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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... Park. In 1921 the American School for the Deaf relocated to West Hartford ( 139 N. Main Street ) . The original building was eventually torn down , but a monu- ment to Cogswell now stands just east of the site in what is today Gallaudet ...
... Park Bushnell Park , 166 Capitol Avenue , Hartford , CT 06106 When it was first proposed it was a novel idea . Minister Horace Bushnell offered a solution for the urban eyesore along Hartford's Hog River : a public park . On January 5 ...
... Park , Main Road ( Route 1A ) , Hampden , ME 04444 ED Dorothea Dix was born south of Hampden on April 4 , 1802 , and lived here until her family moved to Worcester , Massachusetts , when she was 12 years old . By 14 she was teaching ...
... park now marks her Hampton birthplace. LEARN MORE Voice for the Mad by David L. Gollaher (Free Press, 1995) Stranger and Traveler by Dorothy Clarke Wilson (Little, Brown and Company, 1975). Harborside. Helen and Scott Nearing Live the ...
... parks/northeast/wldn.htm www.walden.org, (781) 259-4770 Walden Or Life in the Woods: A Fully Annotated Edition by Henry David Thoreau and Jeffrey S. Cramer, ed. (Yale, 2004) No Man's Garden by Daniel B. Botkin (Island Press, 2001) ...
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