by Susan | May 22, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
May 22, 1703 British author Daniel Defoe was fined, imprisoned and later pilloried for seditious libel for his satire, The Shortest Way With Dissenters, which poked fun, in much the way that The Onion does today, of the persecution of religious sects such as the...
by Susan | May 21, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
May 21, 1856 Pro-slavery activists attacked and ransacked the town of Lawrence, Kansas, which had been founded by anti-slavery settlers. The incident helped ratchet up the guerrilla war in Kansas Territory that became known as Bleeding...
by Susan | May 20, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
May 20, 1904 President Theodore Roosevelt, eager to wave his “big stick” before the Republican National Convention met in June, ordered seven warships to Tangier, Morocco, to rescue a wealthy former resident of Trenton, NJ, who was being held for ransom by...
by Susan | May 19, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
May 19, 1850 Four thousand Mexican miners gathered in Sonora, California, to protest the Foreign Miners’ Tax, which was enacted to drive them from gold fields. Before the discovery of gold, native Mexicans greatly outnumbered Anglos in California. By 1849...
by Susan | May 18, 2015 | Monuments
The Peace Arch is on the Canada–United States border between the Blaine, Washington and Surrey, British Columbia. It is 67 feet tall and dedicated in September 1921, commemorates the signing of the Treaty of Ghent in 1814. The monument is built on the exact United...
