History

This Celebrate People's History poster (part of a series by the justseeds artist collective) commemorates the burning of…

*Have your poster shipped in a Poster Tube for extra protection! Posters not shipped in tubes will be folded in half for…

A century ago, Marshall "Major" Taylor was the fastest man in America and a sports hero idolized worldwide—bigger than…

In June 2016 Interference Archive opened the exhibition, if a song could be freedom . . . Organized Sounds of…

The people of Egypt have been conquered by the Hyksos, the Persians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Arabs, the Ottomans,…

What are graphic novels for? Lots of different things, and one of the best is journalism—reporting on real-life…

For many people in modern America, it is difficult to understand what it was like to be an African American living under…

Five great documentaries on that sadly antiquated format, the Betamax tape. Just kidding—they're all on DVDs. We're so…

Edward Snowden is one of the most controversial people of modern times. Whistleblower, fugitive, either a traitorous…

Indispensable for every home, library, and office, The Knowledge Book distills thousands of years of humankind’s…

Jessica Abel's new comics journalism book, On the Wire, is the nonfiction graphic novel format story of the rise of the…

Schoolhouse Rock called this number its hero, and it's been making huge impacts and stirring up controversy since long…

In an impassioned defense of intellectual freedom and a clarion call to intellectual responsibility, Galileo’s Middle…

On a global scale, violence against women is so common that some experts consider it a “normal” aspect of women’s…

Here are somemore of Jeff's Favorites. In this one he'd like to take you through the full spectrum of emotion.…

In 1979, punk was over . . . but by 1981, hardcore was born. As teenagers in 1981, best friends David Markey and Jordan…

Celebrate whatever independence you've got by reading some books that'll set off mental fireworks and get you moving and…

Since its publication by Sierra Club Books in 1977, The Unsettling of America has been recognized as a classic of…

This is the book that predicted the 1992 LA riots. Mike Davis gives us a full bore analysis of Los Angeles culture,…

We all know that history is written by the winners—and the powerful—but how much of it is actually fiction? And who…

It's one of the biggest fights against injustice you've never even heard about. In 1891, coal companies in eastern…

Primo Tapia de la Cruz (1885–1926) was born into the indigenous Tarascan community of Naraja, Mexico. While working as…

Po’pay was a Tewa spiritual leader who led the 1680 Pueblo Revolt, an anticolonial movement to remove the Spanish…

Christianity interprets Jesus as identical to Christ, but is the historical Jesus the same as the supposed Christian…

Valerie Solanas may have been dismissed but will never be forgotten. She has become, perhaps unwittingly, a figurehead…

The hidden story behind the shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York, and makes public what few have…

Most of us probably think of disasters as times when social order breaks down, when neighbors turn on each other, when…