History

Power Up!Corita Kent was a radical educator, silkscreen printing pop artist, and activist agitator whose pedagogical and…

Jamal Joseph, formerly known as Eddie Joseph, was on track to graduate from high school and begin a college education at…

As the only girl and the only Native America to journey with Lewis and Clark and co. through the wild and unfamiliar…

International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union: “We’d rather starve quick than starve slow.”The ILGWU was a driving…

Elizabeth “Mum Bett” Freeman of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, was the first slave to win her freedom in court on human…

This history gives us the colorful backstory of the all-time bestselling commercial game in the world: Monopoly. Over…

“There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.” —Octavia E. Butler  Groundbreaking science fiction…

Black women have conquered sports, innovated the arts, and even been to space! And whether you're familiar with the…

When Henry Ford and Thomas Edison proposed to transform one of the country’s poorest regions into a dream…

Did you know that the equating of sex/gender is actually pretty new in terms of history? And that the biological…

You'll get the low-down on America's fascination with fake facts and imaginative worlds/narratives from the last 5…

Today the social, environmental, and political stakes are larger than ever, but so is the impact activists can have.…

Amazon’s sprawling network of delivery hubs, data centers, and corporate campuses epitomizes a land where winner and…

Covering the early years of 1981-1983, Hip Hop has made a big transition from the parks and rec rooms to downtown clubs…

A big, super-nice, full-color comics anthology with all kinds of stories of stupendous queerness. Learn about some…

When legendary artist R. Crumb discovered the Bible to be “a text so great and so strange that it lends itself…

It was the autumn of 1969. Thousands of American Indians occupied the abandoned remains of Alcatraz, the federal…

Since the early 1980s, ADAPT has been a national network of activists with disabilities that employs nonviolent civil…

In 1968 the Brown Berets organized a massive student walk out in East LA, demanding equality in schools for Chicanx…

In 1911, the Kalamazoo Corset Company was the largest manufacturer of women’s corsets in the world. In spring of 1912,…

This Celebrate People’s History poster honors Jewish involvement in anti-colonial struggles. The Israeli Socialist…

This is definitely one of the most beautiful Celebrate People's History posters yet! An amazing block print celebrating…

Sylvia Ray Rivera is back in all her glory. Sylvia, a Puerto Rican and Venezuelan transwoman from New York City, was a…

Protect Mauna Kea. The new wave of aloha ‘āina defends sacred land from scientific imperialism. No to TMT. Printed at…

Beginning in 1791 and lasting through 1804, the Haitian Revolution was the only slave revolt in the "New World" to turn…

The International Hotel was a low-income residential hotel that became the most dramatic housing-rights battleground in…

In April 1921, the Seki Ran Kai (Red Waves Society) was formed with socialism as its goal. It was the first…

August 10 is Prison Justice Day. PJD started in Canada in 1976 to pay tribute to prisoners who died in prison. On this…

On December 11, 1921, propelled by the need to feed their children and outraged at Kansas’s new antilabor legislation,…

Chico Mendes, a rubber tapper and union organizer deep in Amazon rainforest, pioneered the combination of environmental…