- The Accumulation of Capital
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1913
Rosa Luxemburg's analysis of the inherent contradictions of capitalist accumulation.
- Against Our Better Judgement
How the U.S. was used to create Israel
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2014
An account of how U.S. support enabled the creation of modern Israel, and of how U.S. politicians pushed this policy over the forceful objections of top diplomatic and military experts.
- The Age of Aquiescenence
The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
A groundbreaking investigation of how and why, from the 18th century to the present day, American resistance to our ruling elites has vanished. From the American Revolution through the Civil Rights movement, Americans have long mobilized against political, social, and economic privilege. Hierarchies based on inheritance, wealth, and political preferment were treated as obnoxious and a threat to democracy. Mass movements envisioned a new world supplanting dog-eat-dog capitalism. But over the last half-century that political will and cultural imagination have vanished. Why? Fraser sets out to solve that mystery.
- Age of Extremes
The Short Twentieth Century 1914 - 1991
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
A overview of the history of the years 1914 - 1991.
- America is a Smuggler Nation
Why Legal Trade is a Greater Threat to National Security
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Smuggler Nation is not the oft told, routinely taught story of America’s emergence as a major nation and a global power, rather we come to see U.S. history as “the story of how smuggling – and the attempts to police it – have made and remade America, from the illicit molasses trade in colonial times to drug trafficking today,” as Peter Andreas observes in the book’s introduction.
- American Anti-Slavery Society
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
An abolitionist society (1833-1870) founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan.
- American Biographical Index
Resource Type: Book
- The American Crucible
Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2009
Robin Blackburn, an acclaimed historian of slavery, discusses the emergence of anti-slavery ideas and the important events that paved the way for abolitionist movements.
- American Dreamers
How the Left Changed a Nation
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2011
History of the radical left in the United States from the abolitionists to anti-globalization activists. The author sees the left as historically championing a pluralist spirit that runs counter to the "born capitalist" American society.
- The American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature
Third Edition
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1995
- American Negro Slavery (Third Edition)
A Modern Reader
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1979
Incorporating significant and at times controversial literature on questions about the institution of slavery and the social and cultural response of the slaves to their enslavement, this collection offers thirteen readings, eight of them new to this edition.
- American Power and the New Mandarins
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
Chomsky writes about American power and violence, especially in the context of the Vietnam war, and he focuses especially on the complicity of American intellectuals in supporting and enabling the American imperial project.
- The American Revolution: Was There "A People"?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1976
Book review of 11 books about the American Revolution.
- The American Socialist Movement: 1897-1912
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1952
A history of the American Socialist Party, which at its height had over 150,000 dues-paying members, published hundreds of newspapers, and won almost a million votes for its presidential candidate.
- The American Working Class in Historical Persepctive
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1973
A review of Jeremy Brecher's Strike! (See CX6590)
- The Anti-Empire Report #132
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Each of you I’m sure has met many people who support American foreign policy, with whom you’ve argued and argued. You point out one horror after another, from Vietnam to Iraq. From god-awful bombings and invasions to violations of international law and torture. And nothing helps. Nothing moves this person. Now why is that? Are these people just stupid? I think a better answer is that they have certain preconceptions. Consciously or unconsciously, they have certain basic beliefs about the United States and its foreign policy, and if you don’t deal with these basic beliefs you may as well be talking to a stone wall. The most basic of these basic beliefs, I think, is a deeply-held conviction that no matter what the United States does abroad, no matter how bad it may look, no matter what horror may result, the government of the United States means well.
- The Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes
315 years. 20,528 voyages. Millions of lives.
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Usually, when we say "American slavery" or the "American slave trade," we mean the American colonies or, later, the United States. But North America was a bit player. From the trade's beginning in the 16th century to its conclusion in the 19th, slave merchants brought the vast majority of enslaved Africans to two places: the Caribbean and Brazil. Of the more than 10 million enslaved Africans to eventually reach the Western Hemisphere, just 388,747 -- less than 4 percent of the total -- came to North America.
- Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
Focuses on the Great Lakes Region, in both Canada and the United States.
- Atlas of World History
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
- The Best of LIFE
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
Photos from LIFE magazine, 1936-1972
- Biographical Dictionary of the American Left
Resource Type: Book
- The Black Belt Communists
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
During the Great Depression, black sharecroppers and the Communist Party waged war against tenant farming in the South.
