U.S. History

Stayin’ Alive

The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class

Jefferson Cowie

The tortuous path from Nixon to Reagan—think Archie Bunker, Dog Day Afternoon, and Merle Haggard—in a major new work on the cultural and political history of the 1970s, from a prizewinning historian

The Freedoms We Lost

Consent and Resistance in Revolutionary America

Barbara Clark Smith

A brilliant and original examination of American freedom as it existed before the Revolution, from the Smithsonian’s curator of social history

1877

America's Year of Living Violently

Michael A. Bellesiles

A sweeping history that brilliantly recaptures one of the few truly pivotal years in U.S. history, with a flamboyant cast of characters from Billy the Kid to John D. Rockefeller

The Citizen Machine

Governing by Television in 1950s America

Anna McCarthy

The little-known civic mission of early television broadcasting, recounted by a star in Cinema Studies

Not Written in Stone

Learning and Unlearning American History Through 200 Years of Textbooks

Kyle Ward

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL: In the great tradition of James R Loewen's Lies My Teacher Told Me, a teaching version of the book that offers a crash course in the “history of history,” and how contemporary prejudices color the way each generation looks at the nation’s past

Protest Nation

Words That Inspired a Century of American Radicalism

Edited by Timothy Patrick McCarthy and John McMillian

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL:  From Eugene Debs to Paul Robeson, Angela Davis, and Harvey Milk—a compendium of words that spurred American Radical thought and action, from the early twentieth century to the present

Lloyd C. Gardner

NOW IN PAPERBACK -  The stunning investigation of the deep historical roots of the U.S. misadventure in Iraq—all the more timely as the U.S. involvement in Afghanistan deepens


 

The Empire Strikes Out

How Baseball Sold U.S. Foreign Policy and Promoted the American Way Abroad

Robert Elias

Mixing sharp political analysis and compelling lore, an eye-opening look at baseball’s relationship to American empire, from the revolutionary era to the present

A Bomb in Every Issue

How the Short, Unruly Life of Ramparts Magazine Changed America

Peter Richardson

Now in paperback: A lavishly praised "lively history"  (Los Angeles Times) of Ramparts—the magazine that brought the New Left into American living rooms in the '60s and made an indelible imprint on American journalism

Lift Every Voice

The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement

Patricia Sullivan

Now in paperback: an epic narrative of the struggle against injustice, hailed as "the definitive history of the NAACP" by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Studs Terkel's Working

A Graphic Adaptation

Harvey Pekar

Edited by Paul Buhle

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL Comics impresario Harvey Pekar brings to vivid life Terkel’s bestselling masterpiece, with comics by America’s leading illustrators

Founders

The People Who Brought You a Nation

Ray Raphael

Now in paperback: a "highly readable" (Library Journal) new history of America's revolution and nation building that will "delight readers" (Publisher's Weekly), from the bestselling author of Founding Myths

Bombing Civilians

A Twentieth-Century History

Edited by Yuki Tanaka and Marilyn B. Young

Now in paperback: the first comprehensive historical analysis of one of the great horrors of modern times, hailed by Frida Berrigan as "a vividly detailed and profoundly troubling history of war fought from the air"

Al' America

Travels Through America’s Arab and Islamic Roots

Jonathan Curiel

From surf music to the ice cream cone—a lively and eye-opening look at the little-known influence of Arab and Islamic culture on America, by the San Francisco Chronicle journalist

A People’s History of Poverty in America

Stephen Pimpare

A sweeping, revelatory history of poverty in America from the seventeenth century to today, told through the eyes and experiences of the poor themselves

Home Fronts

A Wartime America Reader

Edited by Michael S. Foley and Brendan P. O’Malley

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL — An illuminating documentary history that reveals the effects of U.S. Military ventures overseas on more than a century of American life at home

Asian Americans in the Twenty-first Century

Oral Histories of First- to Fourth-Generation Americans from China, Japan, India, Korea, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Laos

Joann Faung Jean Lee

A follow-up to the 1992 bestselling classic Asian Americans —with all-new interviews that brilliantly illuminate the vibrant, ever-changing communities of Asian America

A People’s History of Sports in the United States

250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play

Dave Zirin

From the author Robert Lipsyte calls “The best young sportswriter in America”, a rollicking, rebellious, myth-busting history of sports in America that puts politics in the ring with pop culture

