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This Week in People’s History, Jan 29-Feb 4

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Image of the cover of the book "False Witness" by Harvey Matusow
‘False Witness’ (1955), East St. Louis Desegregates (1950), A New Deal Triumph (1940), Greensboro Students Lead the Way (1960), Sled Dogs and Mushers to the Rescue (1925), Apartheid’s Swan Song (1990)

This Week in People’s History, Jan 22–28

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Drawing of soldiers shooting demonstrators in St. Petersburg
The Long, Long, Road to Revolution (1905), ‘Can’t Nobody Lick Us’ (1940), Voter Suppression Meets Its Match (1965), Fluoride’s Safe to Drink, Period (1945), Designing the Trail of Tears (1825)

This Week in People’s History, Jan 8–14

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Image of a Alabama Educational TV presenter on set
Educational TV Gets Schooled About Race (1975), ‘It Was the Right Thing To Do’ (1930), Negligence Kills, But Only the Victims Pay (1860), Paul Robeson Is John Henry (1940), New Technology Remakes an Industry (1960), A Classic Ragtime Spiritual (1925)

This Week in People’s History, Jan 1–7

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Cartoon re carbon dating -- Lump of coal chatting with a diamond
Too Good To Be True (1950), What’s Worse Than One Palmer Raid? (1920), Protest Genocide and Go To Jail (1895), Great Society=Great Hypocrisy (1965), The Big City's Calling (1920), A Writing Star Is Born (1935), Getting Elected Doesn’t Cut It (1920)

This Week in People’s History, Dec 25–31

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Cartoon showing the personification of "Congress" wearing a top hat using a bull whip to drive Liberty down the Capitol steps
No Free Speech on Christmas (1919), Killing Babies Is the Ugliest War Crime (1969), Can the Media Help Defend Democracy Again? (1974), Young Lords Speak Truth to Power (1969), A Highway to Nowhere (1949), Russia’s Leader for 25 Years (since 1999)

This Week in People’s History, Dec 18–24

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Residents of a concentration camp in the U.S. in 1943
Legalized Xenophobia Then and Now (1944), Gramsci’s Dialectic of Hope (1929), ‘Leaving on a Jet Plane’ (1969), Mass Deportations by the U.S. – in 1919?, CIA Lawlessness Exposed (1974), Will Boeing Ever Come Clean? (2019), Giving Peace a Chance (1914)

This Week in People’s History, Dec 11–17

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Photo of an Iraqi prisoner undergoing torture
Is Torture Really in the Eye of the Beholder? (2014), Winning the Fight Against McCarthyism (1954), Hands Off Haiti! (1929), The First Firefight Against King George (1774), Second City’s Amazing Alumni (1959), Wartime Hysteria at its Worst (1944)

This Week in People’s History, Dec 4–10

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A 1969 Black Panther Party poster by Emory Douglas
Black Panthers Under the Gun - I (1969), Teddy Roosevelt Gives U.S. Imperialism the Nod (1904), Racist Terror in Vicksburg (1874), Black Panthers Under the Gun - II (1969), Coltrane Lays Down a Masterpiece (1964), A Rocky Start for Gay Rights (1924)

This Week in People’s History, Nov 27-Dec 3

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A painted caricature of Japan's 1959 Prime Minister, Kishi Nobusuke
What Can You Expect from a War Criminal? (1959), The Battle of Seattle’s Unexpected Outcome (1999), We’re Not Raw Material, We’re Human Beings! (1964), A Brave Doctor Helps Lead the Way (1969)