- Black Indians
A Hidden Heritage
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
Explores the story of black Indians, defined here as people with dual African and Native American ancestry or African Americans who lived primarily with Native Americans.
- Black Liberation and the Fight for a Socialist America
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
From slavery to convict labour, from the chain gang to the assembly line, American capitalism has been built upon the lash-scarred backs of black labour. Any organization that claims a revolutionary perspective for the United States must confront the special oppression of black people and their forced segregation at the bottom of capitalist society and the poisonous racism that divides the working class and cripples its struggles.
- Black Loyalist
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
A Black Loyalist was an inhabitant of British America of African descent who joined British colonial forces during the American Revolutionary War.[1] Many had been enslaved by the "Patriot" rebels and decided to join the British in return for promises of freedom.
- Black Reconstruction
An essay toward a history of the part which black folk played in the attempt to reconstruct democracy in America, 1860-1880
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1935
On the role of black Americans during reconstruction.
- Bonus Army
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The Bonus Army was the popular name of an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers—17,000 World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups—who gathered in Washington, D.C., in the spring and summer of 1932 to demand immediate cash-payment redemption of their service certificates.
- Booker's Place
A Mississippi Story
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2012
In 1965, African-American waiter Booker Wright spoke out in a television documentary, outraging many white Southerners and resulting in his murder. Years later, the filmmaker's son returns to examine the repercussions of the interview on Wright's family and the community as a whole.
- Bound By Power
Intended Consequences
Resource Type: Book
These essays focus on how power and ideology work within society. Interviews are with Noam Chomsky, Linda McQuaig, Robert Bertuzzi and others. They speak to the issues of the understanding of power and political dissent, the repression of dissent in post 9/11 media coverage and the war on terror.
- Boxcar Bertha: An Autobiography
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
Memoirs of a woman who lived as a hobo and anarchist.
- Brown, John
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
American abolitionist who advocated and practiced armed insurrection as a means to end slavery. (1800-1859).
- Das Capital, Volume 1
A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1890
Marx's great work sets out to grasp and portray the totality of the capitalist mode of production, and the bourgeois society that emerges from it. He describes and connects all its economic features, together with its legal, political, religious, artistic, philosophical and ideological manifestations.
- The Case for Socialism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2010
An argument for socialism: a society built from the bottom up through the struggles of ordinary people against exploitation, oppression, and injustice -- one in which people come before profit. A society based on the principles of equality, democracy, and freedom.
- Challenging the Mississippi Fire Bombers
Memories of Mississippi 1964-65
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
With a firsthand account of the details and thoughtful descriptions of key people on the front lines, author Jim Dann brings the historic period, the June 1964 civil rights struggle to register as many African American voters as possible in Mississippi, back to life. He places those 15 months in Mississippi in the overall history of the struggle of African Americans for freedom, equality, and democratic rights in the South, the country, and throughout the world.
- Chicago '68
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
A vivid history of the political and social movements of that turbulent time, when the power structure felt itself threatened by social movements that rejected much of what it stood for.
- Chomsky.Info
Resource Type: Website
The Noam Chomsky Web site.
- The CIA's 60-Year History of Fake News: How the Deep State Corrupted Many American Writers
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
In this week's episode of "Scheer Intelligence," Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer interviews Joel Whitney, author and co-founder of Guernica magazine.Whitney's new book, "Finks: How the C.I.A. Tricked the World's Best Writers," explores how the CIA influenced acclaimed writers and publications during the Cold War to produce subtly anti-communist material. During the interview, Scheer and Whitney discuss these manipulations and how the CIA controlled major news agencies and respected literary publications.
- Class War in the Confederacy
Why Free State of Jones Matters
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Free State of Jones may well be the most politically important film about the civil war and its aftermath to appear in a quarter century. Free State of Jones is a proper antidote to identitarian thinking, which has mystified popular understandings of the past, and how we approach political action in the present. In contrast to the prevailing view among so many nowadays that racism has always been and continues to be the main barrier to any progressive left politics, this film reminds us of a more complex history, where anti-slavery politics, Radical Republicanism and mass action created the short-lived progress of Reconstruction.
