Posts tagged ‘slavery’

February 16, 2012

New Free Poster! “Civil Rights For All Was a Crazy Liberal Idea.”

This is another poster in our series that celebrates the many ways that “crazy liberal ideas” have shaped the America we love today.  Liberals can be either Democrats or Republicans. At the time of Lincoln, for example, the Republican Party was the new party with liberal ideas, and the Democratic Party backed the status quo and slavery. Over the last 150 years, the two parties have completely swapped positions, but there are still liberals fighting the good fight. And that’s how we move forward. Without liberals taking action, we would still be living the feudal era.

To get a hi-res version of this poster, just click the image above.

To see more posters about crazy liberal ideas, go here.

May 9, 2011

New Essay: “Egalitarianism Was a Crazy Liberal Idea”

In last few decades, American conservatives have worked hard to put about the idea that liberals are elitists. To a surprising degree, they have been successful, at least with some portions of the population. How did this happen? And where did idea that we should treat our fellow citizens equally really come from?

Find out in this brisk and brief essay by guest blogger and legal historian Dr. William Turner.

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