The execution of Peter Smith in Marshall, N.C., 1905.
Smith was allowed to make a public statement before being hanged out of sight of the crowd. By Rebekah Aycock In Lethal State: A History of the Death Penalty in North Carolina, Seth Kotch tells the history of the death penalty in…
Veterans of the anti-colonialist war against Spain (1863-1865) at a dinner organized by feminist educator Ercilia Pepín (third in the left row) in 1927. Source: revista Blanco y Negro. By Amaury Rodríguez Since the worldwide political upheavals of the 1960s, Caribbean and Latin American social scientists have expanded the production of people’s history or…
In the Abusable Past's latest installment of "What We're Reading," Durba Mitra (Assistant Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard) talks with…
Growing Barn// Photograph copyright and by courtesy of Sean Sprague. All rights reserved. A Conversation between Alex Blanchette and Gabriel N. Rosenberg All photographs copyright and by courtesy of Sean Sprague. All rights reserved. Alex Blanchette is an associate…
Honolulu Chinatown Fire of 1900. Photo by Gabriel Bertram Bellinghausen, via wikicommons By Michael G. Vann As individuals around the world faced unprecedented government ordered lockdowns to flatten the curve of spread of COVID-19, many of us…
Photo by Aren Aizura Compiled by the Abusable Past Collective The co-editors at the Abusable Past have compiled this list to provide readers with quick access to collected resources…
a locked reading room at the National Archives of India Records Centre, Puducherry (Photo by Jecca Namakkal) By Sneha Krishnan Writing in the Atlantic in 1945, Vannevar Bush, who headed the US Office of Scientific Research and Development during World War II,…
By Arlen Austin, Beth Capper, and Tracey Deutsch This microsyllabus explores the activist and intellectual production of the International Wages for Housework (WfH) movement as…
A meeting of Aymara mothers as part of ayllu reconstitution efforts in Ilata, Bolivia, 1985. The group is ritually sharing and chewing coca leaves, which are spread out in the center of the gathering. Courtesy of the Andean Oral History Workshop.
What We’re Reading
BY BENJAMIN DANGL Grassroots people’s movements around the globe have wielded histories of resistance as tools in their struggles to build a better world. Some…
Street art in Kerala, December 2019. Compiled by Swati Chawla, Jessica Namakkal, Kalyani Ramnath, and Lydia Walker India’s controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) was signed into law on Friday, December 12th,…