Zine Month: History & Biography
July is Zine Month, so we're shining the spotlight on our wide-ranging zine collections to help you celebrate.
This round is a collection of zines about kickass history and notable folks, spanning punk rock roots, queer sailors, global resistance movements, and more.
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![100 Years of Modern Iran (1891-1991) (Simple History)](/previews/iran.jpg)
100 Years of Modern Iran (1891-1991) (Simple History)
by John Gerlach Author
Iran has been at the center of the action for over 2500 years. J. Gerlach's recent history of the country covers a…
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Anarchism: Arguments for and Against
by Albert Meltzer Author
Everything you ever wanted to know about anarchism but were afraid to ask. A new revised and updated edition of the…
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![Autism Causes Vaccines: Stories of Neurodiverse Inventors and Discoveries](/previews/autismcausesvaccines.jpg)
Autism Causes Vaccines: Stories of Neurodiverse Inventors and Discoveries
by Joe Biel Author
Just about every breakthrough discovery and some of the most innovative inventors in the history of the world have been…
$6.95
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![Bicycle Culture Rising #4: How Kittie Knox Made Bicycling for Everyone](/previews/1000006297.jpg)
Bicycle Culture Rising #4: How Kittie Knox Made Bicycling for Everyone
by Joe Biel Author
In the 1890s, bicycling was a cultural activity for the wealthy elite, with a bicycle costing about twenty weeks of a…
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![The CIA Makes Science Fiction Unexciting #10: What Happened to the Black Panther Party?](/previews/20230208_160523.jpg)
The CIA Makes Science Fiction Unexciting #10: What Happened to the Black Panther Party?
by Joseph E. Green Author and Joe Biel Series Editor
You may have heard of the Black Panther Party, but what do we really know? Here's introduction to the time shit hit…
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![Bugs in Culture: From Folklore to World War](/previews/PXL_20230928_163550749.jpg)
Bugs in Culture: From Folklore to World War
by Karyn Light-Gibson Author
Bugs (insects and other animals without spines) outnumber us 200 million to one. It should be no surprise then that they…
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![Clevo Style: How Decades of Cleveland Punk and Hardcore Shaped the World](/previews/PXL_20230830_140938327.jpg)
Clevo Style: How Decades of Cleveland Punk and Hardcore Shaped the World
by A. Iwasa Author
Cleveland, Ohio's punk scene has played host and step parent to tens of thousands of kids for over 40 years.…
$7.95
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![The Cold War](/previews/cold_war_front.jpg)
The Cold War
by John Gerlach Author
In the latest installment of the Simple History zine series, author J. Gerlach takes a look at the Cold War. An era of…
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![Gay Sailor Tattoos](/previews/1000005725.jpg)
Gay Sailor Tattoos
by R.J. Gillis Author
It wasn't always a breeze to find lovers on the high seas, and we don't have many sources about sailors who desired…
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![Hallowzine #2](/previews/PXL_20231013_153637139.jpg)
Hallowzine #2
by R.J. Gillis Author
Halloween has a long history of “guising” (from disguise), begging, and pranking, but trick-or-treat was a…
$6.95
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![Hawaii (1778-1959): From Western Discovery to Statehood](/previews/hawaii_front.jpg)
Hawaii (1778-1959): From Western Discovery to Statehood
by John Gerlach Author
Hawaii tells the story of an uncharted melting pot of cultures, homogenized and “conquered” by the United States. It…
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![I.W.W. Little Red Songbook: Nineteenth Edition from 1923 with All of the Classic Hits](/previews/IMG_5824.JPG_blowup_copy0.jpg)
I.W.W. Little Red Songbook: Nineteenth Edition from 1923 with All of the Classic Hits
by Joe Hill Author
Originally published in 1923, the nineteenth edition of the International Workers of the World’s Little Red Songbook…
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![Jane: The Legendary Story of the Underground Abortion Service, 1968-1973](/previews/PXL_20230817_180600733.jpg)
Jane: The Legendary Story of the Underground Abortion Service, 1968-1973
by Judith Arcana Editor
Before Roe v. Wade legalized abortion in the U.S. in 1973, the Abortion Counseling Services of Women’s Liberation was…
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![Obsessed with Bass: The Essential History of Miami Bass, 1985-1993](/previews/IMG_1929.JPG_blowup_copy0.jpg)
Obsessed with Bass: The Essential History of Miami Bass, 1985-1993
by Aaron Nemec Author
Late one night in Miami in 1985, Amos Larkins II was mixing the track “Commin’ In Fresh” by Double Duce…