Jews and American Comics

An Illustrated History of an American Art Form

Edited by Paul Buhle

A treasure trove of Jewish comic book art by both acknowledge masters and little known-stars, from Rube Goldberg to Aline Kominsky Crumb

Bitterly Divided

The South's Inner Civil War

David Williams

NOW IN PAPERBACK: In a book that Kirkus calls “certain to provoke,”an absorbing look at the internal rift within the Confederacy, which tore apart the South during the Civil War

The Senator and the Sharecropper

The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer

Chris Myers Asch

The epic struggle for Black equality in the 20th century, told through the deeply-intertwined life histories of the staunch segregationist and his sharecropper nemesis

Framing the Black Panthers

The Spectacular Rise of a Black Power Icon

Jane Rhodes

A fascinating look at how the Black Panthers became symbols of black militancy in America

Black Radical

The Education of an American Revolutionary

Nelson Peery

An absorbing, firsthand account of an African American’s struggle for equality in the decades after World War II, by a writer the Washington Post calls “Wolfean and Whitmanesque”

You Have No Rights

Stories of America in an Age of Repression

Matthew Rothschild

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL Chilling stories of ordinary Americans whose everyday liberties have been violated since September 11

The Last Three Miles

Politics, Murder, and the Construction of America's First Superhighway

Steven Hart

In the tradition of Robert Caro’s The Power Broker, a sweeping, investigative history of the building of the road connecting Manhattan to the rest of the country

A Buffalo in the House

The True Story of a Man, an Animal, and the American West

R.D. Rosen

Marley and Me meets All creatures great and small, as an ailing but lovable orphan buffalo joins a Santa Fe household

The Big Eddy Club

David Rose

Race, injustice, and serial murder in the deep south—Midnight In the Garden of Good and Evil with an investigative edge

Coming of Age

Growing Up in the Twentieth Century

Studs Terkel

Inspired . . . the language spoken here is pure Terkel. —THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

From Welfare State to Real Estate

Regime Change in New York City, 1974 to the Present

Kim Moody

City of Quartz meets Gotham—the dark side of the glittering metropolis

Free at Last

A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War

Edited by Ira Berlin, Barbara J. Fields, Steven F. Miller, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie S. Rowland

A handsome new edition of an essential work by the groundbreaking historian of African American life in the nineteenth century

Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam

Or, How Not to Learn from the Past

Edited by Lloyd C. Gardner and Marilyn B. Young

Leading historians tease out the connections between the Vietnam War and the Iraq War—and point to the many lessons that went unlearned

Unchecked and Unbalanced

Presidential Power in a Time of Terror

Frederick A.O. Schwarz Jr., Aziz Z. Huq

A scathing portrait of contemporary executive power run amok, by the author of the original 1976 Church Committee Report on executive abuse

Gun Show Nation

Gun Culture and American Democracy

Joan Burbick

NOW IN PAPERBACK A stunning new exposé of the roots of American gun culture

History in the Making

An Absorbing Look at How American History Has Changed in the Telling over the Last 200 Years

Kyle Ward

NOW IN PAPERBACK A fascinating reminder of how contemporary prejudices color the way each generation looks at the nation’s past

Field Guide to the U.S. Economy

A Compact and Irreverent Guide to Economic Life in America

Jonathan Teller-Elsberg, James Heintz, Nancy Folbre

The twenty-first-century handbook to the myths and realities of the U.S. economy

Conspiracy in the Streets

The Extraordinary Trial of the Chicago Eight

Edited by Jon Wiener

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL On the stand with yippies, Black Panthers, and political activists at the conspiracy trial that defined the youth rebellion of the 1960s

Prophets of Protest

Reconsidering the History of American Abolitionism

Edited by Timothy Patrick McCarthy and John Stauffer

The first collection of original contributions on American abolitionism to appear in a generation

A People's History of the Civil War

Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom

David Williams

NOW IN PAPERBACK The acclaimed sweeping history of a nation at war with itself, told here for the first time by the people who lived it

Chinese America

The Untold Story of America's Oldest New Community

Peter Kwong, Dušanka Mišcevic

A sweeping portrait of one of America’s most distinctive communities from the bestselling author of The New Chinatown

Slavery in New York

Edited by Ira Berlin and Leslie M. Harris

A definitive account of the hitherto hidden slave past of America's first city

Sundown Towns

A Hidden Dimension of American Racism

James W. Loewen

The explosive story of racial exclusion in the North, from the American Book Award–winning author of Lies My Teacher Told Me

