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I Pledge . . . Allegiance?
American law says schools must honor the Pledge of Allegiance. Schools may have other plans.
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Maggie Phillips
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Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
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February 4, 2025
From Street Gang to Revolutionaries
José ‘Cha Cha’ Jiménez and the Young Lords laid the groundwork for radical racial justice movements.
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Felipe Hinojosa
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Religion Dispatches
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February 4, 2025
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The Panama Canal Could Help Unify Trump's Fractious Movement
In the 1970s, a conservative coalition came together to fight ceding control of the Panama Canal—proving the political potency of the issue.
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Aaron Coy Moulton
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Made By History
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January 16, 2025
Protest and Politics
Two new biographies enhance our knowledge of John Lewis, the late congressman and civil rights hero.
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Jason Sokol
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Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
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January 15, 2025
The Mutiny of 1783
America’s only successful insurrection.
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Andrew A. Zellers-Frederick
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Journal of the American Revolution
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November 19, 2024
Hyperpolitics In America
When polarization lacks clear consequences, Americans are left with "a grin without a cat: a politics with only weak policy influence or institutional ties."
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Anton Jäger
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New Left Review
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October 31, 2024
Did the Witch Trials Ever Truly Come to an End?
Marion Gibson’s research rigorously traces the legal and human aspects of the trials through today.
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AX Mina
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Hyperallergic
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October 30, 2024
Reflections of the 60th Anniversary of Urban Uprisings in America
The media narrative used to discredit urban rebellions as violent betrayals of the civil rights movement has been attached to protests ever since.
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Heather Ann Thompson
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Black Perspectives
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October 17, 2024
How a Group of Revolutionary Anti-Racist Activists Planned to Fight the Klan in North Carolina
Remembering the lead-up to the 1979 Greensboro Massacre.
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Aran Shetterly
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Literary Hub
on
October 10, 2024
How John Lewis Put a Legacy of Heroism to Use
As the civil-rights era receded, his personal heroism loomed larger. But movement politics didn’t easily translate into party politics.
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Kelefa Sanneh
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The New Yorker
on
October 7, 2024
How Green Day’s American Idiot Pitted Punk Against George W Bush
Twenty years ago, a trio of Calfornian stoners released a polemic against Republican America that politicised a generation.
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Pippa Bailey
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New Statesman
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September 30, 2024
A Nation of Cop Cities
The push to build large police training facilities follows on a long history of armories as both symbols and manifestations of state power.
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Matthew Guariglia
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Inquest
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September 26, 2024
How Racist Policies Destroyed Public Housing and Created the American Suburbs
The systematic post-war displacement of communities of color.
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Tracy Rosenthal
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Leonardo Vilchis
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Literary Hub
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September 25, 2024
How the War on Terror Warped the American Left
A new book on how 9/11 altered the national psyche also demonstrates how it stunted progressive politics.
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Gal Beckerman
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The Atlantic
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September 10, 2024
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The Naked Quakers
Today, the international feminist group FEMEN uses nudity as part of its protests. But appearing naked in public was also a tactic used by early dissenters.
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Katrina Gulliver
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Jean-Pierre Cavaillé
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JSTOR Daily
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September 9, 2024
Week of Wonders
Twenty-five years ago, protesters shut down the meeting of the World Trade Organization. At the time, it seemed very important. But is it now?
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Doug Henwood
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The Baffler
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September 5, 2024
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Civics Skills: How the Supreme Court's Tinker Ruling Affects Students
An anti-Vietnam protest that resulted in the Supreme Court confirming that students are persons under the constitution.
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Retro Report
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August 22, 2024
How the 1968 DNC Devolved into ‘Unrestrained and Indiscriminate Police Violence’
As protesters prepare for the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, a half-century old report provides lessons for preventing chaos.
by
Lakeidra Chavis
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The Marshall Project
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August 14, 2024
My Time Organizing on Campus Against Apartheid in South Africa
Black internationalism broadened our politics of solidarity.
by
Barbara Ransby
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Hammer & Hope
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July 23, 2024
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Black Freedom and Indian Independence
Activists including W. E .B. Du Bois in the United States and Lajpat Rai in India drew connections between Black American and Indian experiences of white rule.
by
Livia Gershon
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Andrea M. Slater
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JSTOR Daily
on
July 5, 2024
No Atlanta Way
Stop Cop City meets the establishment.
by
Sam Worley
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The Drift
on
June 28, 2024
Trinity Fallout
The U.S. government’s failure to recognize nuclear Downwinders in New Mexico is part of a broader failure to reckon with the legacies of the Manhattan Project.
by
Nora Wendl
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Places Journal
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June 18, 2024
The Decline of Streaking
Naked runners used to disrupt events seemingly all the time. Why’d they stop?
by
Michael Waters
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The Atlantic
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June 13, 2024
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We Must Remember Tuscaloosa's 'Bloody Tuesday'
Black citizens fought for justice and were met with violence. They persevered.
by
John M. Giggie
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Made By History
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June 7, 2024
Connecting with Trans History, Rebellion, and Joy, in “Compton’s 22”
Transgender people's reactions to watching oral histories of the legacy of a 1966 riot in the Tenderloin that was nearly lost to history.
by
Drew de Pinto
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The New Yorker
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June 5, 2024
False Prophet
Meir Kahane's legacy in Israel and America.
by
John Ganz
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Unpopular Front
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May 10, 2024
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Campus Protests Are Called Disruptive. So Was the Civil Rights Movement
Like student protesters today, Martin Luther King Jr. and other 1960s civil rights activists were criticized as disruptive and disorderly.
by
Jeanne Theoharis
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Made By History
on
May 9, 2024
Reviving the Language of Empire
On revisiting the anti-imperialism of the 1960s and ’70s amid the return of left internationalism.
by
Aziz Rana
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Nora Caplan-Bricker
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Jewish Currents
on
May 9, 2024
May Day is a Rust Belt Holiday
Forged in the cauldron of Chicago’s streets and factories, born from the experience of workers in the mills and plants of Detroit, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland.
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Ed Simon
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Belt Magazine
on
April 29, 2024
Brando Unmatched
The legendary actor left a mark in both film history and an industry fraught with self-regard.
by
Giancarlo Sopo
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The Dispatch
on
April 27, 2024
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