To protest nuclear warfare, a group of eight Catholic and anti-nuclear weapons activists, including two priests and a nun, broke into a General Electric facility in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, poured blood on nuclear weapons, hammered at them with household tools, and gathered in prayer until they were arrested.
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Book — Non-fiction. Edited by George Theoharis and John Rogers. 2026. 304 pages.
A compilation of leading education scholars on reenvisioning and creating equitable, inclusive, and democratic public schools.
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When immigrant women working in the textile mills of Little Falls, New York, walked off the job, they began a struggle that has been historically neglected due to sitting between the Bread and Roses Strike and the Paterson Silk Strike on the timeline of labor studies.
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Joy Polley was a 27 year old Southside Chicago resident and teacher who challenged Chicago’s infamous dress restriction law, which was used to target trans and queer people, Black women, drag queens and kings, and unhoused people.
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Black students at Brandeis University occupied Ford Hall for 11 days and successfully negotiated the creation of one of the first academic departments of African and African-American Studies in the nation.
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Secretive saboteurs, known as Luddites, began breaking into factories and the homes of factory owners, targeting automated machinery for destruction and setting fire to the factories in protest of low wages and unsafe working conditions.
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Book — Non-fiction. Edited by Dara Walker, Alexander D. Hyres, and Jon N. Hale. 2026. 266 pages.
Documents the history of the rise of high school and youth activism in the United States since the Second World War.
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