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.
100 Years of Modern Iran (1891-1991) (Simple History)
Iran has been at the center of the action for over 2500 years. J. Gerlach's recent history of the country covers a…
Anarchism: Arguments for and Against
Everything you ever wanted to know about anarchism but were afraid to ask. A new revised and updated edition of the…
Autism Causes Vaccines: The Scientific Method as An Autistic Worldview
Just about every breakthrough discovery and some of the most innovative inventors in the history of the world have been…
Bicycle Culture Rising #4: How Kittie Knox Made Bicycling for Everyone
In the 1890s, bicycling was a cultural activity for the wealthy elite, with a bicycle costing about twenty weeks of a…
The CIA Makes Science Fiction Unexciting #10: What Happened to the Black Panther Party?
You may have heard of the Black Panther Party, but what do we really know? Here's introduction to the time shit hit…
Bugs in Culture: From Folklore to World War
Bugs (insects and other animals without spines) outnumber us 200 million to one. It should be no surprise then that they…
Clevo Style: How Decades of Cleveland Punk and Hardcore Shaped the World
Cleveland, Ohio's punk scene has played host and step parent to tens of thousands of kids for over 40 years.…
The Cold War
In the latest installment of the Simple History zine series, author J. Gerlach takes a look at the Cold War. An era of…
Gay Sailor Tattoos
It wasn't always a breeze to find lovers on the high seas, and we don't have many sources about sailors who desired…
Hallowzine #2
Halloween has a long history of “guising” (from disguise), begging, and pranking, but trick-or-treat was a…
Hawaii (1778-1959): From Western Discovery to Statehood
Hawaii tells the story of an uncharted melting pot of cultures, homogenized and “conquered” by the United States. It…
I.W.W. Little Red Songbook: Nineteenth Edition from 1923 with All of the Classic Hits
Originally published in 1923, the nineteenth edition of the International Workers of the World’s Little Red Songbook…
Jane: The Legendary Story of the Underground Abortion Service, 1968-1973
Before Roe v. Wade legalized abortion in the U.S. in 1973, the Abortion Counseling Services of Women’s Liberation was…
Obsessed with Bass: The Essential History of Miami Bass, 1985-1993
Late one night in Miami in 1985, Amos Larkins II was mixing the track “Commin’ In Fresh” by Double Duce…
Punk in NYC's Lower East Side 1981-1991
Much has been written about the glamorous and short-lived New York City punk rock scene of the late 1970s. Less has been…
Punks Around #4: The Minot, North Dakota Punk Scene 2001-2018
Minot may only be the fourth largest city in North Dakota, but it's a key player in the punk ecosphere. Home to the…
Robert Smalls: The Enslaved Man Who Stole a Confederate Ship, Broke the Code, & Freed a Village
During the Civil War, the enslaved Black crew of a Confederate ship was left to sleep on board overnight. Following a…
Seeds of Spring #1: A Mi'kmaq Teen Discovers Kropotkin, Punk, and Her Place in the World | The Prince & The Birch Tree
"The Prince & the Birch Tree" is the first comic in the 15-part Seeds of Spring series. Naguset begins to learn the…
So Death Will End: The Story of Forrest Bess, Outsider Artist and Gender Visionary 1911-1977
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 (Simple History Series)
The Spanish Civil War is part of John Gerlach's Simple History series! It’s 1936 and the world watches religious…
Teenage Castaways: True Stories of Shipwreck Survivors
These five true stories are about teenagers who survived shipwrecks and lived to tell their incredible stories. The…
Understanding Eugenics: The U.S. and Nazi Plans to Shape the Gene Pool & Control the Population
The "science" of eugenics—by which the genetic makeup of a population is shaped by controlling who does and doesn't…
White Riot / Black Massacre: A Brief History of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
In highly-segregated Tulsa, Oklahoma in June, 1921, a white mob attacked the mostly Black neighborhood of Greenwood.…
Pin #125I Read Zines
Wear your love of underground literature as a badge of pride! Because you never need to rely on a few giant corporations…
Christopher Columbus and His Expeditions to America
While past histories depict Christopher Columbus as either god-sent angel or bloodthirsty demon, Simple History Series…
The Least We Can Do: White Supremacy, Free Speech, and Independent Bookstores
Like most of our cultural institutions and workers, bookshops and booksellers have worked hard in the last few years to…
Lebanon Revolts
An impassioned narrative poem contrasted with simple but powerful sketches of the revolution, this story of the Lebanese…
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…