It was Abraham Lincoln who freed the slaves, not John Brown. In 1859, John Brown was hanged, with federal complicity, for attempting to do by small-scale violence what Lincoln would do by large-scale...
In the Mexican War, a skirmish between Mexican and American troops on the Texas-Mexico border led President Polk to state that American blood has been shed on American soil, and to ask Congress for wa...
In late April of 1971, several thousand antiwar veterans converged on Washington, to camp out, to lobby. As one of them said, It’s the first time in this country’s history that the men who fought a wa...
I told of Henry David Thoreau’s decision to break the law in protest against our invasion of Mexico in 1846, and began to give a brief history of civil disobedience in the United States.
Aucun changement fonctionnel ou structurel ne peut garantir une société parfaitement démocratique. Nous acceptons mal ce fait parce que nous avons été élevés dans une culture technologique où l'on pen...
In 1777 there was a women’s counterpart to the Boston Tea Party—a coffee party, described by Abigail Adams in a letter to her husband John: One eminent, wealthy, stingy merchant (who is a bachelor) ha...