Throughout American history, religion has played a significant role in promoting social reform. From the abolitionist movement of the early 19th century to the civil rights movement of the 20th ...

Thomas Jefferson’s proclamation of “self-evident truths” in the Declaration of Independence was a turning point in world ...

The famed educator and Highlander Folk School founder offers insights on living through the ups and downs of movement cycles.

Given how social media has been a part of most people’s everyday lives, it should not be surprising to us that social movement can be accomplished effectively online. In this post, my student, Sarah ...

It has never been clearer that ideas germinated by social movements exert great force in law and politics in the United States. Examples from the left abound over the last decade. Occupy Wall Street ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Gal Beckerman talked about forms of communications activists use to exchange ideas to affect change. New York Times Book Review editor and ...

On a special episode (first released on February 5, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: From conservative social movements such as those tied to prohibition, the Moral Majority evangelicals, and the Tea ...

The Tea Party rang in the decade, and President Trump's rallies continue with gusto. In between, America rediscovered its capacity for protest and social action on a grand scale. Why have social ...

Gordon, a noted historian of the United States, seeks to understand how social movements arise and operate, in the belief that these movements have changed the world as significantly as have wars or ...

Movements can happen organically on social media. A single tweet can have a profound impact and incite change, but real movements are about more than just a hashtag. In this article, I'd like to ...