History

Each spread in this little board book features an inspiring famous person, beginning their story with "This little…

Los Siete de la Raza were seven youths from San Francisco’s Mission District, accused of killing a cop on May 1, 1969.…

New Jewish Agenda (1980-1992) was a national membership organization with the slogan "a Jewish voice among progressives…

Contrary to what Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine…

Drugs have had an important role in the social, cultural, and spiritual development of civilization from the most…

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

Short bios, relevant quotes, and vividly colorful illustrations combine to spotlight 52 of history’s black…

Were medieval women slaves to their husband's desires, jealously secured in a chastity belt in his absence? Was sex a…

When legendary artist R. Crumb discovered the Bible to be “a text so great and so strange that it lends itself…

In this timely and inventive collection of essays, editors Mary N. Taylor and Noah Brehmer bring together writings from…

The Holocaust is often portrayed as a single horrific event in history, never to be forgotten, but a unforseen…

From the world of charcoal on cave walls to the eras following Jay-Z's blue (Pantone number SC2011), the…

 Put your waste to work with rad projects and activites designed to help you reduce, reuse, recycle, and rethink your…

In the early 1700s, Queen Nanny and the Windward Maroons used guerrilla warfare to defeat the British from the mountains…

In the searing pages of this classic autobiography, originally published in 1964, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader,…

Do you expect to hear stories of gruesome violence perpetrated by women? If not, this gorefest of a book will blow your…

In Ancient Rome, all the best stories have one thing in common—murder. Romulus killed Remus to found the city, Caesar…

For every Moriarty out there, there are a thousand other criminals without the know-how to make crime work for them.…

This book dives into the response of three antifascist groups in Portland, Oregon after white nationalists murdered an…

Did you know about the anarchist alternative school system that ran in the US between 1910 and 1960? There were more…

The Green Book, a travel guide for black motorists, was invaluable for African Americans traveling through segregated…

Picture a massive wall that splits the land in twain and marks the end of the "civilized" world. Think of raiders on war…

Featuring a pile of issues of the classic Cometbus zine. Includes the long out-of-print, now unearthed contributor issue…

On December 11, 1921, propelled by the need to feed their children and outraged at Kansas’s new antilabor legislation,…

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

This brief but comprehensive biography of Franz Kafka and summary of many of his works, all illustrated by R. Crumb,…

Did you know that the equating of sex/gender is actually pretty new in terms of history? And that the biological…

A finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards Resistance: The LGBT Fight Against Fascism in WWII is filled with the brave…