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White nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the 'alt-right' clash with counter-protesters at the Unite the Right rally August 12, 2017 in Charlottesville, VA.
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When White Supremacists Strike, Police Don’t Always Strike Back

The long history of law enforcement's complicity in the affairs of right-wing insurgents.
by Dan Berger via Made By History on August 18, 2017

A Confederate Statue Is Gone, But the Fight Remains in Durham

The city isn't rushing to put it back up.
by Nash Jenkins via TIME on August 15, 2017

Hell No, He Must Go!

What anti-Trump protesters can learn from the successes, and mistakes, of the anti-Vietnam War movement.
by David Kieran via Slate on February 7, 2017
Public opinion poll data showing high disapproval of civil rights protests.

Black Lives Matter and America’s Long History of Resisting Civil Rights Protesters

The civil rights movement was not nearly as admired by white Americans in its own time as we imagine it being.
by Elahe Izadi via Washington Post on April 19, 2016

March of the Bonus Army

In 1932, twenty-thousand unemployed WWI veterans descended on Washington, DC to demand better treatment from the federal government.
by Radio Diaries via Radio Diaries on November 11, 2011
National Civil Rights Museum recreation of King's Birmingham jail cell.

Letter from a Birmingham Jail

Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 letter written from prison remains one of his most famous works.
by Martin Luther King Jr. via University of Pennsylvania on April 16, 1963
A protestor climbs the flagpole to remove the American flag during an Anti-Vietnam War rally in 1971.

Another Country: Visions of America

The rise of a violent authoritarian state under Trump unveils a deep uncertainty over what America is.
by Adam Shatz via London Review of Books on January 26, 2026
Striking workers march in San Francisco during the general strike, July 16, 1934.

The Citywide General Strike Has a Rich History in America

In response to the killing of Renee Good and the ICE invasion, the Minneapolis labor movement has called for a citywide general strike call in nearly 80 years.
by Fred Glass via Jacobin on January 22, 2026
Teenager holding a U.S. flag while scaling a flagpole.
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How a 1964 Student Protest Reshaped the Fight Over the Panama Canal

How a dispute between American and Panamanian high school students over which country’s flag to fly escalated into days of violence.
via Retro Report on January 22, 2026
Police officer looking at Viola Liuzzo’s car after the march from Selma to Montgomery.

From Selma to Minneapolis

On M.L.K. Day, the death of Renee Good calls to mind another woman who died protesting for the rights of others.
by Jelani Cobb via The New Yorker on January 19, 2026
Department of Justice logo on a wall.

Work in Progress: Resignations

DOJ civil rights lawyers' resignations after leaders' refusal to probe ICE murder echo past revolts as administrations tried to politicize the Division.
by Kevin M. Kruse via Campaign Trails on January 13, 2026
Collage photographs related to the January 6 Capitol Riot.

‘This Is Not a Peaceful Protest!’

A visual archive of Jan. 6, 2021, through the lenses of those who were there.
by Tom Dreisbach, Barbara Van Woerkom via NPR on January 4, 2026
Bonus Army veterans heading to Washington, D.C., on the outside of a freight train, 1932.

A Painful Paradox: Hoover and the Bonus March

How a president poised to lead a prosperous nation came to use the army against American citizens desperate for economic relief.
by Michael Liss via 3 Quarks Daily on December 30, 2025
The unveiling of the statue of Barbara Rose Johns

Statue of Black Teen Replaces Robert E. Lee at U.S. Capitol

Barbara Rose Johns was only 16 when she led a walkout in 1951 to protest horrendous conditions at her segregated high school in rural Virginia.
by Gregory S. Schneider, Laura Meckler via Washington Post on December 16, 2025
Disability rights demonstrators, some in wheelchairs, one with a seeing-eye dog
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How Activists Fought for Rights for People With Disabilities, and Made Them the Law

The long struggle for the Americans with Disabilities Act.
via Retro Report on December 12, 2025
U.S. Supreme Court

On the Sweeping Supreme Court Decision That Led to Widespread High School Censorship

A look at the long history of censorship in public school yearbooks.
by Kate Eichhorn via Literary Hub on November 25, 2025
A mural of Milton S. Hershey, the founder of The Hershey Company.

