history
How a marimba taught me a lesson in cultural patrimony
May 22, 2023People’s culture matters! And needs the people’s protection. The first time I learned this was in the 1980s Sandinista Nicaragua, but it’s universal, including here in the U.S.
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60 years after death, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn still scares the right
May 17, 2023Anti-communism wins in N.H. as Republicans destroy historical marker commemorating life of “The Rebel Girl.”
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Golden Rule Peace Boat visits Baltimore, bringing message of nuclear disarmament
May 11, 2023The same boat that went on a peace mission to the Marshall Islands in 1963 to stop U.S. nuclear tests is still plying the seas.
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First they burned books, then people: Lessons of the Nazis’ 1933 book blaze
May 9, 2023A Berlin memorial shows the horror beneath the surface and issues a warning for our time.
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New Hampshire Republicans want to erase Communist leader Elizabeth Gurley Flynn from history
May 9, 2023They’re targeting a historical marker erected last week in Concord.
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