Progressive Nation: A Travel Guide with 400+ Left Turns and Inspiring LandmarksChicago Review Press, 2008 - 432 pages A Selection of the Progressive Book ClubFrom the sites of famous sit-ins, marches, and strikes to the locales of events that led to landmark Supreme Court decisions, this inspiring travel guide journeys to more than 400 of the places in the United States that are important to progressive politics. Organized by state, it includes the stories of hundreds of women and men of action who, through creativity and hard work, changed American society for the better. Visit the battlegrounds and celebrate the victories of civil libertarians, feminists, African Americans, gays, lesbians, environmentalists, labor organizers, and media activists. Make a stop at the home of abolitionists Levi and Catharine Coffin, Grand Central Station on the Underground Railroad. Check out Alice's Restaurant Church, the namesake of Arlo Guthrie's song protesting the draft. Learn about the first women's convention held by Elizabeth Cady Stanton in Seneca Falls at the Women's Hall of Fame. See the site of the Haymarket Riot in Chicago where laborers protested working conditions. Join the many people who pay homage at the grave site of Leonard Matlovich, the gay Vietnam War veteran who fought the U.S. military--and won--when he was wrongfully discharged for homosexuality. Each entry features a listing of books and websites for further information, making this an essential lefty resource. For liberal-minded adventurous travelers, educational family vacationers, and progressives who want to know their history, this book will inspire them to do more than just cast a vote. |
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... House in Hartford (800 Main Street) where the first trial took place. In New Haven you can find a monument on the site of the navy brig where the escapees were imprisoned (165 Church Street). A replica of the Amistad—the Freedom ...
... house of prostitution. It is against the natural law, which says that marital relations are for procreation and not entertainment.” Griswold and Buxton were found guilty at their first trial, and in appeals before the state's appellate ...
... House ( 63 Federal Street ) , near the Bowdoin College campus where her husband Calvin was a professor , and fired off the final chapter first . God may have dictated the book , but the stories were all Stowe's , collected over the ...
... house in stone, and learned how to harvest and convert maple sugar into syrup, which met their modest cash needs. Was it all toil and backbreaking work? After working out the kinks, the Nearings estimated that they only needed to ...
... house if you haven't a tolerable planet to put it on? The heads of conservatives have a puny and deficient look, a certain callowness and concavity, as if they were prematurely exposed on one or both sides. There will never be a really ...
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Progressive Nation: A Travel Guide with 400+ Left Turns and Inspiring Landmarks Jerome Pohlen No preview available - 2008 |