- Cointelpro
The FBI's Secret War on Political Freedom
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1976
The first in-depth look at the covert and illegal FBI counterintelligence program - code-name COINTELPRO.
- COINTELPRO
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A series of covert, and often illegal, projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at investigating and disrupting dissident political organizations within the United States.
- Colorado Labor Wars
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Colorado's most significant battles between labor and capital which occurred primarily between miners and mine operators.
- Committees Of Correspondence: To Defend Freedom And Secure Good Government
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Two hundred and fifty years ago the people of America were subject to an unrepresentative government controlled by powerful commercial interests. They rebelled and formed their own government, which has now come to be controlled by powerful commercial interests. Once again, "these are the times that try men's souls." What lessons can we learn from history to help us through this crisis?
- Common Sense
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1776
Thomas Paine's justification of revolution.
- The Communistic Societies of the United States
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1965
Describes a dozen Utopian societies.
- Connexions Library: USA Focus
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on the United States of America.
- Counterpunch
Periodical profile
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Progressive U.S. website/newsletter.
- Dakota War of 1862
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
An armed conflict between the United States and several bands of the eastern Sioux or Dakota.
- Darrow, Clarence
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
American lawyer civil libertarian. (1857-1938).
- The day the Klan messed with the wrong people
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
By the mid-1950's the Civil Rights Movement was gaining momentum and the KKK decided they had to fight back. James W. "Catfish" Cole, the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in South Carolina, made a critical mistake that couldn't be avoided by a racist mind - he was completely ignorant of the people he was about to mess with.
- Debs, Eugene V.
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
American socialist politician and union leader, one of the founding members of the International Labor Union and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). (1855-1926).
- Declaration of Independence
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1776
The document in which the 13 American colonies declared their independence from Great Britain.
- Deep in the Swamps, Archaeologists Are Finding How Fugitive Slaves Kept Their Freedom
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
The Great Dismal Swamp was once a thriving refuge for runaways. Archaeologists are learning more about their free communities.
- Defeat of Reconstruction and the Betrayal of Black Freedom Part One
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Reconstruction was a tumultuous, brief and extraordinary period of American history defined by an unprecedented experiment in interracial democracy. It was an era of exceptional developments, all taking place simultaneously and impacting one another.
- Democracy is in the Streets
From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
A thoughtful and evocative history of the American New Left in the 1960's, looking critically but sympathetically at the struggles and passions of that period.
- Denver students stage mass walk-out over US history 'censorship'
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Hundreds of Denver-area high school students walked out their classrooms in a mass protest against what they call an attempt to censor their history curriculum by refocusing it on topics that promote citizenship, patriotism and obedience.
- Destroying the Commons
How the Magna Carta Became a Minor Carta
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Our rights and liberties are under ever-increasing attack.
- Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery
Resource Type: Book
- Dictionary of American Biography
Resource Type: Book
- Dictionary of American Communal and Utopian History
Resource Type: Book
- Dictionary of American History
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1976
- Dictionary of Mexican American History
Resource Type: Book
- Do Indian Lives Matter? Police Violence Against Native Americans
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
With all our talk about police violence aimed at poor and minority communities, we have yet to talk about the group most likely to be killed by law enforcement: Native Americans.
Native American men are incarcerated at four times the rate of white men and Native American women are sent to prison at six times the rate of white women.
- Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
An organization of African-American workers formed in May 1968 in the Chrysler Corporation's Hamtramck Assembly plant, formerly Dodge Main, Detroit, Michigan.
- Dorothea Lange's Censored Photographs of FDR's Japanese Concentration Camps
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
A collection of photographs by Dorothy Lange, commissioned by the US government to record the process of relocating Japanese-americans into internment camps in 1942, along with accompanying quotations providing an oral history of the period and events.
- Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights
Resource Type: Book
- Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History
Resource Type: Book
- Encyclopedia of American Economic History
Resource Type: Book
- Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy
Resource Type: Book
- Encyclopedia of American Political History
Resource Type: Book
- Encyclopedia of American Religions
Resource Type: Book
- Encyclopedia of American Social History
Resource Type: Book
- Encyclopedia of the American Constitution
Resource Type: Book
- The Era of Reconstruction 1865-1877
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1967
- Failure of a Dream?