Jane Fonda’s War

A Political Biography of an Antiwar Icon

Mary Hershberger

An antidote to the "Hanoi Jane" myth, the first account of the celebrated actress's antiwar activism

Shattering the Glass

The Remarkable History of Women’s Basketball

Pamela Grundy, Susan Shackelford

The first major history of the most popular women’s team sport in the United States

Say It Plain

A Century of Great African American Speeches

Edited by Catherine Ellis and Stephen Drury Smith

NOW IN PAPERBACK An affordable text-only edition of a century of public speeches by the nation's greatest African American orators

Historians in Trouble

Plagiarism, Fraud, and Politics in the Ivory Tower

Jon Wiener

NOW IN PAPERBACK The revealing and much-discussed look behind the scenes of recent headline-grabbing controversies in the history profession

Fighting Words

An Illustrated History of Newspaper Accounts of the Civil War

Andrew S. Coopersmith

NOW IN PAPERBACK An intriguing picture of life during the Civil War, through the newspapers of the period

The Conquest of Bread

150 Years of Agribusiness in California

Richard A. Walker

A sweeping analysis of California's agrarian history from 1850 to the present

The War at Home

The Domestic Costs of Bush’s Militarism

Frances Fox Piven

NOW IN PAPERBACK A look at the hidden cost of the Iraq war by the preeminent social scientist

Myths of Free Trade

Why American Trade Policy Has Failed

Sherrod Brown

NOW IN PAPERBACK A revised and updated edition of the provocative book from the man Studs Terkel calls
“one of the hippest members of congress”

The Rise and Rise of Richard B. Cheney

Unlocking the Mysteries of the Most Powerful Vice President in American History

John Nichols

NOW IN PAPERBACK The indispensable portrait of the man who still runs the world

Founding Myths

Stories That Hide Our Patriotic Past

Ray Raphael

NOW IN PAPERBACK The highly praised book in which cherished stories from American history are exposed as myths

The New Victorians

Poverty, Politics, and Propaganda in Two Gilded Ages

Stephen Pimpare

A controversial history of the Victorian roots of today’s conservative anti-welfare crusaders

History Lessons

How Textbooks from Around the World Portray U.S. History

Dana Lindaman, Kyle Ward

NOW IN PAPERBACK The widely contrasting approaches to U.S. history that can be found in the textbooks of other nations

Cold War Triumphalism

The Misuse of History After the Fall of Communism

Edited by Ellen Schrecker

NOW IN PAPERBACK The book that is provoking a major reexamination of the legacy of the cold war

Brown v. Board

The Landmark Oral Argument Before the Supreme Court

Edited by Leon Friedman

The transcripts, never before available to the general reading public, of “the most important American governmental act of any kind since the Emancipation Proclamation” (Louis Pollack, Yale University)

Hope Dies Last

Keeping the Faith in Troubled Times

Studs Terkel

The latest oral history from the unrivaled master of the genre

The White House Tapes

Eavesdropping on the President

Edited by John Prados

Dead Cities

And Other Tales

Mike Davis

A riveting exploration of the tensions between nature and the built environment, by a leading urbanist

The Dream Life

Movies, Media, and the Mythology of the Sixties

J. Hoberman

A brilliant cultural history detailing the fascinating relationship between movies and American society in the 1960s

A People’s History of the Vietnam War

Jonathan Neale

NOW IN PAPERBACK The war in Indochina as seen by those who fought on both sides

Radical Hollywood

The Untold Story Behind America’s Favorite Movies

Paul Buhle, Dave Wagner

A controversial and fascinating rewriting of the history of cinema’s golden age

The Radical Reader

A Documentary History of the American Radical Tradition

Edited by Timothy Patrick McCarthy and John McMillian

Key documents illustrate the richness of the American radical tradition

A People’s History of the United States

Abridged Teaching Edition

Howard Zinn

A People’s History of the United States

Volume II: The Civil War to the Present

Howard Zinn

An abridged classroom edition of Howard Zinn's bestselling history of the United States, with teaching materials to accompany each chapter

A People's History of the United States

Volume I: American Beginnings to Reconstruction

Howard Zinn

An abridged classroom edition of Howard Zinn's bestselling history of the United States, with teaching materials to accompany each chapter            

