History

A Certain Schizophrenia

August 8, 2026 Patrick Lawrence, Consortium News. Strategize! Democrats, DSA, Elections, History, popular power

The Democratic Socialists of America have been feeling their oats of late, what with Zohran Mamdani’s election to the mayoralty of New York last year and a succession of D.S.A. victories in primaries across the country since then. On Tuesday another Democratic Socialist won a primary, this one in Michigan for a U.S. House seat. What right-thinking person does not wish these people well? But where is all this going? We all want to hear the plan. You have on the one hand reports that all these oats the D.S.A. is sowing have conventional liberals and mainstream Democrats in a state of high anxiety.

Light Show Defies Smithsonian History Removal Plan

July 31, 2026 John Zangas, DC Media Group. Resist! Fascism, History, Museums, Trump Administration, Washington DC

Washington DC—Third Act-DMV turned its projector lights onto the Smithsonian National Museum of American History (NMAH) late at night on Wednesday to highlight pressure to remove an history exhibit about tumultuous periods of the United States. The display focuses on the nation’s factual history of indigenous people, immigrants, enslaved people, and women, among other minority groups. It poses a basic question about the struggle of minorities to attain equality from the perspective of those adversely affected, during heightened periods of minority struggle to access the American promise.

Many Call Authoritarianism ‘Un-American’: History Shows Otherwise

July 19, 2026 Petala Ironcloud, Truthout. Educate! American Revolution, Authoritarianism, History, Native Americans

The United States turned 250 this year, and the document officiating its birth, the Declaration of Independence, is famous for its opening lines proclaiming the nation’s freedom from England and the rights of men. But Rebecca Nagle, a journalist and citizen of the Cherokee Nation, frames the document differently, describing it as a list of grievances growing in ascending order, where Native people, smeared as “merciless Indian savages,” are the founders’ biggest “problem.” This characterization rendered Native Americans as less than human and as part of the natural world, over which settlers believed they had God-given dominion, justifying genocide and land theft.

We Have Been There Before: The US-Iran MOU And The Algiers Accords

July 19, 2026 Sasan Fayazmanesh, Counter Punch. Educate! Algiers Accords, History, Iran, Memorandum of Understanding, Wars and Militarism

The Algiers Accords were signed at a time when Iran had the upper hand in dealing with the US. After many attempts at diplomacy failed to release the US personnel, the Carter administration launched “Operation Eagle Claw,” a covert military operation on April 24, 1980, aimed at rescuing its personnel in Tehran. The operation turned into a fiasco when severe weather in the Iranian desert city of Tabas and mechanical failures caused Jimmy Carter to abort the operation. Eight US service representatives died, one transport plane and one helicopter were destroyed in a collision, and five additional helicopters were either abandoned or captured by Iranian forces.

The Yippies And The Power Of Counterculture

July 11, 2026 Shane Burley, Waging Nonviolence. Strategize! Book Review, Counterculture, History, Radical activism, Yippies

Since President Donald Trump’s second inauguration, an authoritarian presidency has been accompanied by a brutal crackdown on social movements. While there are strikingly new features of Trump’s reign, many of the assaults on freedom and the persecution of activists have parallels in the histories of U.S. imperialism, the anti-Vietnam war movement and the New Left of the 1960s and 1970s, and the rise of the right in the 1980s. And many of the questions organizers are asking today were in debate then. How do you balance militant activism with the need to build a mass movement?

Confronting The Palestine Exception Of The American Historical Association

July 7, 2026 Juan Cole, Scheer Post. Resist! American Historical Association, Gaza, Genocide, History, Israel, Palestine

The American Historical Association (AHA) was founded in 1884, a time of continuing dispossession, displacement, and assault on Indigenous peoples; systematic discrimination and violence targeting Black, immigrant, and other marginalized communities; and when women were denied the right to vote. The early AHA was often complicit in such exclusionary practices, with non-US and non-European histories relegated to the association’s sidelines. Thanks to the intergenerational struggle of students and scholars to hold the AHA accountable to higher standards, the association has come a long way since.

Barack Obama, George Washington And The Fourth Of July

July 4, 2026 Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Barack Obama, Fourth of July, George Washington, History, Slavery

The 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence once again raises the issue of the lies that were taught as historical fact and how those lies impact Black people to this day. The July 4th celebration is the commemoration of the founding of settler colonialism, genocide, and enslavement but it is also a legal holiday that brings time off from work, fireworks, travel, and traditions of family gatherings and social events. Black people partake in all of these activities while knowing that the “independence” that took place on July 4, 1776 was nothing of the sort for their ancestors.

Why Many In Hawai’i Won’t Celebrate 250th Anniversary Of The US

July 3, 2026 Colonel (Ret) Ann Wright, Popular Resistance. Resist! American Revolution, coup, Hawaii, History

Even though it’s the 250th Anniversary of the founding of the United States, many in Hawai’i, the 50th territory to “join”/acquire U.S. statehood, will not be celebrating. When you better know the history of how rich and greedy U.S. citizens, many descendants of the missionaries from the 1830s, conducted a coup that overthrew the government of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1893 you will understand why for many in Hawai’I, both Hawaiians and settler-colonists like me, there will be no celebration on July 4th. Add to the coup, a go along U.S. Congress, similar to what we have today, that illegally “annexed” Hawai’i in 1898 through a “resolution.”

