U.S. history – Page 2 – People's World

‘Civil War’: An American contest that has never come to an end

August 27, 2021 By Michael Berkowitz

That is one of the main takeaways from this project: Even historical fact has a hard time dislodging hardened, though discredited opinion.

AFT’s Weingarten talks back-to-school plans and threats to democracy

July 7, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg

Returning teachers this fall, she says, face ideological threats to their teaching and to democracy in general.

Tulsa-Greenwood Race Massacre survivors tell of past destruction, continuing pain

May 30, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg

A hundred years later our world is quite different, but police murders and the attempted Jan. 6 coup show racism is still the big killer in the U.S.

A National Day of Mourning for U.S. Indigenous

November 27, 2019 By Albert Bender

Every Thanksgiving Day, hundreds of Indigenous from across the country gather at Cole’s Hill, overlooking Plymouth Rock, where the Pilgrims landed in 1620 for the National Day of Mourning.

Remembering Sand Creek Massacre: The two soldiers who refused orders

November 23, 2016 By Billy J. Stratton

There were men who rejected the violence and genocide inherent in the “conquest of the West.”