Essays in the History of American Socialism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
Examines the reasons for the relative weakness of American socialism.
- False Promises
The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- Fascism, American-Style
One-Step from the Third Reich?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Unbeknownst to most Americans the United States is presently under thirty presidential declared states of emergency. They confer vast powers on the Executive Branch including the ability to financially incapacitate any person or organization in the United States, seize control of the nation’s communications infrastructure, mobilize military forces, expand the permissible size of the military without congressional authorization, and extend tours of duty without consent from service personnel.
- The Fight for Canada
Four Centuries of Resistance to American Expansionism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
In an effort to realize their grand dream of one nation from Panama to the Arctic, Americans have attempted to conquer Canada using war, trade sanctions, and political interventions of all kinds. "That fight for Canada continues to this day," says David Orchard.
- The Fight for Freedom for Women
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
The fight for women's rights in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, primarily focusing on Britain and the USA.
- Fire in the Streets
America in the 1960s
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1980
A political and cultural history of each year of the 1960's, focusing on one person to exemplify the year. Activist John Lewis is used to emphasize the Civil Rights movements heating up in 1960; Clark Kerr and the Berkeley "free speech movement" characterize 1964.
- Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Labour leader, activist, and feminist who played a leading role in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). (1890-1964).
- For Reasons of State
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
Essays in which Chomsky analyzes the role of the American state and discusses some of the ways in which individuals can respond to its growing power.
- Forgotten February In The United States Of Aggression
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Since it appears so many folks need reminding that "USA" has always stood for "United States of Aggression," here are a forgotten few from February’s Files.
- 1491
New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
A portrait of human life in the Americas before the arrival of Columbus.
- Francis Daniel Pastorius
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Francis Daniel Pastorius (September 26, 1651-1720) was a German born educator, lawyer, poet, and public official, who is particularly known for his anti-slavery advocacy.
- Free Speech Movement Archives
Resource Type: Website
Documenting the history of the 1960s Free Speech Movement at Berkeley.
- Freedom Riders
1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
- Freedom rides
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Freedom Riders were Civil Rights activists who rode on interstate buses into the segregated southern United States.
- Freedom Schools: The Curriculum
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Oppenheimer analyzes the curriculum taught in the 1964 Freedom Schools, which were designed to help Black students understand oppressive American social structures in and to think about them critically.
- Freedom Summer
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African American voters as possible in Mississippi, which up to that time had almost totally excluded black voters.
- Freedom Summer, 1964: An Overview
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Oppenheimer provides a historical overview of the events leading up to and surrounding the 1964 Freedom Summer, when organizers worked to register Black voters in segregationist Deep South in the United States.
- Friend and Lover
The Life of Louise Bryant
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
- From Yalta To VietNam
American Foreign Policy In The Cold War
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1967
- A Guide to Archives and Manuscripts in the United States
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1961
- Harlem is Nowhere
A Journey to the Mecca of Black America
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2011
Harlem as a race capital has been subject to representational overload. The author's memoir/social history attempts to free the neighbourhood from this burden and reveal its more obscures figures.
- Haywood, Bill (Big Bill Haywood)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
American unionist and communist, one of the founders of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) (1869-1928).
- Hegemony or Survival
America's Quest for Global Dominance
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
Chomsky documents how, for more than half a century, the United States has been pursuing a grand imperial strategy with the aim of dominating the globe.
- Historical Dictionary of Reconstruction
Resource Type: Book
- Historical Dictionary of the New Deal
Resource Type: Book
- Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1975
- A history of American anti-immigrant bias, starting with Benjamin Franklin’s hatred of the Germans
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
In the 1750s, the United States of America was not yet a country, but its trouble with immigrants already had begun. People of non-WASP (white Anglo-Saxon Protestant) descent were crossing the ocean to start new lives in the new world, and earlier Colonial settlers were none too happy about it.
- A history of American lynchings
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
A soil collection project is commemorating the forgotten victims of lynching and helping to tell their stories.
- The History of Democracy
A Marxist Interpretation
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
Roper traces the history of democracy from ancient Athens to the emergence of liberal representative and socialist participatory democracy. He argues that democracy cannot be understood separately from the social and economic contexts in which democratic states operate.