What Hershey’s Century-Old Philanthropy Reveals About OpenAI’s New $130 Billion Foundation

The parallels between two American nonprofits that control major for-profit corporations.
by Peter Kurie via HistPhil on November 13, 2025
Battlefield illustration by Keith Negley

What Was the American Revolution For?

Amid plans to mark the nation’s semiquincentennial, many are asking whether or not the people really do rule, and whether the law is still king.
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on November 10, 2025
Police officers on Alabama Street in Atlanta, Georgia.

Stop Cop City’s Deep Roots

For 150 years, Atlanta has endured racist policing that has served the interest of the city’s economic elite. The fight to resist this goes back just as far.
by Jonathon Booth via Inquest on November 6, 2025
The Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia.

A Free Black Woman, a Memorial to Enslaved Laborers, and the Battle Over U.S. History

How Charlottesville’s memorial landscape can help us understand — and combat — the White House’s violent plans to reshape the nation’s public spaces.
by Mabel O. Wilson via Hammer & Hope on October 31, 2025
The bronze statue of Confederate General Albert Pike.

Confederate Statue Torn Down During 2020 Protests Is Back Up In D.C.

The National Park Service announced its plan to return the refurbished statue of Confederate Gen. Albert Pike to a small federal park at Third and D streets NW.
by Joe Heim, Olivia George via Washington Post on October 28, 2025
Postcard of West Texas State College, 1946.
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The Most Integrated Institution in West Texas

What happened after West Texas State College desegregated its football team in the 1960s.
by Jeff Roche via HNN on October 8, 2025
Demonstratoars protest Donald Trump’s comments about Canada becoming the 51st state of the United States, March 22, 2025.

Anti-Americanism in Canada Is Nothing New — It’s a Tradition

Trump’s tariffs/threats have sparked boycotts and motivated voters north of the border, but Canadians’ desire to distance themselves from the US has deep roots
by Jake Pitre via New Lines on September 19, 2025
Mexican-Americans carry signs protesting the war in Vietnam.

The National Chicano Moratorium Anti-Vietnam War March and Ruben Salazar Inquest: 55 Years Later

The outcome to these three connected events remains ambivalent. Six decades later, many of the issues animating the moratorium remain as relevant as ever.
by Ryan Reft via The Metropole on August 27, 2025
John McCain stands in a crowd shaking hands in a Ukrainian city.

How Decades of Folly Led to War in Ukraine

For decades, US hostility towards Russia and continued NATO encroachment ever further into Eastern Europe have laid the groundwork for the current crisis.
by Michael A. Reynolds via Compact on August 15, 2025
A drawing of the Division Street uprising, depicting a barricade and Puerto Rican flags.

How Chicago's Division Street Rebellion Brought Latinos Together

In 1966, police shot a young Puerto Rican man. What followed created a blueprint for a new kind of solidarity.
by Felipe Hinojosa via Zócalo Public Square on August 13, 2025
Actor on stage on the cover of J. Hoberman's book "Everything Is Now."

Delicate and Dirty

Revisit the transformative moment in American culture through the lens of a new book about the 1960s New York avant-garde.
by Ben Arthur via Los Angeles Review of Books on August 7, 2025
A crowd of Iranian protesters burns photos.

The Islamic Republic Was Never Inevitable

With Iran’s theocracy under strain, a new history shows that its rise was mainly a stroke of bad luck.
by Arash Azizi via The Atlantic on August 5, 2025
Still from the "Last Temptation of Christ" depicting Jesus on the cross.

Among the Blasphemers

The ’80s I thought I remembered now feel very different to me.
by Gerald Howard via n+1 on July 24, 2025
Fiorello La Guardia

Lessons from La Guardia

Can Zohran Mamdani reshape New York—and national—politics like Mayor Fiorello La Guardia once did?
by Kim Phillips-Fein via Jewish Currents on July 18, 2025
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