The program today is presented by the American Ethical Union, our national organization.  The program will recognize the 2022 Anna Garlin Spencer Award recipients, and feature a talk by Jone Johnson Lewis about Anna Garlin Spencer for whom the award is named.  Born in 1851, Anna Garlin Spencer was a social activist and feminist icon. […]

In our age of anxiety and hopelessness over the many problems we face, action through volunteerism can be an antidote as recently mentioned in the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/23/well/mind/mental-health-climate-anxiety.html.  EHST will feature several members who are volunteering in the community; each will tell what they are doing and why.  Attendees will then be encouraged to […]

EHST will show the documentary "The Neutral Ground."  Here's what the film maker says about the film.  "A documentary about memory, monuments, and how to break up with the Confederacy.  The Neutral Ground documents the City of New Orleans’ fight over monuments and America’s troubled romance with the Lost Cause. In 2015, director CJ Hunt […]

Don R. Johnson will speak to us about signs, symbols, and symbolic actions.  We all know what the first two mean, and may have an idea about symbolic actions. (Think of the solitary man standing before a tank in Tiananmen Square.)   These terms are not mere literary terms, but are useful in understanding the past, […]

On June 30, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court decided to take up Moore v. Harper during its next term, which begins in October 2022. Moore, a North Carolina Congressional gerrymandering case, likely to be argued in December 2022, is being called "perhaps the gravest threat to American democracy since the Jan. 6 attack." Moore v. […]