by Susan | Dec 30, 2014 | this day in peace and justice history
December 30, 1853 James Gadsden, the U.S. minister to Mexico, and General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, the president of Mexico, signed the Gadsden Purchase in Mexico City. The treaty settled the dispute over the location of the Mexican border west of El Paso, Texas,...
by Susan | Dec 29, 2014 | this day in peace and justice history
December 29, 1845 Texas entered the United States as a slave state, widening the gulf in the United States over the issue of slavery and setting off the Mexican-American War. December 29, 1890 In the final chapter of America’s long Indian wars, the U.S. Cavalry...
by Susan | Dec 28, 2014 | this day in peace and justice history
December 28, 1793 Thomas Paine was arrested in France for treason, having been tried in absentia on December 26 and convicted. Before moving to France, Paine was an instrumental figure in the American Revolution as the author of Common Sense. Paine moved to Paris to...
by Susan | Dec 27, 2014 | this day in peace and justice history
December 27, 1900 Abandoning the nonviolent tactics of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), anti-alcohol crusader Carrie Nation took an axe and smashed up the bar at the Carey Hotel in Wichita, Kansas, causing several thousand dollars in damage and...
by Susan | Dec 25, 2014 | this day in peace and justice history
December 25, 1914 Just after midnight on Christmas morning, German troops at the front in World War I ceased firing their guns and artillery, and began to sing Christmas carols. At the first light of dawn, many of the German soldiers emerged from their trenches and...
by Susan | Dec 22, 2014 | this day in peace and justice history
December 22, 1989 The Romanian army defected to the cause of anti-communist demonstrators, and the government of Nicolae Ceausescu was overthrown. The end of 42 years of repressive communist rule came three days after Ceausescu’s security forces opened fire on...
