U.S. history
AFT’s Weingarten talks back-to-school plans and threats to democracy
July 7, 2021Returning teachers this fall, she says, face ideological threats to their teaching and to democracy in general.
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Tulsa-Greenwood Race Massacre survivors tell of past destruction, continuing pain
May 30, 2021A 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.
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A National Day of Mourning for U.S. Indigenous
November 27, 2019Every 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.
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Remembering Sand Creek Massacre: The two soldiers who refused orders
November 23, 2016There were men who rejected the violence and genocide inherent in the “conquest of the West.”
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This week in history: Radical feminist Voltairine de Cleyre born
November 14, 2016One of the most prolific anarchist writers of her time, Voltairine de Cleyre was born 150 years ago, on November 17, 1866 in Leslie, Michigan. Her father named her after the famed French Enlightenment author Voltaire.
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