History

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…

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

This updated study of the economics, politics, and ecology of water explores more than a century of both public and…

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…

How can we decolonize the world when colonialist attitudes of self and other are so deeply embedded in our psyches? Open…

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

From the bestselling author of 1491, this is a deeply engaging new history of how European settlements in the…

From the subway to the skyscraper, from Manhattan’s financial district to the Long Island suburbs, every inch of New…

In 1984 members of the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) refused to unload South African cargo off the…

One Thousand Mustaches is both a lighthearted cultural history and an earnest style manual. It's the story of the…

We agree, these are frustrating times and it feels like there is yet a lot of work to do towards social justice. So…

Stealing All Transmissions is, above all, a love story. It’s the story of how The Clash fell in love with America, and…

Matilde Landa (1904-1942) was a famous militant of the PCE (Spanish Communist Party) who fought in the Spanish Civil War…

The Luddite insurrections (roughly 1811-1813 or later) are often represented as a misguided, reactionary backlash by…

The Spanish Maquis were guerrillas who fought against the Franco regime. They carried out sabotage in Spain, as well as…