Timor, the most distant colony of Portugal, served as a place of deportation for prisoners since beginning of the XVIII century. From the end of the XIX century, political prisoners were also sent to ...

George Woodcock (1912-1995) was a historian, political biographer, essayist, poet, and anarchist. He wrote biographies of such anarchist thinkers as Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, William Godwin, Oscar Wilde ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first edition of Bread and Freedom came out on Nov. 11, 1906. From the collection of the National Library of Israel, courtesy ...

Curators Julie Ault and Julie Herrada discuss the opening of the “American Sampler: Activating the Archive” exhibit at the UMMA Saturday night. Ava Farah/DAILY. Buy this photo. UMMA director Christina ...

Ángel Cappelletti (1927-1995) was an Argentine philosopher who spent much of his career teaching at Simón Bolívar University in Venezuela. He also translated numerous works from Greek and Latin, and ...

The French firebrand Joseph Déjacque lived a short life defined by a wild and beautiful struggle against authority, a life of intense passion for freedom and genuine class war. Unlike many of the ...

October 16: Abolitionist John Brown leads a raid on a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry. October 19: Henry David Thoreau publishes his essay, "A Plea for Captain John Brown," which will later influence ...

REUTERS - 1839: Frenchman Pierre-Joseph Proudhon writes De la Celebration du Dimanche, exploring social and political concepts surrounding poverty. Proudhou later described himself as an "anarchist" ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Geoffrey Baym, Temple University (THE CONVERSATION) On a late summer day in 1906, a ...

On a late summer day in 1906, a small group of newly arrived Jewish immigrants in Philadelphia took a streetcar across town to Fairmount Park. Several miles from the cramped row houses and oppressive ...