Editorial Board

by Editorial Board March 17, 2017 1

March 2017

Kiss Me I’m Irish: St. Patrick’s Day and Irish-American Identity

Growing up in an Irish Catholic family, my family embodies many of the stereotypes one thinks of around St. Patrick’s Day. The cousins Patrick and Danny Boy. The fond childhood memories of pubs and Irish music, most often played by a family friend who immigrated to the United States and became, you guessed it, a police officer.

by Editorial Board January 27, 2017 1

January 2017 Spotlight On: Race

Occupation as Resistance: The Dakota Access Pipeline and American Indian Activism

When the water protectors (or, if you support the Dakota Access Pipeline, protesters, rioters, and troublemakers) formed the Sacred Stone Camp in April, they faced an insurmountable challenge: a semi-built, big corporation and bank backed, stakeholder supported “black snake” (or, if you support Dakota Access, pipeline) that was slowly creeping underneath their land and near their water source.

by Editorial Board January 20, 2017 0

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Welcome to the official opening of The Activist History Review

Everyone involved in TAHR is dedicated to a simple principle: that the past is relevant to the present. We hail from a wide variety of personal, political, intellectual, and disciplinary backgrounds both in and out of academia. The issues of today were formed historically, and the only appropriate solutions to those issues are ones informed by a comprehensive understanding of how they came to be.