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Rethinking America’s Past: Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States in the Classroom and Beyond
Robert Cohen, Sonia Murrow
No introductory work of American history has had more influence over the past forty years than Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States, which since its publication in 1980 has sold more than three million copies. Zinn’s iconoclastic critique of American militarism, racism, and capitalism has drawn bitter criticism from the Right, most recently […]
The Future of History
Howard Zinn, David Barsamian
David Barsamian interviews Howard Zinn. Common Courage Press, 1999; 192 pages. Who will control the past – and the future? In these panoramic interviews (1989-1998), Howard Zinn makes sense of events as only he can, proving not only that history isn’t dead, but that with luck, it may just be getting going. An enjoyable and […]
Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet
Noam Chomsky, Robert Pollin
In this compelling new book, Noam Chomsky, the world’s leading public intellectual, and Robert Pollin, a renowned progressive economist, map out the catastrophic consequences of unchecked climate change—and present a realistic blueprint for change: the Green New Deal. Together, Chomsky and Pollin show how the forecasts for a hotter planet strain the imagination: vast stretches […]
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
James Loewen
“Every teacher, every student of history, every citizen should read this book. It is both a refreshing antidote to what has passed for history in our educational system and a one-volume education in itself.” —Howard Zinn What started out as a survey of the twelve leading American history textbooks has ended up being what the San […]
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortíz
This class-savvy peoples’ history explores the silences haunting our national narrative. Like her friend historian Howard Zinn, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is a great rememberer and researcher. This brilliant bottom-up people’s history places settler-colonialism and genocide exactly where they belong: as foundational to the existence of the U.S. Told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and how they […]
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
Angela Davis
In these collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world. Reflecting on the importance of black feminism, intersectionality, and prison abolitionism for today’s struggles, she discusses the legacies of previous liberation struggles, from the Black Freedom […]
Hopes and Prospects
Noam Chomsky
“This is a classic Chomsky work: a bonfire of myths and lies, sophistries and delusions. Noam Chomsky is an enduring inspiration all over the world to millions, I suspect, for the simple reason that he is a truth-teller on an epic scale. I salute him.” – John Pilger In this urgent new book, Noam Chomsky […]
What We Say Goes: Conversations on U.S. Power in a Changing World
David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky
David Barsamian interviews Noam Chomsky. Metropolitan Books, 2007; 240 pages. In this new collection of conversations, Noam Chomsky explores the most immediate and urgent concerns: Iran’s challenge to the United States, the deterioration of the Israel-Palestine conflict, the ongoing occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, the rise of China, and the growing power of the left […]
Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance
Noam Chomsky
Covid-19 has revealed glaring failures and monstrous brutalities in the current capitalist system. It represents both a crisis and an opportunity. Everything depends on the actions that people take into their own hands. How does politics shape our world, our lives and our perceptions? How much of ‘common sense’ is actually driven by the ruling […]
On Power and Ideology: The Managua Lectures
Noam Chomsky
One of Noam Chomsky’s most accessible books, On Power and Ideology is a product of his 1986 visit to Managua, Nicaragua, for a lecture series at Unversidad Centroamericana. Delivered at the height of U.S. involvement in the Nicaraguan civil war, this succinct series of lectures lays out the parameters of Noam Chomsky’s foreign policy analysis. The book […]
Pirates and Emperors, Old and New: International Terrorism in the Real World
Noam Chomsky
Pirates and Emperors is a brilliant exploration of the role of the United States in the Middle East that exposes how the media manipulates public opinion about what constitutes “terrorism.” Chomsky masterfully argues that appreciating the differences between state terror and nongovernmental terror is crucial to stopping terrorism and understanding why atrocities like the bombing of […]
Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power
Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky skewers the fundamental tenets of neoliberalism and casts a clear, cold, patient eye on the economic facts of life. What are the ten principles of concentration of wealth and power at work in America today? They’re simple enough: reduce democracy, shape ideology, redesign the economy, shift the burden onto the poor and middle […]

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