October 14, 2010 Director Stephen Spielberg deserves credit for bringing to public attention what historians used to refer to dismissively as “the Amistad incident.” It is the story of a group of Africans who were captured in Sierra Leone and brought in chains to the Americas — and who revolted, captured their ship, the… Read More »
SOCIAL NETWORKING
October 7, 2010 By Brendan Smith & Jeremy Brecher An article called “Small Change: Why the revolution will not be tweeted” by Malcolm Gladwell in the October 4, 2010 New Yorker poses an important question: What if anything is the potential contribution of web-based “social networking” to social movements and social change? The article’s… Read More »
HISTORY FROM BELOW: HOW TO UNCOVER AND TELL THE STORY OF YOUR COMMUNITY, ASSOCIATION, OR UNION (REVISED EDITION)
December 31, 1997 PREFACE: In an age when “how to” books deal with self-centered making out, whether in commerce or sex, Jeremy Brecher’s work is astonishing and refreshing; and, God knows, necessary. History From Below is an exciting primer, enabling “ordinary” people, non-academics, to recover their own personal and community’s pasts. At a time… Read More »
MARTIN LUTHER KING IN CONNECTICUT
January 15, 1997 In 1944, a fifteen year old Martin Luther King spent the summer working on a tobacco farm near Simbury, Connecticut. His experiences in integrated restaurants, halls, and churches made a profound and lasting impression on him. In letters only recently published, King wrote home: “Dear Father: On our way here we… Read More »