The movements of colonial invasion forces
during the Northwest Resistance of 1885
History is What’s Happening
This site serves as an online archive focusing on first hand accounts by participants in social movements, also including some secondary histories and analysis.
As the saying goes, “listen to voices”, only this time, really listen, learn, and think for yourself.
The republishing of a text here is not any kind of endorsement by this site’s editor of the arguments or suggestions made by the author of that text.
Please also note that the images at the top of texts are not necessarily from the original source publications.
The name of this site is copied from the title of the second album by the Amsterdam anarcho-punk band The Ex.
The point of this archive site is to make various historical texts more accessible in a simple, collated and searchable text format, and to attach as editorial addendum relevant links to texts and videos on other sites, in order to provide greater context and scope, linking historical struggles to each other and to the struggles of the present.
For example, there is not yet any comprehensive online archive or library where one can find together in a single place every article that Emma Goldman ever wrote. Articles by various writers such as Goldman are dispersed across many different magazines, newspapers, books and online archives without all being collected in some handy location. That said, let one hundred archives bloom!
With regard to this particular archive site, for the most part, redundancy has been avoided. If a text is already available in a simple and accessible text format elsewhere, usually a link will be provided instead of the full article being republished here.
In the past, a few texts were republished here despite already being accessible elsewhere simply because they were particularly interesting and not getting enough attention, or because certain information had been left out by other republishers. Sometimes it has also happened that the editor was unaware that a text was already available in an accessible format online, so the redundancy was just a mistake.
Don’t hesitate to use the search function if you’re having trouble finding anything.
-Ed. (2025/2026)
Contact: historyiswhatshappening (at) proton (dot) me
