History

In November of 2015 we visited the Woody Guthrie Museum in Tulsa. It's really amazing and you should check it out if…

We picked these books because being a teenager is a crappy deal and sometimes you have to figure out your own way…

This Celebrate People's History poster (part of a series by the justseeds artist collective) commemorates the burning of…

*Have your poster shipped in a Poster Tube for extra protection! Posters not shipped in tubes will be folded in half for…

A century ago, Marshall "Major" Taylor was the fastest man in America and a sports hero idolized worldwide—bigger than…

The people of Egypt have been conquered by the Hyksos, the Persians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Arabs, the Ottomans,…

What are graphic novels for? Lots of different things, and one of the best is journalism—reporting on real-life…

The late 1960s, when the Panthers captured the imagination of the nation’s youth, was a time of regulation. While…

For many people in modern America, it is difficult to understand what it was like to be an African American living under…

Five great documentaries on that sadly antiquated format, the Betamax tape. Just kidding—they're all on DVDs. We're so…

Edward Snowden is one of the most controversial people of modern times. Whistleblower, fugitive, either a traitorous…

Indispensable for every home, library, and office, The Knowledge Book distills thousands of years of humankind’s…

Jessica Abel's new comics journalism book, On the Wire, is the nonfiction graphic novel format story of the rise of the…

So this guy Pete Jordan used to write a zine called "Dishwasher" all about, you know, washing dishes in restaurants. And…

Schoolhouse Rock called this number its hero, and it's been making huge impacts and stirring up controversy since long…

On a global scale, violence against women is so common that some experts consider it a “normal” aspect of women’s…

Here are somemore of Jeff's Favorites. In this one he'd like to take you through the full spectrum of emotion.…

In 1979, punk was over . . . but by 1981, hardcore was born. As teenagers in 1981, best friends David Markey and Jordan…

Celebrate whatever independence you've got by reading some books that'll set off mental fireworks and get you moving and…

This is a novel that reads as a page-turning, barely-fictionalized memoir about squatting in New York City in the 90s. A…

Since its publication by Sierra Club Books in 1977, The Unsettling of America has been recognized as a classic of…

Focusing primarily on his contributions to linguistics, Introducing Chomsky traces Noam Chomsky's understanding of…

This is the book that predicted the 1992 LA riots. Mike Davis gives us a full bore analysis of Los Angeles culture,…

This updated study of the economics, politics, and ecology of water explores more than a century of both public and…

We all know that history is written by the winners—and the powerful—but how much of it is actually fiction? And who…

It's one of the biggest fights against injustice you've never even heard about. In 1891, coal companies in eastern…

Ian Brady and Myra Hindley's spree of torture, sexual abuse, and murder of children in the 1960s was one of the most…