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Aidan McRae Thomson “At the Great Mosque, there are tourist brochures from which it seems clear that Spain would love to forget its Muslim (and Jewish) past,” the author writes. More

Creative Commons/Department of Defense The third great resurgence of the American Left took place in the 1960s, with the emergence of the civil rights, feminist, and anti-war movements. Here, a demonstrator offers a flower to a military police officer in 1967. More

Creative Commons/Walter Arts Museum A ceramic wall tile from the seventeenth century depicts the Great Mosque in Mecca and instructs Muslims to travel there. More

Creative Commons/Timor Espallargas When Spanish Catholics seized Córdoba in 1236, they built a cathedral in the middle of its Great Mosque. Today, guards still enforce the centuries-old ban on Muslim prayer inside the mosque. More

Owen Smith, San Francisco Arts Commission, 2010 ( owensmithart.com ) “Think of American history as a suspension bridge that rests on . . . three great long-term crises,” Zaretsky writes, identifying slavery, industry, and finance as the sources of crisis. Building the Iron Horse by Owen Smith. More

Creative Commons/Cecil Stoughton, WHPO Instead of interpreting President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society wholly as a victory, the theorists of corporate liberalism proposed that its apparent reforms were canny ploys by capitalists looking to buy off the restive working class. More

Zelig Golden ( wildernesstorah.org ) How do we apply our personal experiences of teshuvah to a Great Turning—a broader social transformation toward justice and integrity? Here, Wilderness Torah participants gather in the forest to sing, meditate, and tap into Judaism’s earth-based roots. More

Olivia Wise ( oliviawisestudio.com ) “What was sexual liberation for one generation became, in some ways, oppression for the next,” Ana Levy‐Lyons writes. “At the end of the long, bloodstained road of struggle for women’s freedom . . . is the great shining beacon really Miley Cyrus?” Illustration More

White House/Pete Souza Obama pays a surprise visit to the Boys and Girls Club of Cleveland in 2012. “Obama won in great part because he prevailed overwhelmingly among . . . oppressed groups who rejected the Republican Party’s plutocratic (and often sexist, racist, and homophobic) vision,” Blum More