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Library of Congress By focusing on Lincoln’s strategic compromises, Spielberg’s film obscures the work of the abolitionists who made Lincoln’s victory possible through actions and meetings such as the one publicized in this 1850 broadsheet from Salem, Ohio. More

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Library of Congress/John Vachon “I grew up as the child of a white activist in the Civil Rights Movement,” Greenberg writes. “At that time, to sit with people of different races was a radical act in the South.” More

Library of Congress Neoliberalism’s exaltation of market-centered values has created a distorted moral economy that elevates prosperity above all else. To resist this neoliberal turn, we need an analysis of how identity and class politics come together. More

The Best Congress That Money Can Buy by Khalil Bendib. Facing page: Khalil Bendib ( bendib.com ) More

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Left to right: Ho Che Anderson; Library of Congress/Warren K. Leffler; Creative Commons/Giobanny Ascencio and Raul Lemus; Creative Commons/Tony Fischer; Library of Congress/Ed Ford; Creative Commons/OTFW Berlin What makes a person strong enough to risk his or her life for the sake of social More

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An early 20th century depiction of the Russian Jewry’s circumstances. Library of Congress More

Gloria Steinem at a news conference in January 1972. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Library of Congress. More

Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a joint session of Congress on May 24, 2011. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Avi Ohayun. More

Governor George Wallace, confronted by Deputy U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, while attempting to block integration at the University of Alabama. Library of Congress More

Creative Commons/Allie Caulfield/Zoltan Borbereki A 1970 statue by Zoltan Borbereki commemorates the involvement of the African National Congress in the struggle against South African apartheid. More

Kelly VanPelt and Morgan Elzey Rae Abileah (center) takes part in the Gaza Freedom March, a nonviolent mass protest in Gaza in December 2009. A year and a half later, she was injured by AIPAC volunteer lobbyist Stanley Shulster after protesting at Netanyahu’s speech to the U.S. Congress. More