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Archive of Popular American MusicThe UCLA Music Library's Archive of Popular American Music is a research collection covering the history of popular music in the United States from 1790 to the present. The collection, fully accessible at the item level ...
ibiblio.orgThe public's library and digital archive.
Home to one of the largest "collections of collections" on the Internet, ibiblio.org is a conservancy of freely available information, including software, music, literature, art...
National Archives of the United StatesAs the nation's record keeper, it is our vision that all Americans will understand the vital role records play in a democracy, and their own personal stake in the National Archives. Our holdings and diverse programs will...
National Museum of American HistoryThe Smithsonian's National Museum of American History dedicates its collections and scholarship to inspiring a broader understanding of our nation and its many peoples. We create opportunities for learning, stimulate ima...
National Museum of the American IndianThe Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian is a museum dedicated to the life, languages, literature, history and arts of the native peoples of the Western Hemisphere. It was established in 1989 through an A...
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Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural AddressArticle
1865
The speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln at his inauguration at the start of his second term as president.
Bonus ArmyConnexipedia Article
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1932
The Bonus Army was the popular name of an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers—17,000 World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups—who gathered in Washington, D.C., in the spring and summ...
Brown, JohnConnexipedia Article
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American abolitionist who advocated and practiced armed insurrection as a means to end slavery. (1800-1859).
COINTELPROConnexipedia Article
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A series of covert, and often illegal, projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at investigating and disrupting dissident political organizations within the ...
Darrow, ClarenceConnexipedia Article
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American lawyer civil libertarian. (1857-1938).
Destroying the CommonsHow the Magna Carta Became a Minor Carta
Chomsky, Noam
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2012
TomDispatch
Our rights and liberties and under ever-increasing attack.
Freedom ridesConnexipedia Article
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Freedom Riders were Civil Rights activists who rode on interstate buses into the segregated southern United States.
Jim Crow lawsConnexipedia Article
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Were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965.
Lincoln, AbrahamConnexipedia Article
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President of the United States during the American Civil War. (1809-1865).
Lincoln's Contested LegacyKunhardt, Philip B. III
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SteveCotler.com
Great Emancipator or unreconstructed racist? Defender of civil liberties or subverter of the Constitution? Each generation evokes a different Lincoln. But who was he?
Little Rock Central High SchoolConnexipedia Article
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The site of forced school desegregation during the American Civil Rights Movement.
My Lai MassacreSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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The My Lai Massacre was the mass murder conducted by a unit of the U.S. Army on March 16, 1968 of 347–504 unarmed citizens in South Vietnam, all of whom were civilians and a majority of whom were wo...
Nadir of American race relationsSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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The "nadir of American race relations" refers to the period in United States history from the end of Reconstruction through the early 20th century, when racism is deemed to have been worse than in any...
Nativism (politics)Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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Nativism favors the interests of certain established inhabitants of an area or nation as compared to claims of newcomers or immigrants. It may also include the re-establishment or perpetuation of such...
New DealSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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The New Deal was a series of economic programs passed by the U.S. Congress during the first term of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President of the United States, from 1933 to 1938. The programs were resp...
On Translating Securityspeak into EnglishIn the Land of False Cognates
Carson, Kevin
Article
2012
CounterPunch
The Security State has its own language: Securityspeak. Like Newspeak, the ideologically refashioned successor to English in Orwell’s “1984,” Securityspeak is designed to obscure meaning and conceal t...
Paine, ThomasConnexipedia Article
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Author, pamphleteer, radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary. (1737-1809).
Reconstruction era of the United StatesSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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In the history of the United States, Reconstruction Era has two uses; the first covers the entire nation in the period 1865-1877 following the Civil War; the second one, used in this article, covers t...
Red Shirts (Southern United States)Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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The Red Shirts or Redshirts of the Southern United States were paramilitary groups in the 19th century, active primarily after the formal Reconstruction era of the United States. They first arose in M...
Red Summer of 1919Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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Red Summer describes the bloody race riots that occurred in the United States during the summer and early autumn of 1919. In most instances, whites attacked African Americans in more than two dozen Am...
Riding the railSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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Riding the rail (also called running out of town on a rail) was a punishment in Colonial America in which a man (rarely a woman) was made to straddle a fence rail (usually the triangular split-rail ra...
Rolling Back ReconstructionAgainst The Current vol. 159
Miah, Malik
Article
2012
Against The Current
The 'Reconstruction Amendments” — the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the United States Constitution — are targeted in many of the Tea Party and far-right Republican campaigns against the rights of ...
Sedition Act of 1918Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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The Sedition Act of 1918 was an Act of the United States Congress signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson on May 16, 1918. It forbade the use of "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language...
Seeds of FireA People's Chronology
Diemer, Ulli
Article
2012
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Recalling events that happened on this day in history. Memories of struggle, resistance and persistence.
Sexual revolution in 1960s AmericaConnexipedia Article
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Attitudes to a variety of issues changed, sometimes radically, throughout the decade. The urge to 'find oneself' the activsm of the 1960's and the quest for autonomy were characterised by the changes ...
Slavery in the United StatesSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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Slavery in the United States was a form of unfree labor which existed as a legal institution in North America for more than a century before the founding of the United States in 1776, and continued mo...
SNCC's 50-Year LegacyEl-Amin, Theresa
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2010
Against the Current
Celebrating SNCC's legacy.
Stand in the Schoolhouse DoorSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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The Stand in the Schoolhouse Door took place at Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama on June 11, 1963. George Wallace, the Governor of Alabama, in a symbolic attempt to keep his inaugural pr...
Student Nonviolent Coordinating CommitteeConnexipedia Article
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One of the principal organizations of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
Tarring and featheringSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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Tarring and feathering is a physical punishment, used to enforce unofficial justice.
Union LeagueSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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A Union League is one of a number of organizations established starting in 1862, during the American Civil War to promote loyalty to the Union side and the policies of Abraham Lincoln.
The War of Northern AggressionOakes, James
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2012
Jacobin Magazine
A leading Civil War historian challenges the new orthodoxy about how slavery ended in America.
Weather Underground OrganizationConnexipedia Article
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An American radical left organization.
White LeagueSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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The White League was a white paramilitary group started in 1874 that operated to turn Republicans out of office and intimidate freedmen from voting and political organizing. Its first chapter in Grant...
Zinn, HowardConnexipedia Article
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American historian, political scientist, social critic, activist and playwright. (1922-2010).
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In a Time of TormentStone, I.F.
Book
1968
Independent journalist I.F. Stone on the events and issues of the 1960s.
The Man Who Recorded the World A Biography of Alan Lomax
Szweed, John
Book
2011
Documentarian of the folk culture of American life,, Lomax was diligent and tireless in preserving the irreplaceable vernacular cultures that have fallen into the past.
Polemics and Prophecies 1967-1970Stone, I.F.
Book
1972
An anthology of I.F. Stone's articles from 1967 - 1970.
The Radical CameraNew York's Photo League, 1936-1951
Klein, Mason
Book
2011
Artists in 'the Photo League', active from 1936 to 1951, were known for capturing sharply revealing, compelling moments from everyday life.
Uncovering the SixtiesLife and Times of the Undergound Press
Peck, Abe
Book
1985
A book about the Sixties and how they were recorded by radical participants. It traces how movements and communities convinced that their news did not fit into the agenda of mainstream media covered t...
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