Legal Action Without Protest?
Maybe, through protest, we can create a government that acts on its own for justice. Maybe, through protest, we can make protest obsolete. Maybe.
Tag: Activism
Hiya Norm, Where ‘Ya Headed?
History doesn’t repeat itself, but that’s not why we study it.
“Within the Forms of Law”: Politics and Activism, 1850s and Today
Activists have applied political pressure most effectively on the state and local levels. The fugitive slave crisis of the 1850s provides a historical roadmap for embracing formal politics as a means toward activist ends in the United States.
Freedom Summer was the Ultimate Protest Summer. It’s Time for Another One!
Recent efforts to weaken both public education and the Voting Rights Act show that it is time to try again.
Pragmatism v. Purity?: The Left and Elections
While Democrats are, at best, a corporate-dominated center-left party with a history of attacking its left flank, they represent the only viable alternative to the far right Republican agenda. Supporting Democrats, given the alternative, is important. After all, Democrats are the only other political party with real power in a system designed to accommodate the existence of only two parties.
Confronting History at the March for Our Lives
The messy realities of the past rarely make for the pithiest of signs. And the reality of private gun ownership in the United States is not that it enjoys the support of an eighteenth-century amendment, but that it enjoys the support of twenty-first-century legislative and judicial interpretations of that amendment.
Whose Children?: Mom Activism and Race in the Gun Control Movement
Moms Demand Action models itself after Mothers Against Drunk Driving. But to claim an inheritance from MADD is to also lay claim to their particular white suburban praxis, where the theoretically race-neutral title of “mother” works to mobilize women around the deaths of white children.
Call for Papers: The Activist History Review’s 2018 Conference on Power
The Activist History Review invites proposals for its annual conference on June 16, 2018, organized around the theme of power.
Editors’ Pick: Our Favorites from a Year of #ActivistHistory
Your demand that we live in an equitable society grounded in a sound understanding of the ways historic inequalities continue to shape the present gives us hope for a brighter future. Thank you!
Historians Activate!: The Year in Activist History
Our work as historians involves studying prior forms of exploitation, abuse, and inequality. Doing this work, we believe, requires that we struggle against their iterations in the present.
