U.S. History

Lincoln Cushing
Visions of Peace & Justice Volume 1 contains over 400 full color reproductions of political posters from the archives of Inkworks Press.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Kris Hermes
This book shows how events in 2000 acted as a testing ground to develop repressive policing methods now used across the U.S., as well as providing a laboratory for radical, innovative, and confrontational forms of legal support.

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.

Shin Eun-jung
A critical examination of Harvard’s monumental but disconcerting global influence and power, this book examines aspects of Harvard’s history not generally known.

J. Sakai
Settlers uncovers the collaboration between capitalism and white workers and their organizations, as well as their neocolonial allies, showing how the U.S. was designed from the ground up as a parasitic and genocidal entity.

Paul Krassner
Patty Hearst & The Twinkie Murders is darkly satiric take on two of the most famous cases of our era: the kidnapping of heiress Patty Hearst and the shocking assassination of San Francisco gay leader Harvey Milk.

Dan Berger
The Struggle Within is an accessible yet wide-ranging historical primer about how mass imprisonment has been a tool of repression deployed against diverse left-wing social movements over the last fifty years.

Utah Phillips
Starlight on the Rails is the most complete collection of Utah’s songs ever released. Spanning 30 years of studio, live, and unreleased recordings this set includes Utah’s reflections about each song.

scott crow
A memoir of resisting indifference, rebuilding hope amid collapse, and struggling against the grain. This edition includes new discussions on disaster relief, infiltration and surveillance from the State, and new photos.

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Walker C. Smith, and William E. Trautmann
The pamphlets reprinted here were first published in the 1910s amid great controversy edited here and with an introduction by Salvatore Salerno.

Peter Linebaugh
This majestic tour de force takes aim at the thieves of land, the polluters of the seas, the ravagers of the forests, the despoilers of rivers, and the removers of mountaintops.

Peter Kuper
Drawn to New York is a reflection of one artist's thirty-four years on twelve miles of island with eight million people in a city whose story is ever being written.

C.L.R. James, Raya Dunayevskaya, and Grace Lee Boggs
This is a pioneering critique of Lenin and Trotsky, and a reclamation of Marx.

Oscar López Rivera • Editor: Luis Nieves Falcón
Through photographs, paintings, and graphic content, Oscar's life is made strikingly accessible—so all can understand why this man has been deemed dangerous to the U.S. government.

Robert Hillary King
This story is simply and humbly told, it strips bare the economic and social injustices inherent in our society, while continuing to be a powerful literary testimony to our own strength and capacity to overcome.

Staughton Lynd
Accompanying distinguishes two strategies of social change, "organizing" and "accompaniment," and applies them to five social movements.

Ronald A. Kuykendall
This alternative perspective on the problem of American race relations takes sharp aim at issues of status, power, and political class.

Editors: Elizabeth Betita Martínez, Mandy Carter, and Matt Meyer
A collection of articles from scholars and activists exploring the major points of intersection between white supremacy and the war machine and what needs to be done.

John Curl
Seeking to reclaim a history that has remained largely ignored by most historians, this dramatic and stirring account examines American cooperative movements for social change that have been all but erased from collective memory.

Editors: Iain Boal, Janferie Stone, Michael Watts, and Cal Winslow
Explores the roots and legacies of the pulse of radical energies that generated forms of collective life beyond the nuclear family and the world of private consumption.