Gerald Horne On The Real Story Of American Independence

July 2, 2026 Elias Isquith, Black Agenda Report. Educate! American Revolution, History, Slavery, White Supremacy

With a sweeping and widely praised new essay on reparations in the Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates has challenged Americans to reconsider how they view their country’s history and to place the influence of white supremacy front and center. Rather than imagine the damages inflicted against African-Americans by white supremacy as having occurred mainly during the antebellum period, Coates asks us to recognize how Jim Crow in the South and redlining in the North denied black people the means to build real, stable lives for themselves, directly explaining the disproportionate poverty we still see in the African-American community today.

No One Should Be In Jail Because They’re Poor

July 2, 2026 Jeremy Cherson, In These Times. Organize! Bail Reform, History, Mass Incarceration, Poverty, Prison

It was a chilly spring day when Nicole, now a 31-year-old medical social worker in Tulsa, Oklahoma, opened an unsolicited letter from a criminal defense attorney. The letter informed her that she had been charged with a felony and might have a warrant for her arrest. Nicole had never had a run-in with the law. A single mother of three, she had spent her career helping others navigate the very systems she now found herself caught in. An eyewitness to a robbery had identified her as a suspect. Soon after, she was formally charged. A judge set her bail at $50,000.

Japan’s Volunteer Labour Bank

June 23, 2026 Mari Nishitani, Grassroots Economic Organizing. Create! Community, History, Japan, Mutual Aid, Volunteers, Worker Rights and Jobs

Teruko Mizushima is a founder of the Volunteer Labour Bank in Japan. If you are a time-bank enthusiast, you’ve probably heard her referred to as the creator of the world’s first-ever time bank. Have you ever wondered: how the “first-ever time bank” functioned? How big a thing was the time bank in Japan? Does Japan have a time bank as part of society now? This short article delves deeper into the story of the “world's first time bank.” Don’t worry! Her story will not disappoint you, and you will be even more fascinated with time banks by the time you finish reading.

The American Colonial Resistance

June 21, 2026 Jamila Raqib, Waging Nonviolence. Educate! American Revolution, Economic Democracy, History, Independence

Nonviolent struggle has a long and rich history, and has been widely practiced in different parts of the world, by diverse populations, for different objectives. But much of this history has been neglected or ignored in favor of highlighting stories of violence and war. This gives people the false idea that the progress, human rights, and the democratic freedoms we hold dear were won through violence and war, and it is violence and war that they must use to conduct their struggles. One of the most historically significant nonviolent struggles in the world took place right here in this country, long before the Civil Rights Movement.

The Hidden History Of Juneteenth

June 17, 2026 Gregory P. Downs, Black Agenda Report. Educate! History, Juneteenth, Slave Revolt, Slavery

One hundred fifty years ago, the U.S. Army took possession of Galveston Island, a barrier island just off the Texas coast that guards the entrance to Galveston Bay, and began a late-arriving, long-lasting war against slavery in Texas. This little-known battle would endure for months after the end of what we normally think of as the Civil War. This struggle, pitting Texas freedpeople and loyalists and the U.S. Army against stubborn defenders of slavery, would become the basis for the increasingly popular celebrations of Juneteenth, a predominantly African-American holiday celebrating emancipation on or about June 19th every year.

Crushed 1891 Strike By Black Farmer Cooperatives Holds Keys To Economic Justice

June 17, 2026 Shivank Pandey, Nonprofit Quarterly. Create! Black Farmers, Cooperatives, History, Strike, The South, Unions

Houston County, TX, December 11, 1886. Sixteen Black men gathered on a farm and started something that would grow into one of the most ambitious economic organizing efforts in US history. They called it the Colored Farmers’ National Alliance and Cooperative Union (CFNACU). Within five years, it had spread across the South and claimed 1.2 million members. Then, in 1891, it was violently destroyed. Most Americans have never heard of it. That is exactly the problem. Jessica Gordon Nembhard, a political economist and scholar of Black cooperative economics, described this endeavor in an interview with NPQ.

Defending the Cuban Revolution’s Record Against Ahistorical Attacks

June 4, 2026 Sam E. Anderson, Black Agenda Report. Strategize! Cuba, History, Revolution, Social Media, US Imperialism

A new front has opened in the long-running information war against Cuba. It is not being fought with overt political tracts or state-sponsored media, but with sleekly edited Instagram Reels and TikTok carousels. The antagonists are not the traditional counterrevolutionaries of Miami, but a cohort of young, predominantly Black, self-styled influencers operating under the diffuse banner of the pseudo “Black left”—a space where anarchist critiques of the state and cultural nationalist laments over racial injustice converge.

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