History Is A Weapon:
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History Is A Weapon is a left counter-hegemonic education project.
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Our amnesia only
serves the masters
The Reason You Learned To Read
To 1776
The Diario of Christopher Columbus (1492)
"With Such People I Want No Peace" by Acuera (c. 1540)
Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies by Bartoleme de Las Casas (1542)
Letter of Francisco de Montejo Xiu (1567)
Who Is Your Mother? Red Roots of White Feminism Paul Gunn Allen (1986) ☉
Richard Frethorne on Indentured Servitude (1623)
A True Narrative of the Rise, Progresse, and Cessation of the Late Rebellion in Virginia, Most Humbly and Impartially Reported by His Majestyes Commissioners Appointed to Enquire into the Affaires of the Said Colony (1677)
Proclamation
of the New Hampshire Legislature on the Mast Tree Riot (1734)
Letter
Written by William Shirley to the Lords of Trade about the Knowles
Riot (1747)
Gottlieb Mittelberger's Journey to Pennsylvania in the Year 1750 and Return to Germany in the Year 17-54 (1754)
Thomas
Hutchinson Recounts the Reaction to the Stamp Act in Boston (1765)
Account
of the New York Tenant Riots (1766)
Samuel
Drowne's Testimony on the Boston Massacre (1770)
George Hewes Recalls the Boston Tea Party (1834)
Three Documents on Slave Revolts (1720 to 1793)
Four Petitions Against Slavery (1773 to 1777)
Joseph Clarke's Letter about the Rebellion in Springfield (1774)
African Slavery in America by Thomas Paine (1775)
A People's History Of The United States by Howard Zinn ☉
1776 to 1830
New York Mechanics Declaration of Independence (1776)
Common Sense by Thomas Paine (1776)
A Narrative of Some of the Adventures, Dangers and Sufferings of a Revolutionary Soldier by Joseph Plumb Martin (1830)
Samuel Dewees Recounts the Suppression of Insubordination
in the Continental Army after the Mutinies of 1781 (1844)
Speech to the United States Congress by Corn Tassel (1785)
Letter to George Washington by Henry Knox (1786)
Federalist No. 10 (1787)
Letter to President Washington by Big Tree, Cornplanter, and Half-Town (1790)
Letter to Jefferson by Benjamin Banneker (1791)
A Great Difference between Red and White
by Sago-Yo-Watha (Red Jacket) (1805)
Sleep not longer, O Choctaws and Chickasaws by Tecumseh (1811)
Tecumseh's Speech to the Osages (Winter 1811-12)
Two Documents on the Cherokee Removal (1829 and 1830)
1830 to the Civil War
The Civil War to 1900
1900 to the First World War
1918 through the Depression
Plain Words (1919)
"Women As Leaders" by Amy Euphemia Jacques Garvey (1925)
Propaganda by Edward Bernays (1928)
The Negro is the Race Oppressed by All the Imperialists by Lamine Senghor (1927)
A selection from Black Bolshevik by Harry Haywood
"I Am A Union Woman"
by Aunt Molly Jackson (1931)
"You Have to Fight for Freedom"
by Sylvia Woods (published 1973)
A Selection of the Poetry of Langston Hughes
Organizing the Unemployed in the Bronx in the 1930s by Rose Chernin
Fannie Henderson Witnesses Southern Lynch Law (1933)
The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter Godwin Woodson (1933)
Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday and Abel Meeropol (1937)
"You Cannot Kill the Working Class" by Angelo Herndon (1937)
"Back of the Yards" by Vicky Starr ("Stella Nowicki"; Published 1973)
War Is A Racket by Major General Smedley Butler (1935)
War World Two through the Fifties
The Six Pamphlets of the White Rose Society (1942/3)
Admiral Gene Larocque Speaks to Studs Terkel About "The Good War" (1985)
Messages to America: The Letters of Ho Chi Minh (1945-69)
A Short Primer on Iran: Several Helpful Readings
Quinby's Warning by Edwin Jay Quinby (1946)
A Letter to Negro Soldiers (1954)
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
from the Women's Political Council (1955)
Paul Robeson's Unread Statement before the House Committee on Un-American Activities
(1956)
Reciprocal Bases of National Culture and the Fight for Freedom by Frantz Fanon (1959)
A Historical Survey of Organizations of the Left Among the Chinese in America by H. M. Lai (published 1972) ☉
The 1960s
The 1970s
The 1980s
To the Soldiers of El Salvador by Lillian Jiménez (translated 1988)
We Are Power by John Trudell (1980)
The Bridge Poem by Donna Kate Rushin (1981)
A Left-Handed Commencement by Ursula K. Le Guin (1983)
Commencement Address at Milton Academy by Marian Wright Edelman (1983)
Address to the Commonwealth Club of California by Cesar Chavez (1984)
Pioneering In The Nuclear Age:
An Essay on Israel and the Palestinians by Eqbal Ahmad (1984)
An Excerpt of Fabio Ernesto Carrasco's Testimony (1990)
Map of Local Military Connections to the U.S. War in Central America (And The Pledge of Resistance) (1986)
Black History by Gil Scott-Heron
Local P-9 Strikers and Supporters on the 1985-1986 Meatpacking Strike against the Hormel Company in Austin, Minnesota (1991)
Why We Fight
by Vito Russo (1988)
The Movement Action Plan: A Strategic Framework Describing the Eight Stages of Successful Social Movements by Bill Moyer
People Have The Power by Patti Smith
The Seven Deadly Sins Fact Sheet by David Wojnarowicz (1989)
Selections from Close to the Knives
by David Wojnarowicz (1980s/1991)
The 1990s to Today
The Future Is All We Have
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire (1968)
How to Master Secret Work by the Communist Party of South Africa (c. 1980s)
Strategic Monkeywrenching by Dave Forman (1985)
Affinity Groups & Support
by Nancy Alach and ACT-UP
Locking Down with Lockboxes
From Crimethinc.'s Recipes for Disaster
What Radicalized You? (2020)