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Revolts in L.A. don’t always need literal flames — because the ones that burn brightest and longest are moral and philosophical.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2025

One book that takes a unique approach to exploring their stories is Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts.

From Slate • Mar. 8, 2024

Revolts against taxation and the Roman looting of the Second Temple in Jerusalem led to war in 66 CE.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Revolts were staged in at least 50 cities.

From Washington Post • Aug. 16, 2021

In every phase of educational history growth has proceeded by evolution rather than by revolution, and this applies to the Protestant Revolts as well as to other revolutions.

From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson