U.S. History
102 titles
Music CDs
N’golá (São Tomé) - Our Ancestors Swam to Shore CD
N’golá (São Tomé)This CD showcases the rarely heard music of Angolar Creole (N’golá) speakers from the African islands of São Tomé and Príncipe, many of whom are descendants of escaped Angolan slaves who swam to shore after a shipwreck.
$14.95
Music CDs
Ancestor Sounds - Africatown CD
Ancestor SoundsAn album of landmark recordings featuring residents of the Africatown community, including descendants from the last slave ship brought to America.
$14.95
Books
Burglar for Peace: Lessons Learned in the Catholic Left's Resistance to the Vietnam War
Ted Glick
The incredible story of the Catholic Left—also known as the Ultra Resistance—from the late 1960s to the early ‘70s.
The incredible story of the Catholic Left—also known as the Ultra Resistance—from the late 1960s to the early ‘70s.
$20.00
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Save the Humans? Common Preservation in Action
Jeremy Brecher
A unique and revealing interpretation of how social movements arise and how they change the world.
A unique and revealing interpretation of how social movements arise and how they change the world.
$20.00
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Common Preservation: In a Time of Mutual Destruction
Jeremy Brecher
A tool kit for thinkers and activists—to understand and create new forms of common preservation.
A tool kit for thinkers and activists—to understand and create new forms of common preservation.
$26.95
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Haste to Rise: A Remarkable Experience of Black Education during Jim Crow
David Pilgrim & Franklin Hughes
Haste to Rise is a challenge to others to look beyond a university’s official history and seek a more complete knowledge of its past. This is American history done right!
Haste to Rise is a challenge to others to look beyond a university’s official history and seek a more complete knowledge of its past. This is American history done right!
$20.00
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Strike!: 50th Anniversary Edition
Jeremy Brecher
Strike! narrates the dramatic story of repeated, massive, and sometimes violent revolts by ordinary working people in America. The new edition contains over a hundred pages of new materials.
Strike! narrates the dramatic story of repeated, massive, and sometimes violent revolts by ordinary working people in America. The new edition contains over a hundred pages of new materials.
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Homestead Steel Mill—the Final Ten Years: USWA Local 1397 and the Fight for Union Democracy
Mike Stout
This is an insider’s portrait of the union at U.S. Steel’s Homestead Works, specifically the workers, activists, and insurgents that made up the radically democratic Rank and File Caucus from 1977 to 1987.
This is an insider’s portrait of the union at U.S. Steel’s Homestead Works, specifically the workers, activists, and insurgents that made up the radically democratic Rank and File Caucus from 1977 to 1987.
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Bullet Points and Punch Lines: The Most Important Commentary Ever Written on the Epic American Tragicomedy
Lee Camp
Camp knifes his way through the jungle of fake news, alternative facts, mainstream media lies, and government blackouts.
Camp knifes his way through the jungle of fake news, alternative facts, mainstream media lies, and government blackouts.
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Working-Class Heroes: A History of Struggle in Song: A Songbook
Mat Callahan and Yvonne Moore
An organic melding of history, music, and politics that demonstrates with remarkably colorful evidence that workers everywhere will struggle to improve their conditions of life.
$14.95
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Working-Class Heroes CD
Mat Callahan and Yvonne Moore
A collection of American working-class, pre–World War II folk songs.
A collection of American working-class, pre–World War II folk songs.
$14.95
Books
Radical America Komiks
Editor: Gilbert Shelton • Introduction: Paul Buhle • Foreword: Jay Kinney
Dopey but also militantly antimilitarist, the comics in this reprinted volume speak to the ideas, sentiments, and artistic experiments of a generation.
Dopey but also militantly antimilitarist, the comics in this reprinted volume speak to the ideas, sentiments, and artistic experiments of a generation.
$14.95
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White Lives Matter Most: And Other "Little" White Lies
Matt Meyer • Foreword: Sonia Sanchez
These essays reveal the successful strategies and methods used in recent campaigns to free Puerto Rican and Black Panther political prisoners, confront neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, and more.
These essays reveal the successful strategies and methods used in recent campaigns to free Puerto Rican and Black Panther political prisoners, confront neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, and more.
$14.95
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On the Fly! Hobo Literature and Songs, 1879-1941
Editor: Iain McIntyre
This anthology brings forth the lost voices of Hobohemia.
This anthology brings forth the lost voices of Hobohemia.
$27.95
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Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity in the San Francisco Bay Area
Richard A. Walker
This sweeping account of the Bay Area in the age of the tech boom covers many bases.
