who Exposed the Horrors of Black Lung

This grassroots movement brought occupational health to American labor, paving the way for the creation of OSHA.
by Jessie Wright-Mendoza, Alan Derickson via JSTOR Daily on September 25, 2018

Teaching the Rank and File

The history of the once-ubiquitous labor schools holds lessons for any future revival of working-class activism.
by William S. Cossen via Jacobin on September 24, 2018

The Briggs Initiative: Remembering a Crucial Moment in Gay History

The lessons from a critical California election in which voters rejected a virulently homophobic ballot measure.
by Trudy Ring via The Advocate on August 31, 2018
Two inmates survey the aftermath of a prison uprising.

Prisons and Class Warfare

A look at the evolution of the prison system in California.
by Clement Petitjean, Ruth Wilson Gilmore via Historical Materialism on July 25, 2018

What Gun-Control Activists Can Learn From the Civil-Rights Movement

The success of the 1963 March on Washington hinged on a confluence of factors that aren't yet present for demonstrators today.
by Julian E. Zelizer via The Atlantic on March 23, 2018
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Sanctuary-City Advocates Are Like Abolitionists – Not Secessionists

A history lesson for attorney general Jeff Sessions.
by Judith Giesberg via Made By History on March 6, 2018

Organizing for Change: The Genius of the First Earth Day

What we can learn from the successes of local activists in 1970.
by Adam Rome via Process: A Blog for American History on April 21, 2017

Informed Archives: The Environmental Action Coalition and the Birth of Earth Day

January 2017's Women's March wasn't the first time Fifth Avenue in New York City hosted an enormous demonstration.
by Meredith Mann via New York Public Library on April 20, 2017
Jo Ann Robinson's mug shot.

This Unheralded Woman Actually Organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Jo Ann Robinson is unfortunately overlooked by history.
by Keisha N. Blain via Timeline on January 19, 2017

Ronald Reagan Was Once Donald Trump

The Trump candidacy looks a lot more like Reagan's than anyone might care to notice.
by Frank Rich via Intelligencer on June 1, 2016
Cover of "Why Busing Failed," depicting anti-busing protestors surrounding a school bus.

Why Busing Failed

Getting the history of “busing” right enables us to see more clearly how school segregation and educational inequality continued in the decades after Brown.
by Matt Delmont via Why Busing Failed: Race, Media, and the National Resistance to School Desegregation on March 6, 2016
Photograph of two of the original organizers preparing for the first Earth Day (1970). At left, a woman holds up two advertisements for the event. In front, a man stares into the camera (Denis Hayes) while holding a phone.

The Fate of Earth Day

What has gone wrong with the modern environmental movement and its political organizing.
by Nicholas Lemann via The New Yorker on April 8, 2013

SNCC Digital Gateway

A documentary website that tells the story of how young activists united with local people in the Deep South to build a grassroots movement that transformed the nation.
by Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee via SNCC Digital Gateway on January 1, 2013
Ronald Reagan.

Conservatism: A State of the Field

Does recognizing the importance of conservatism in the twentieth century make us see the arc of American history in a new way?
by Kim Phillips-Fein via Journal of American History on December 1, 2011

Restarting the Civil Rights Movement

Is there still a civil rights movement?
by E. R. Shipp via The Root on December 19, 2010

Their Own Talking

Reconsidering Septima Clark’s life challenges many of our ideas about the Civil Rights Movement and women's roles in it.
by David P. Cline, Septima Poinsette Clark, Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Eugene P. Walker, Katherine Mellon Charron via Southern Cultures on June 1, 2010
Collage of protesters holding up signs against war taxes.

Could Tax Protests Defund the American War Machine?

Tax resistance has long opposed war and empire in North America, and could be a way to resist U.S. funding of violence in Gaza today.
by Lauren Fadiman via Current Affairs on March 18, 2025
Ken Martin and Ben Wikler at a DNC forum.

Ken Martin, Ben Wikler, and the DNC Chair Race’s Midwestern Moment

The region has unique political traditions tailor-made for the momentum gathering behind economic populism in the Democratic Party.
by Cory Haala via Clio and the Contemporary on January 31, 2025
ICE officers knock on the door of a residence.

Trump Is Drawing on Cold War–Era Repressive Tactics

A previous, dark period of American history paired ethnic exclusion through mass deportations and ideological exclusion through political repression.
by David Bacon via Jacobin on January 29, 2025
Faneuil Hall in Boston at night.

Why Faneuil Hall Is a Metaphor for the American Revolution’s Complicated Definition of Liberty

How a lively market on Boston Harbor became part of many defining moments of the Colonial and Revolutionary eras.
by Michael Snyder via Smithsonian on January 8, 2025
A collage of rats, trash, rat exterminators, and a rat mascot.

Rats!

Baltimore's long history with its most polarizing pest.
by Lydia Woolever via Baltimore Magazine on January 2, 2025
Portrait of Morris Hillquit.

When Socialists Run for NYC Mayor, Good Things Can Happen

Socialist legislator Zohran Mamdani is running for New York City mayor against a corrupt, unpopular mayor. Morris Hillquit did the same thing a century ago.
by Charlie Dulik via Jacobin on December 19, 2024
A sign reading "Ladies" above a doorway.

“The Relationship Between Public Morals and Public Toilets”

Christine Jorgensen and the birth of trans bathroom panic.
by Nikita Shepard via Nursing Clio on November 27, 2024
Barack Obama speaking in front of a museum exhibit titled "Writing the Constitution."

The Constitution and the American Left

A culture of reverence for the U.S. Constitution shields the founding document from criticism, despite its many shortcomings.
by Aziz Rana via Dissent on July 19, 2024
Barry Goldwater giving a speech at the Republican National Convention.
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The Republican National Convention That Shocked the Country

The pulsating anger in San Francisco 60 years ago became the party's animating spirit.
by Charles J. Holden via Made By History on July 17, 2024
A drawing of a crowd of people standing around the Wakasa stone in a crate.

The Recollector

How the Wakasa stone, a memorial to a Japanese man murdered in a Utah internment camp, became the flash point of a bitter modern dispute.
by Pablo Calvi via The Believer on July 11, 2024
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