Zine Month: History & Biography

Iran has been at the center of the action for over 2500 years. J. Gerlach's recent history of the country covers a…

Just about every breakthrough discovery and some of the most innovative inventors in the history of the world have been…

In the 1890s, bicycling was a cultural activity for the wealthy elite, with a bicycle costing about twenty weeks of a…

You may have heard of the Black Panther Party, but what do we really know? Here's introduction to the time shit hit…

Bugs (insects and other animals without spines) outnumber us 200 million to one. It should be no surprise then that they…

Cleveland, Ohio's punk scene has played host and step parent to tens of thousands of kids for over 40 years.…

In the latest installment of the Simple History zine series, author J. Gerlach takes a look at the Cold War. An era of…

It wasn't always a breeze to find lovers on the high seas, and we don't have many sources about sailors who desired…

Halloween has a long history of “guising” (from disguise), begging, and pranking, but trick-or-treat was a…

Hawaii tells the story of an uncharted melting pot of cultures, homogenized and “conquered” by the United States. It…

Originally published in 1923, the nineteenth edition of the International Workers of the World’s Little Red Songbook…

Before Roe v. Wade legalized abortion in the U.S. in 1973, the Abortion Counseling Services of Women’s Liberation was…

Late one night in Miami in 1985, Amos Larkins II was mixing the track “Commin’ In Fresh” by Double Duce…

Much has been written about the glamorous and short-lived New York City punk rock scene of the late 1970s. Less has been…

Minot may only be the fourth largest city in North Dakota, but it's a key player in the punk ecosphere. Home to the…

During the Civil War, the enslaved Black crew of a Confederate ship was left to sleep on board overnight. Following a…

"The Prince & the Birch Tree" is the first comic in the 15-part Seeds of Spring series. Naguset begins to learn the…

A graphic biography told in the form of a reverential letter, we take a look at how outsider artist Forrest Bess painted…

The Spanish Civil War is part of John Gerlach's Simple History series! It’s 1936 and the world watches religious…

These five true stories are about teens who survived shipwrecks and lived to tell their incredible stories. The first…

The "science" of eugenics—by which the genetic makeup of a population is shaped by controlling who does and doesn't…

In highly-segregated Tulsa, Oklahoma in June, 1921, a white mob attacked the mostly Black neighborhood of Greenwood.…

Wear your love of underground literature as a badge of pride! Because you never need to rely on a few giant corporations…

While past histories depict Christopher Columbus as either god-sent angel or bloodthirsty demon, Simple History Series…

An impassioned narrative poem contrasted with simple but powerful sketches of the revolution, this story of the Lebanese…

Extensive interviews with female activists detailing the way that U.S. imperialism has personally affected them as well…