For Reasons of State

Noam Chomsky

Chomsky’s major works now reissued by The New Press

The First American Revolution

Before Lexington and Concord

Ray Raphael

A bold new interpretation of America’s founding moment

Crossing into America

The New Literature of Immigration

Edited by Louis G. Mendoza and S. Shankar

A literary portrait of immigrant America including contributions from celebrated authors, young writers, and undocumented workers

White

The Biography of Walter White, Mr. NAACP

Kenneth Robert Janken

A publishing landmark, the first biography of the man who brought the NAACP to national prominence

The Unmaking of the American Working Class

Reg Theriault

A searingly candid account of work and class in America from the author of How to Tell When You’re Tired

Remembering Jim Crow

African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South

Edited by William H. Chafe, Raymond Gavins, and Robert Korstad

NOW IN PAPERBACK The sequel to Remembering Slavery, a groundbreaking collection of interviews about the segregation-era South

From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend

A Short, Illustrated History of Labor in the United States

A.B. Chitty

NOW IN PAPERBACK A “marvelously informed, carefully-crafted, far-ranging history of working people” (Noam Chomsky)

The Land Where the Blues Began

Alan Lomax

Winner of a 1993 National Book Critics Circle award, a rollicking memoir of the legendary folklorist's journey into blues country

Giants of Jazz

Studs Terkel

NOW IN PAPERBACK A beautifully illustrated edition of Studs Terkel’s timeless portraits of America’s jazz legends, for readers of all ages

American Power and the New Mandarins

Historical and Political Essays

Noam Chomsky

Back in print, the seminal work by “arguably the most important intellectual alive” (The New York Times)

The Unfinished City

New York and the Metropolitan Idea

Thomas Bender

Muckraking!

The Journalism That Changed America

Edited by Judith Serrin and William Serrin

Over 100 classics of American investigative journalism, from Tom Paine to Bob Woodward

The Second Amendment in Law and History

Historians and Constitutional Scholars on the Right to Bear Arms

Edited by Carl T. Bogus

A demystifying guide to the complex debates surrounding the constitutional right to bear arms

Unexpected Chicagoland

Camilo José Vergara, Timothy Samuelson

An exquisite homage to Chicago’s architecture and people, from the renowned documentary photographer and the acclaimed architectural historian

Working-Class New York

Life and Labor Since World War II

Joshua B. Freeman

NOW IN PAPERBACK a “lucid, detailed, and imaginative analysis” (The Nation) of the model city that working-class New Yorkers created after World War II—and its tragic demise

Dr. Seuss Goes to War

The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel

Richard H. Minear

NOW IN PAPERBACK The bestselling treasure trove of World War II political cartoons by Dr. Seuss

A People’s History of the American Revolution

How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence

Ray Raphael

The best single-volume history of the Revolution I have read.
—Howard Zinn

The Cultural Cold War

The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters

Frances Stonor Saunders

NOW IN PAPERBACK “the most comprehensive account yet of the [CIA’s] activities between 1947 and 1967” (The New York Times)

Chinatown, N.Y.

Labor and Politics, 1930–1950

Peter Kwong

Hard Times

An Oral History of the Great Depression

Studs Terkel

Elegant new paperback editions of two of Studs Terkel’s classic oral histories

Economic Apartheid in America

A Primer on Economic Inequality and Insecurity

Chuck Collins, Felice Yeskel

REVISED PAPERBACK Following the 2004 presidential election, a graphic portrait of the growing gap between the rich and everyone else in America

The Kissinger Transcripts

The Top-Secret Talks with Beijing and Moscow

William Burr

Lies Across America

What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong

James W. Loewen

American Dreams

Lost and Found

Studs Terkel

Here is the raw material for one thousand novels. . . incomparable.  —MARGARET ATWOOD

The Monkey Suit

And Other Short Fiction on African Americans and Justice

David Dante Troutt

Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962

A National Security Archive Documents Reader

Edited by Laurence Chang and Peter Kornbluh

The Lexicon of Labor

More Than 500 Key Terms, Biographical Sketches, and Historical Insights Concerning Labor in America

R. Emmett Murray

PAPERBACK A thoroughly updated edition of the clever, fun-to-read compilation of union language and lore

