This Week in People’s History, Oct. 10-Oct. 16

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President Reagan sitting at his desk in front of an aerial photo of fighter plans on the ground in Cuba
U.S. to World Court: Drop Dead! (in 1983). ACT UP shuts down FDA (1988). Secrecy runs amuck (1973). Stars and stripes fly over Dixie (1863). GIs strike against Vietnam War (1968). SCOTUS prefers civil wrongs (1883). Athletes protest racism (1968).

This Week in People’s History, Oct. 3-Oct. 9

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A poster advertising the 1963 Freedom Vote in Mississippi
Exercising the right to vote in Mississippi (in 1963). Air travel revolutionized (1958). Feds can't prove their case (1918). Markets plummet (1973). A new way of walkin' (1923). Deadly influenza (1918). None dare call it mutiny (1971)

This Week in People’s History, Sept. 26-Oct. 2

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Police mugshot of civil rights activist Mary Hamilton
Racist judges get schooled (in 1963). School integration? No way (1958). A very deadly parade (1918). Prisoners of conscience (1943). Broadway says 'no' to racism (1933). No way to run a website (2013). Abolitionists unite! (1833)

This Week in People’s History, Sept. 19–25

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Thomas Nast cartoon of racist Georgians celebrating in 1868
Terror reigns in Georgia (in 1868). The First Great Depression (1873). First-ever Vietnam War protest (1963). The Redcoats are coming! (1768). A worthless piece of paper (1823). Nuke fallout treaty (1963). Deadly troop train (1918)

This Week in People’s History, Sept. 5 – 11

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A red Vice-President? in 1983. Prison farm deaths in 1913. West Bank atrocities film bombs in 1983. Who's not a percussionist? in 1953. Dixiecrats kneecap civil rights bill in 1957. Legal liability earthquake in 1973. Chile under the gun in 1973.

This Week in People’s History, Aug. 28 – Sept. 5

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Hurricane Katrina victims in New Orleans wading through waist-deep floodwater
Deadly weather in 2005. KKK run out of town in 1923. FBI informers mess up in 1973. The telephone industry discovers women workers in 1878. TV news is ready for prime time in 1963. Frederick Douglass frees himself in 1838. Ethnic cleansing in 1838.

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

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Cartoon of a Wanted Poster for Jesus, "Wanted for Sedition"
"First Amendment, what's that?" in 1918. GIs sit-in, go to jail in 1968. An invasion is an invasion in 1968. KKK run out of town in 1923. Lead paint deadly in 1983 (and it still is). Trying to outlaw war in 1928. March on Washington in 1963.

This Week in People’s History, August 15 – 21

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Photographic portrait of abolitionist Henry Highland Garnet
Debating the abolition of slavery in 1843. Klaus Barbie's friends in the CIA in 1983. Birth of a hero in 1913. If I Had a Hammer in 1962. U.S. meddling in Iran in 1953. The War on Poverty starts in 1964. U.S. meddling in Vietnam in 1963.

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

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Advertising poster for the documentary "People's War" about the Vietnam War
Documenting the Vietnam War in 1969. War crime in Yemen in 2018. Face-masks protect from pandemic in 1918. Hip-hop is born in 1973. White House report doesn't see race in 1938. Blowin' In the Wind dropped in 1963. Springfield Massacre in 1908.

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

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Monument for murder victims Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffit
Pinochet's men accused of Letelier murder in 1978. Dick Cheney's hypocrisy in 2000. Reagan's racist dog-whistle in 1980. Dixiecrats defend the poll tax in 1948. Chicago Freedom Movement in 1966. Birth of a hero in 1848. Toxic-waste emergency in 1978.