Topic: U.S. History


$16.95 Add to Cart	A Young Peoples History of the United States Vol. 1 by Howard Zinn A retelling of U.S. history from the viewpoints of slaves, workers, immigrants, women, Native Americans and others whose histories are rarely included in books for young people. Also see Volume 2 MORE INFO
$17.95 Add to Cart	A Young Peoples History of the United States Volume Two by Howard Zinn Class Struggle to the War on Terror. In Volume Two, Howard Zinn's lively, clear prose takes the reader through the wars and revolutions of the twentieth century. MORE INFO
$15.95 Add to Cart	Cheap Motels and a Hot Plate - An Economist's Travelogue by Michael D Yates Here's the travel book the chamber of commerce doesn't want you to have. It shows you the way to places of great beauty, but it also invites you into the parts of real America that other books avoid ... MORE INFO
$19.95 Add to Cart	Marxism, Reparations and the Black Freedom Struggle Within these pages is flesh-and-blood understanding that the demand for reparations—justice, delayed and denied—is a component of a dynamic struggle for national liberation that has raged since mass kidnappings of millions of people from Africa, the holocaust of the Middle Passage and enslavement. MORE INFO
$14.00 Add to Cart	Here I Stand by Paul Robeson "Blacklisted," his famed voice silenced, Robeson wrote Here I Stand as a bold answer to his accusers. It remains today a defiant challenge to the prevailing fear and racism that continues to characterize U.S. society. MORE INFO
$11.95 Add to Cart	Superpatriotism by Michael Parenti Brilliantly challenging the nationalistic hype propagated by officialdom, the media, the sports world, and the military, this book argues for pursuing policies at home and abroad that serve the real needs of humanity. MORE INFO
$16.95 Add to Cart	A Power Governments Cannot Suppress by Howard Zinn A major new collection of essays on U.S. history, class, immigration, justice, and more. MORE INFO
$14.95 Add to Cart	Born on the Fourth of July by Ron Kovic This classic is updated with a new introduction by the author. Ron Kovic calls on this new generation to stop the U.S. war in Iraq, "...I have watched in horror the mirror image of another Vietnam unfolding. So many similarities, so many things said that remind me of that war thirty years ago that left me paralyzed for the rest of my life." MORE INFO
$18.95 Add to Cart	Contrary Notions The Michael Parenti Reader This book is a powerful selection of Michael Parenti's most lucid and penetrating writings on real history, political life, empire, wealth, class power, technology, culture, ideology, media, environment, sex, and ethnicity. MORE INFO
$15.95 Add to Cart	Ecology of Fear by Mike Davis Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster "[Mike Davis'] genius lies in divining the connections between social injustice and ecological distress ..." —Susan Faludi, author of Backlash MORE INFO
$18.95 Add to Cart	A People's History of the United States 1492 - Present By Howard Zinn. Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the United States is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of—and in the words of—America's women, factory workers, African Americans, Native Americans, working poor, and immigrant laborers. MORE INFO
$14.95 Add to Cart	The Shame of the Nation The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America By Jonathan Kozol. Since the federal courts began dismantling the landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, segregation of Black children has reverted to its highest level since 1968. Filled with the passionate voices of children, principals, and teachers, and some of the most revered leaders in the Black community, this book directly challenges the chilling practices now being forced upon our urban systems by the Bush administration. MORE INFO