Good News in History

By calling out complicity on the part of colleges, corporations, and the government in South Africa’s system of apartheid, student activists were able to show that demands for divestment could be a concrete and effective form of protest.

Though Frederick Douglass remains the most well-known abolitionist to visit Ireland in the decades prior to the American Civil War, he was not the only one.

What can the past tell us about healing the nation? Specifically, how can we address divisions along race, class, and political lines?

An African American philosopher explores the role religious pluralism played in King’s fight for civil rights in the United States — and for peace around the world.

Three particular works from 1957 to 1967 illustrate how King’s political thought evolved from a hopeful reformer to a radical critic.

She sought to have her entire empire inoculated. Catherine is quoted as saying, “My objective was, through my example, to save from death the multitude of my subjects who, not knowing the value of this technique, and frightened of it, were left in danger.”