Remembering Slavery

African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation

Edited by Ira Berlin, Marc Favreau, and Steven F. Miller

Bay of Pigs Declassified

The Secret CIA Report on the Invasion of Cuba

Edited by Peter Kornbluh

The Studs Terkel Reader

My American Century

Studs Terkel

A new addition to the collection of elegant reissues of the Studs Terkel Oeuvre

Families and Freedom

A Documentary History of African-American Kinship in the Civil War Era

Edited by Ira Berlin and Leslie S. Rowland

Black Heritage Sites

The North, Volume 1

Nancy C. Curtis

Black Heritage Sites

The South, Volume 2

Nancy C. Curtis

The Abandonment of the Jews

America and the Holocaust, 1941–1945

David S. Wyman

A handsome new paperback edition of the bestselling classic on America’s response to the Nazi assault on European Jews

The Cold War and the University

Toward an Intellectual History of the Postwar Years

Noam Chomsky, Ira Katznelson, R.C. Lewontin, David Montgomery, Laura Nader, Richard Ohmann, Ray Siever, Immanuel Wallerstein, Howard Zinn

The Color of Politics

Race and the Mainsprings of American Politics

Michael Goldfield

East to America

Korean American Life Stories

Elaine H. Kim, Eui-Young Yu

Like a Hurricane

The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee

Paul Chaat Smith, Robert Allen Warrior

Ellis Island and the Peopling of America

The Official Guide

Virginia Yans-McLaughlin

Inside U.S.A.

John Gunther

“The Good War"

An Oral History of World War II

Studs Terkel

  

Working

People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do

Studs Terkel

In celebration of his 2003 Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle, one of three of Studs Terkel’s classics in handsome new paperback editions

The Native American Look Book

Art and Activities for Kids from The Brooklyn Museum

The Brooklyn Museum

Freedom's Unfinished Revolution

An Inquiry into the Civil War and Reconstruction

Edited by American Social History Project

White House E-Mail

The Secret Computer Message the Reagan/Bush White House Tried to Destory

Edited by Tom Blanton

Ellis Island

Georges Perec

Black Fire

The Making of an American Revolutionary

Nelson Peery

A People’s History of the United States

The Wall Charts

Howard Zinn, George Kirschner

PAPERBACK/POSTERS Zinn’s classic work in its most innovative format, the long out-of-print myth-busting posters

Robes of Splendor

Native North American Painted Buffalo Hides

George P. Horse Capture, Anne Vitart, Michael Waldberger

Talking to Myself

A Memoir of My Times

Studs Terkel

Art of the American Indian Frontier

A Portfolio

David W. Penney, Detroit Institute of Arts

Paul Robeson

A Biography

Martin Duberman

A monumental and powerfully affecting portrait of one of this century’s most notable performers, political radicals, and champions of racial equality.                                            

Subversion as Foreign Policy

The Secret Eisenhower and Dulles Debacle in Indonesia

Audrey R. Kahin, George McT. Kahin

Shooting Back from the Reservation

A Photographic View of Life by Native American Youth

Jim Hubbard

Anatomy of a War

Vietnam, the United States, and the Modern Historical Experience

Gabriel Kolko

May It Please the Court

Live Recordings and Transcripts of Landmark Oral Arguments Made Before the Supreme Court Since 1955

Edited by Peter Irons and Stephanie Guitton

PAPERBACK/CDS A new edition of the bestselling book-and-audio set of supreme court oral arguments—now available on MP3 audio CDs*

Portraits of Native Americans

Photographs from the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition

Charles H. Carpenter

Up South

Stories, Studies, and Letters of This Century's African American Migrations

Edited by Malaika Adero

With Liberty and Justice for Some

A Critique of the Conservative Supreme Court

David Kairys

The Iran-Contra Scandal

The Declassified History

Edited by Peter Kornbluh and Malcolm Byrne

Shared Visions

Native American Painters and Sculptors in the Twentieth Century

Edited by Margaret Archuleta and Rennard Strickland

Division Street

America

Studs Terkel

A new paperback edition of the groundbreaking book that first made Studs Terkel a household name

Slaves Without Masters

The Free Negro in the Antebellum South

Ira Berlin

A handsome new edition of an essential work by the groundbreaking historian of African American Life in the nineteenth century

Asian Americans

Oral Histories of First to Fourth Generation Americans from China, the Philippines, Japan, India, the Pacific Islands, Vietnam, and Cambodia

Joann Faung Jean Lee

Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus

What Your History Books Got Wrong

James W. Loewen

The American book award winner’s long out-of-print, myth-busting poster book, sure to be of interest to the million-plus buyers of Lies My Teacher Told Me

Race

How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession

Studs Terkel

The kind of book that happens along once in a long while.
—The New York Times

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