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![Punk in NYC's Lower East Side 1981-1991](/previews/PXL_20230828_150131944.jpg)
Punk in NYC's Lower East Side 1981-1991
by Ben Nadler Author
Much has been written about the glamorous and short-lived New York City punk rock scene of the late 1970s. Less has been…
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![Punks Around #4: The Minot, North Dakota Punk Scene 2001-2018](/previews/punksaround4_blowup.jpg)
Punks Around #4: The Minot, North Dakota Punk Scene 2001-2018
by Joe Biel Author and Alexander Herbert Series Editor
Minot may only be the fourth largest city in North Dakota, but it's a key player in the punk ecosphere. Home to the…
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![Robert Smalls: The Enslaved Man Who Stole a Confederate Ship, Broke the Code, & Freed a Village](/previews/robert-smalls_copy0.jpg)
Robert Smalls: The Enslaved Man Who Stole a Confederate Ship, Broke the Code, & Freed a Village
by Joe Biel Author
During the Civil War, the enslaved Black crew of a Confederate ship was left to sleep on board overnight. Following a…
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![Seeds of Spring #1: A Mi'kmaq Teen Discovers Kropotkin, Punk, and Her Place in the World | The Prince & The Birch Tree](/previews/PXL_20231109_171610911.jpg)
Seeds of Spring #1: A Mi'kmaq Teen Discovers Kropotkin, Punk, and Her Place in the World | The Prince & The Birch Tree
by Christopher Coquard Author and Sacha Ravenda Illustrator
"The Prince & the Birch Tree" is the first comic in the 15-part Seeds of Spring series. Naguset begins to learn the…
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![So Death Will End: The Story of Forrest Bess, Outsider Artist and Gender Visionary 1911-1977](/previews/so-death-will-end.jpg)
So Death Will End: The Story of Forrest Bess, Outsider Artist and Gender Visionary 1911-1977
by Lucy Talbot Allen Author
A graphic biography told in the form of a reverential letter, we take a look at how outsider artist Forrest Bess painted…
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![The Spanish Civil War](/previews/thespanishcivilwarcover.jpg)
The Spanish Civil War
by John Gerlach Author
The Spanish Civil War is part of John Gerlach's Simple History series! It’s 1936 and the world watches religious…
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![Teenage Castaways: True Stories of Shipwreck Survivors](/previews/20220525_082802.jpg)
Teenage Castaways: True Stories of Shipwreck Survivors
by Elly Blue Author
These five true stories are about teens who survived shipwrecks and lived to tell their incredible stories. The first…
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![Understanding Eugenics: The U.S. and Nazi Plans to Shape the Gene Pool & Control the Population](/previews/20220517_093034.jpg)
Understanding Eugenics: The U.S. and Nazi Plans to Shape the Gene Pool & Control the Population
by Joe Biel Author
The "science" of eugenics—by which the genetic makeup of a population is shaped by controlling who does and doesn't…
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![White Riot / Black Massacre: A Brief History of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre](/previews/PXL_20230828_142609052.PORTRAIT.ORIGINAL.jpg)
White Riot / Black Massacre: A Brief History of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
by Kris Rose Author
In highly-segregated Tulsa, Oklahoma in June, 1921, a white mob attacked the mostly Black neighborhood of Greenwood.…
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![Pin #125: I Read Zines](/previews/dsc_0210.jpg)
Pin #125I Read Zines
by Rex Ray Author
Wear your love of underground literature as a badge of pride! Because you never need to rely on a few giant corporations…
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![Christopher Columbus and His Expeditions to America](/previews/christopher_columbus_front.jpg)
Christopher Columbus and His Expeditions to America
by John Gerlach Author
While past histories depict Christopher Columbus as either god-sent angel or bloodthirsty demon, Simple History Series…
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The Least We Can Do: White Supremacy, Free Speech, and Independent Bookstores
by Josh Cook Author
Like most of our cultural institutions and workers, bookshops and booksellers have worked hard in the last few years to…
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![Lebanon Revolts](/previews/1000006594.jpg)
Lebanon Revolts
by Sami A.F. Author
An impassioned narrative poem contrasted with simple but powerful sketches of the revolution, this story of the Lebanese…
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![What the Ladies Have to Say: Voices of Women Activists in Palestine, Indonesia, and the Philippines](/previews/1000006147.jpg)
What the Ladies Have to Say: Voices of Women Activists in Palestine, Indonesia, and the Philippines
Extensive interviews with female activists detailing the way that U.S. imperialism has personally affected them as well…
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