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An Embattled President. A Mass Movement. A Military Used Against Citizens. We’ve Been Here Before.

The inside story of Mayday 1971 and the largest mass arrest in US history.
by Lawrence Roberts via Mother Jones on July 29, 2020

A Brief History of Dangerous Others

Wielding the outside agitator trope has always, at bottom, been a way of putting dissidents in their place.
by Richard Kreitner, Rick Perlstein via New York Review of Books on July 27, 2020

Protest Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment

The amendment didn't “give” women the right to vote. It wasn’t a gift; it was a hard-won victory achieved after more than seventy years of suffragist agitation.
by Margaret Talbot via The New Yorker on July 26, 2020

Ground Zero: The Gettysburg National Military Park, July 4, 2020

157 years after the famous battle, Gettysburg endured another invasion.
by Jennifer M. Murray via Muster on July 20, 2020
French military marching in practice for the Bastille Day Parade.
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The American Founders Celebrated the Storming of the Bastille

They understood that revolution means dismantling old power structures, violently if necessary.
by Zara Anishanslin via Made By History on July 14, 2020

The Question of Monuments

Despite our long history of interrogating the memorial landscape, no movement has been able to dislodge it.
by Kirk Savage via Lapham’s Quarterly on July 13, 2020

The US Suffragette Movement Tried to Leave Out Black Women. They Showed Up Anyway

Racism and sexism were bound together in the fight to vote – and Black women made it clear they would never cede the question of their voting rights to others.
by Martha S. Jones via The Guardian on July 7, 2020
Crowd of protestors, mostly men, outside of a building

A Summer of Protest, Unemployment and Presidential Politics – Welcome to 1932

The parallels between the summer of '32 and what is happening now are striking.
by James N. Gregory via The Conversation on July 1, 2020
Men with guns in street

How Tear Gas Became a Staple of American Law Enforcement

In 1932, the “Bonus Army” of jobless veterans staged a protest in Washington, DC. The government dispersed them with tear gas.
by Lauren Vespoli via JSTOR Daily on June 24, 2020
A photograph of Congressman John Lewis.

The Way of John Lewis

Cynthia Tucker shares her hope that a new generation of activists can learn from Lewis' courageous and peaceful fight for “beloved community.”
by Cynthia Tucker via The Bitter Southerner on June 23, 2020
Black and white photo of black child with his hands up, with police wielding weapons behind him
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The 1968 Kerner Commission Report Still Echoes Across America

Anger over policing and inequality boiled over more than 50 years ago, and a landmark report warned that it could happen again.
by Clyde Haberman via Retro Report on June 23, 2020
Demonstrators against police brutality.
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The Explicit Anthem of Anti-Racist Protest

Rap group N.W.A. understood vulgarity and controversy were necessary to draw attention to police brutality.
by Felicia Angeja Viator via Made By History on June 22, 2020
Lithograph of crowd gathering around a train.
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The Great Upheaval of 1877 Sheds Light on Today’s Protests

Spontaneous strikes led by the working class in 1877 resulted in violent clashes with police.
by Richard Schneirov via HNN on June 21, 2020
People at a Black Lives Matter protest

The Power of Black Lives Matter

How the movement that’s changing America was built and where it goes next.
by Jamil Smith via Rolling Stone on June 16, 2020

The History of the “Riot” Report

How government commissions became alibis for inaction.
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on June 15, 2020
Police officer behind yellow police tape.

Police Reform Won’t Fix a System That Was Built to Abuse Power

The history of American policing shows that it was designed to eat up resources and subjugate the civilian population.
by Stuart Schrader via The Nation on June 12, 2020
Protester holding a "Defund the Police" sign.

Defund the Police

Protest slogans and the terms for debate.
by Austin McCoy via Perspectives on History on June 12, 2020
Two posterboards covered in red handprints that read "Black Lives Matter" and "No Justice, No Peace."

Stop Comparing Today’s Protests to 1968

There are superficial similarities, but what we’re seeing now is something completely new.
by Thomas J. Sugrue via Washington Post on June 11, 2020

America Begins to See More Clearly Now What Its Black Citizens Always Knew

The present round of protest is different. The participants are people of every race, ethnicity, sex, age, and religion.
by Theodore R. Johnson III via National Review on June 11, 2020

One Week to Save Democracy

Lessons from Frederick Douglass on the tortured relationship between protest and change.
by David W. Blight via The Atlantic on June 5, 2020
Statue of George Washington with an American flag tied to his face to cover his nose and mouth, like a covid mask or a gag.

Direct Action and the Rejection of Monumental History

As people have gathered across the country to oppose police violence, they have targeted statues, monuments, and buildings commemorating white supremacy.
by Jacob F. Lee, Mathew E. Stanley via CounterPunch on June 5, 2020

It Really Is Different This Time

Two dozen experts consider the George Floyd protests in light of protests past.
by Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Keisha N. Blain, Mark Bray, Clayborne Carson, Lee Drutman, David Greenberg, Vanita Gupta, Mark Holden, Nancy Isenberg, Peniel E. Joseph, Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Michael Nutter, Omar Wasow, Will Stancil, Tressie McMillan Cottom, Walter Olson, Kay C. James, Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Heather Boushey, Corey Pegues, Christopher S. Parker, Simon Balto, Chuck Wexler, Abdul El-Sayed, Monica C. Bell via Politico Magazine on June 4, 2020

No Justice, No Peace

To understand the slogan's meaning, consider the words of Martin Luther King, who saw the riots of the 1960s as not revolutionary enough.
by Asad Haider via Viewpoint Magazine on June 4, 2020

10 Experts on Where the George Floyd Protests Fit Into American History

Many are looking to history for clues about how to understand the evolving moment. Here's what to know.
by Matt Delmont, Kellie Carter Jackson, Olivia B. Waxman, Simon Balto, Duchess Harris, Tyran K. Steward, Greg Carr, Ashley Howard, Jamila Michener, Philip A. Klinkner via TIME on June 4, 2020

Black Women’s 200 Year Fight for the Vote

For two centuries, black women have linked their ballot access to the human rights of all.
by Martha S. Jones via PBS NewsHour on June 3, 2020

Stymieing the People

A Review of "Design for the Crowd: Patriotism and Protest in Union Square."
by Thai Jones via The Metropole on June 3, 2020

How Today’s Protests Compare to 1968, Explained by a Historian

Heather Ann Thompson explains what’s changed and what has stayed the same.
by Dylan Matthews, Heather Ann Thompson via Vox on June 2, 2020

Confederate Monuments Haunt American Democracy

Why Southerners protesting structural racism in the criminal justice system have turned time and again to the monuments in their communities.
by Karen L. Cox via CNN on June 1, 2020
Drawing of four red fists intersecting the U.S. Capitol building

The Rebirth of Red Power

The tribal sovereignty movement from the late 1960s never really ended. To find the future of the Native left, look to the past.
by Nick Martin via The New Republic on June 1, 2020

The Double Standard of the American Riot

The nationwide protests against police killings have been called un-American by critics, but rebellion has always been used to defend liberty.
by Kellie Carter Jackson via The Atlantic on June 1, 2020
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