U.S. History

Bill Campbell • Illustrator: Bizhan Khodabandeh
A fictionalized retelling of a KKK riot that occurred in Carnegie, PA, in 1923 and the resistance to it.

Noam Chomsky
A conversational interview between Michael Albert and Chomsky spanning a wide range of topics.

Peter Cole • Foreword: Robin D.G. Kelley
The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly tells the story of one of the greatest heroes of the American working class.

Marcy Rein, Mickey Ellinger, and Vicki Legion • Foreword by Pauline Lipman
The story of the five years of organizing that turned a seemingly hopeless defensive fight into a victory for the most progressive free college measure in the US.

James W. Loewen
The intimate and often humorous memoir by the author of Lies My Teacher Told Me.

Jeremy Brecher
A tool kit for thinkers and activists—to understand and create new forms of common preservation.

Jeremy Brecher
A unique and revealing interpretation of how social movements arise and how they change the world.

Ted Glick
The incredible story of the Catholic Left—also known as the Ultra Resistance—from the late 1960s to the early ‘70s.

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!

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.

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.

Lee Camp
Camp knifes his way through the jungle of fake news, alternative facts, mainstream media lies, and government blackouts.

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.

Mat Callahan and Yvonne Moore
A collection of American working-class, pre–World War II folk songs.

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.

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.

Ward Churchill
Wielding Words like Weapons is a collection of acclaimed American Indian Movement activist-intellectual Ward Churchill’s essays in indigenism, selected from material written during the decade 1995–2005.

Editor: Iain McIntyre
This anthology brings forth the lost voices of Hobohemia.

Richard A. Walker
This sweeping account of the Bay Area in the age of the tech boom covers many bases.

Freedom Archives
Symbols of Resistance illuminates the untold stories of the Chican@ Movement with a focus on events in Colorado and New Mexico.

Photographer: Howard Epstein • Introduction: Ken Light • Editor: Grendl Löfkvist
Black and White is a book of 32 evocative images of political conflict and confrontations in the streets taken by Howard Epstein when he was a photo

George Katsiaficas
This book brings to life social movements of the 1960s, a period of world-historical struggles.

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.

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.

Nobuo Nishi
Visions of Peace and Justice, Volume 2 contains the images of posters printed at Inkworks Press from 2008 to its closing in December 2015.