History

Where do books come from? Or, more specifically, where do the inspirations for these stories come from? This collection…

After President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, his successor established a commission to investigate. In graphic…

“It has been said that the biggest man in the Populist Party of Kansas today is a woman,” wrote The Leavenworth…

The Young Lords Organization was born in 1968 when a Puerto Rican Chicago street gang turned to political action and…

Haskell Indian Nations University began as the U.S. Indian Industrial Training School. It was one of the first Native…

The Sisters Are Alright exposes anti–black-woman propaganda and shows how real black women are pushing back against…

Harley Flanagan exhibits a fascinating back story: a child prodigy and family friend of Andy Warhol and Allen Ginsberg,…

A charmingly illustrated and educational book, New York Times best seller Women in Science highlights the…

She's beauty and gives face, she might spray you with mace . . . just because she can. Welcome to the Miss U.S. of Heya…

A companion to the equally awesome and wonderfully illustrated "Women in Science," this book highlights the…

This book is so nerdy and weird and fun and interesting. I'd say it makes the history of presidential assassinations…

This is the story of the infamous Bonnot Gang: the most notorious French anarchists ever. It is the story of how the…

Want to join the Rebel Alliance? Congratulations, you're already on the team. These books will help get you primed for…

Shanahan reveals the exceptionality of figs in a way that will forever change the way you perceive these peculiar fruit.…

How does feminism relate to motherhood, how has it changed over time, and what does the future of motherhood and…

Despite the difficulty of quantum physics, this book is able to cover a lot of basic theories with clarity. This is a…

In the 1940s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) needed quick-thinking mathematicians, it recruited…

Part travelog, part science lesson, this book takes readers from the driest deserts of Chile to the genetic wasteland of…

Different philosophical ideologies are discussed in this helpful book. Various schools of thought, famous philosophers,…

This book covers the different aspects that go into management, such as advertising, conflict resolution, and business…

Punk rock music has addressed race since the beginning, and racial concerns have always been important in punk…

An essay from father to son on how to live, thrive and survive as an African American man. In a profound work that…

In full color print, Woman Rebel follows Margaret Sanger's story as an activist, mother, nurse, and protofeminist…

Giving shape to the deep depression that pervaded Lincoln's adult life, Joshua Wolf Shenk's Lincoln's Melancholy reveals…

In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold Ii of Belgium seized for himself the vast and…

In the late 90s, artist and printer Josh MacPhee found a 1970s-era anti-colonial pamphlet with a compelling cover about…

The Watsonville Canning strike was a dramatic show of the power by women workers whose struggle became a rallying point…