American Consumer Empire in Puerto Rico
Puerto Ricans were forced to become “Porto Ricans” – adopting Anglo customs and holidays all while subsidizing American profits – without the hope of equality.
Year: 2017
Dark Side of Jacksonian Democracy: Revolution and Racist Oppression
President Jackson and Trump’s particular brands of democracy share a streak of racist oppression and both inspired especially personal resistance movements.
‘Domestic Insurrections Amongst Us’: A Critical Historiography of Slave Flight in the American Revolution
These scholars have forced historians of all persuasions to take slave flight seriously. The historical canon will be better for it.
Exultations, Agonies, and Love: The Romantics and the Haitian Revolution
The impact of Haitian slaves’ successes fundamentally changed the ways in which imperial governments in Europe viewed enslaved Africans in their empires.
Undeclaring Independence: White Liberals and the Erasure of American History
The violence of imperialism was a daily occurrence. Our support for reparations for that violence should be as well.
Jeff Sessions vs. “The Secular Mindset”
On Independence Day, we commemorate the conception of a secular state, the only form of state that can accommodate a diversity of thought.
A Patriotic Day of Protest
Today’s activists would be wise to take a page from history and use the Fourth of July holiday to illuminate the ways in which American society is becoming ever more unequal.
Lost in the Flood: Young Earth Creationism from George McCready Price to Ken Ham
With Jerry Falwell, Jr. joining the White House task force on higher education policy, it is safe to say that the movement for young Earth creationism will not be dissipating any time soon.
Taxing Values: What Our Tax Code Says About Us
The intricacies of the Code are not simply byzantine rules meant to confuse and frustrate, but rather are the result of the best and worst impulses of how we, as citizens and human beings, treat one another.
Protesting Invisibility in Silver Spring, Maryland
Silver Spring, Maryland developed during the early twentieth century as a sundown suburb: an area covering more than ten square miles where racial restrictive deed covenants prevented African Americans from owning or renting homes.
The Activist History Review 