This sweeping account of the Bay Area in the age of the tech boom covers many bases.
$26.95
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DVDs
Symbols of Resistance: A Tribute to the Martyrs of the Chican@ Movement (DVD)
Freedom Archives
Symbols of Resistance illuminates the untold stories of the Chican@ Movement with a focus on events in Colorado and New Mexico.
Symbols of Resistance illuminates the untold stories of the Chican@ Movement with a focus on events in Colorado and New Mexico.
$0.00
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The Global Imagination of 1968: Revolution and Counterrevolution
George Katsiaficas
This book brings to life social movements of the 1960s, a period of world-historical struggles.
This book brings to life social movements of the 1960s, a period of world-historical struggles.
$24.95
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Written in Blood: Courage and Corruption in the Appalachian War of Extraction
Editor: Wess Harris
Written in Blood features the work of Appalachia’s leading scholars and activists making available an accurate, ungilded, and uncensored understanding of our history.
Written in Blood features the work of Appalachia’s leading scholars and activists making available an accurate, ungilded, and uncensored understanding of our history.
$19.95
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Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors: Stories from the Jim Crow Museum
David Pilgrim
Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors uses images from the Jim Crow Museum and stories from the author's journey, challenging the integrity of racial narratives.
Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors uses images from the Jim Crow Museum and stories from the author's journey, challenging the integrity of racial narratives.
$24.95
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The Explosion of Deferred Dreams: Musical Renaissance and Social Revolution in San Francisco, 1965-1975
Mat Callahan
The Explosion of Deferred Dreams offers a critical re-examination of the interwoven political and musical happenings in San Francisco in the Sixties.
The Explosion of Deferred Dreams offers a critical re-examination of the interwoven political and musical happenings in San Francisco in the Sixties.
$22.95
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Other Avenues Are Possible: Legacy of the People's Food System of the San Francisco Bay Area
Shanta Nimbark Sacharoff
Other Avenues Are Possible offers a vivid account of the dramatic rise and fall of the San Francisco People’s Food System of the 1970s.
Other Avenues Are Possible offers a vivid account of the dramatic rise and fall of the San Francisco People’s Food System of the 1970s.
$14.95
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Joe Hill: The IWW & the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture, Second Edition
Franklin Rosemont
A monumental work, expansive in scope, covering the life, times, and culture of that most famous of the Wobblies—songwriter, poet, hobo, thinker, humorist, martyr—Joe Hill.
A monumental work, expansive in scope, covering the life, times, and culture of that most famous of the Wobblies—songwriter, poet, hobo, thinker, humorist, martyr—Joe Hill.
$29.95
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Understanding Jim Crow: Using Racist Memorabilia to Teach Tolerance and Promote Social Justice
David Pilgrim
This book introduces readers to the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia, a collection of more than ten thousand contemptible collectibles that are used to engage visitors in intense and intelligent discussions about race.
This book introduces readers to the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia, a collection of more than ten thousand contemptible collectibles that are used to engage visitors in intense and intelligent discussions about race.
$24.95
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The Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day
Peter Linebaugh
A compendium of reflections on the occasion of May 1st. The book is a reminder of the potentialities of the future, for the coming of a time when the powerful will fall, the commons restored, and a better world born anew.
A compendium of reflections on the occasion of May 1st. The book is a reminder of the potentialities of the future, for the coming of a time when the powerful will fall, the commons restored, and a better world born anew.
$16.95
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Music CDs
N’golá (São Tomé) - Our Ancestors Swam to Shore CD
N’golá (São Tomé)This CD showcases the rarely heard music of Angolar Creole (N’golá) speakers from the African islands of São Tomé and Príncipe, many of whom are descendants of escaped Angolan slaves who swam to shore after a shipwreck.
$14.95
Music CDs
Ancestor Sounds - Africatown CD
Ancestor SoundsAn album of landmark recordings featuring residents of the Africatown community, including descendants from the last slave ship brought to America.
$14.95
Books
Burglar for Peace: Lessons Learned in the Catholic Left's Resistance to the Vietnam War
Ted Glick
The incredible story of the Catholic Left—also known as the Ultra Resistance—from the late 1960s to the early ‘70s.
$20.00
Books
Save the Humans? Common Preservation in Action
Jeremy Brecher
A unique and revealing interpretation of how social movements arise and how they change the world.
$20.00
Books
Common Preservation: In a Time of Mutual Destruction
Jeremy Brecher
A tool kit for thinkers and activists—to understand and create new forms of common preservation.
