Crucial movements of the past with clear and radical demands suffered a diminished voice when traditional organizational standards took hold. Hopefully not Occupy.
With the spread of political occupations to all 50 states today, lessons can be gleaned from past occupations for a movement that shows no signs of going away.
In his call for the United States to accept - and change - reality, former Mexican President Vicente Fox pointed to the history of prohibition and shifting popular opinion.
Thank goodness for the progressive era, the New Deal and the Great Society, and heaven (or the founders) help us if we allow the demolition of their gains.
People For the American Way FoundationApril 20, 2011.
David Barton is a Republican Party activist and a fast-talking, self-promoting, self-taught, self-proclaimed historian who is miseducating millions of Americans about U.S. history.
Memo to Tea Party: The major political battle during the American Revolution was over the proper uses of money and credit. Not getting government out of the economy.
Thaddeus Russell, Free Press/Simon and Schuster. September 27, 2010.
Russell's new 'Renegade History of the United States' recounts how prostitutes won virtually all the freedoms that were denied to women but are now taken for granted.
Glenn Beck keeps insisting that the Constitution is based on the Christian Bible, backed up by a fraudulent interpretation of an historian's 1984 study. Debunking below.
Author Tom Standage explains how food has been a weapon of war, an offering for peace, a force of development and imperialism and an organizer of societies.