$26.95
Books
Haste to Rise: A Remarkable Experience of Black Education during Jim Crow
David Pilgrim & Franklin Hughes
Haste to Rise is a challenge to others to look beyond a university’s official history and seek a more complete knowledge of its past. This is American history done right!
$20.00
Books
Strike!: 50th Anniversary Edition
Jeremy Brecher
Strike! narrates the dramatic story of repeated, massive, and sometimes violent revolts by ordinary working people in America. The new edition contains over a hundred pages of new materials.
From $9.95
Books
Homestead Steel Mill—the Final Ten Years: USWA Local 1397 and the Fight for Union Democracy
Mike Stout
This is an insider’s portrait of the union at U.S. Steel’s Homestead Works, specifically the workers, activists, and insurgents that made up the radically democratic Rank and File Caucus from 1977 to 1987.
From $9.95
Books
Bullet Points and Punch Lines: The Most Important Commentary Ever Written on the Epic American Tragicomedy
Lee Camp
Camp knifes his way through the jungle of fake news, alternative facts, mainstream media lies, and government blackouts.
From $9.95
Books
Working-Class Heroes: A History of Struggle in Song: A Songbook
Mat Callahan and Yvonne Moore
An organic melding of history, music, and politics that demonstrates with remarkably colorful evidence that workers everywhere will struggle to improve their conditions of life.
$14.95
Books
Working-Class Heroes CD
Mat Callahan and Yvonne Moore
A collection of American working-class, pre–World War II folk songs.
$14.95
Books
Radical America Komiks
Editor: Gilbert Shelton • Introduction: Paul Buhle • Foreword: Jay Kinney
Dopey but also militantly antimilitarist, the comics in this reprinted volume speak to the ideas, sentiments, and artistic experiments of a generation.
$14.95
Books
White Lives Matter Most: And Other "Little" White Lies
Matt Meyer • Foreword: Sonia Sanchez
These essays reveal the successful strategies and methods used in recent campaigns to free Puerto Rican and Black Panther political prisoners, confront neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, and more.
$14.95
Books
On the Fly! Hobo Literature and Songs, 1879-1941
Editor: Iain McIntyre
This anthology brings forth the lost voices of Hobohemia.
$27.95
Books
Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity in the San Francisco Bay Area
Richard A. Walker
This sweeping account of the Bay Area in the age of the tech boom covers many bases.
$26.95
DVDs
Symbols of Resistance: A Tribute to the Martyrs of the Chican@ Movement (DVD)
Freedom Archives
Symbols of Resistance illuminates the untold stories of the Chican@ Movement with a focus on events in Colorado and New Mexico.
$0.00
Books
The Global Imagination of 1968: Revolution and Counterrevolution
George Katsiaficas
This book brings to life social movements of the 1960s, a period of world-historical struggles.
$24.95
Books
Written in Blood: Courage and Corruption in the Appalachian War of Extraction
Editor: Wess Harris
Written in Blood features the work of Appalachia’s leading scholars and activists making available an accurate, ungilded, and uncensored understanding of our history.
$19.95
Books
Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors: Stories from the Jim Crow Museum
David Pilgrim
Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors uses images from the Jim Crow Museum and stories from the author's journey, challenging the integrity of racial narratives.
$24.95
Books
The Explosion of Deferred Dreams: Musical Renaissance and Social Revolution in San Francisco, 1965-1975
Mat Callahan
The Explosion of Deferred Dreams offers a critical re-examination of the interwoven political and musical happenings in San Francisco in the Sixties.
$22.95
Books
Other Avenues Are Possible: Legacy of the People's Food System of the San Francisco Bay Area
Shanta Nimbark Sacharoff
Other Avenues Are Possible offers a vivid account of the dramatic rise and fall of the San Francisco People’s Food System of the 1970s.
$14.95
Books
Joe Hill: The IWW & the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture, Second Edition
Franklin Rosemont
A monumental work, expansive in scope, covering the life, times, and culture of that most famous of the Wobblies—songwriter, poet, hobo, thinker, humorist, martyr—Joe Hill.
$29.95
Books
Understanding Jim Crow: Using Racist Memorabilia to Teach Tolerance and Promote Social Justice
David Pilgrim
This book introduces readers to the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia, a collection of more than ten thousand contemptible collectibles that are used to engage visitors in intense and intelligent discussions about race.
$24.95
Books
The Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day
Peter Linebaugh
A compendium of reflections on the occasion of May 1st. The book is a reminder of the potentialities of the future, for the coming of a time when the powerful will fall, the commons restored, and a better world born anew.
$16.95