- A History of News
From the Drum to the Satellite
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
- A History of the United States Since 1945
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1965
- History of union busting in the United States
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Union Busting is a term used by labor organizations and trade unions to describe the activities that may be undertaken by employers, their proxies, workers and in certain instances states and governments usually triggered by events such as picketing, card check, organizing, and strike actions.
- The History of Working People in the South
A Draft Study Guide
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- How American History Erases Mass Killings Against Native Americans
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
In the wake of recent American mass killings, the author reminds us of mass murders of indigenous people in American history.
- How they shot those campus bums
Review of The Truth About Kent State
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1973
How Ohio National Guard troops out to "get" campus radicals and teach them "what law and order is all about" shot down students at Kent State University on May 4, 1970, killing four and wounding nine others.
- The I.F. Stone's Weekly Reader
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
An anthology of 20 years of journalism by independent journalists I.F. Stone.
- In 1983 'war scare', Soviet leadership feared nuclear surprise attack by U.S.
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
A nuclear weapons command exercise by NATO in November 1983 prompted fear in the leadership of the Soviet Union that the maneuvers were a cover for a nuclear surprise attack by the United States, triggering a series of unparalleled Soviet military responses, according to a top-secret U.S. intelligence review that has just been declassified.
- In a Time of Torment
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1968
Independent journalist I.F. Stone on the events and issues of the 1960s.
- An Indigenous People's History of the United States
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2014
Historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire.
- International Historical Statistics: The Americas and Australia
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
- An Introduction: Capital's Global Turbulence
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1999
A JOYLESS IRONY of our time is that just as capitalism seemed all-triumphant and the sirens of neoliberalism had declared history to be at an end, the crisis rolling out of Asia has brought the self-regulating global market to its knees. Add to this that at the same time as Marxism as political doctrine has been declared dead, Marxist economics has never been better argued and empirically defended than today.
- The Invasion of Canada
1812-1813
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1980
- Inventing the People
The Rise of Popular Sovereignity in England and America
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
The author makes the case that the United States has remained politically stable because the Founding Fathers invented the idea of the American people and used it to impose a government on the new nation. Morgan ties the notion of popular sovereignty to the older, equally fictional notion, the "divine right of kings."
- The Irish Slaves: What They Will Never, Ever Tell You in History Class or Anywhere Else
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The first slaves imported into the American colonies were 100 White children. They arrived during Easter, 1619, four months before the arrival of a the first shipment of Black slaves. Mainstream histories refer to these labourers as indentured servants, not slaves.
- The Iroquois in the War of 1812
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
- Jim Crow laws
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965.
- Journey of Reconciliation
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
An attempt in 1947 to challenge segregation laws on interstate buses in the Southern United States, through non-violent direct action.
- Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume I: State and Bureaucracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.
- The Labor Wars
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
A survey of landmark events in the U.S. labour movement.
- Leadville Colorado, Miners' Strike
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Occurred as a result of rapid industrialization and consolidation of the mining industry.
- Leninism vs. Debs's Socialist Party
The Communist Fight Against Black Oppression
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Articles by Eugene Debs, written as polemics against racists within the Socialist Party, are eloquent in defending black people against racism, in calling for working-class unity across racial lines and in emphasizing that the Socialist Party should open its ranks to black people. In "The Negro in the Class Struggle," Debs stressed, "The history of the Negro in the United States is a history of crime without a parallel." Debs stands out favorably against most of his contemporaries in the labor movement -- including within the SP. Debs's writing remains a powerful denunciation of white workers' racism. Debs recognized that black oppression, rather than making white workers privileged, degrades them, thus providing a refutation of the later concept of "white skin privilege."
- Liberal Dreams and Nature's Limits
Great Cities of North America Since 1600
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
An exploration of city life through time, focusing on the life [economically, socially, politically, etc.] of five large North American cities at various times in the past - Philadelphia during the time of Benjamin Franklin (1760), New York in the mid nineteenth-century (1860), Chicago at the beginning of the Progressivist Civic Movements (1910), Los Angeles during the immediate Post-war boom (1950) and Toronto at the beginning of its own ascendancy in the 1970's. (1975).
- Liberty's Exiles
American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2011
A global history of the Loyalist diaspora.
- Lincoln: A Review
Civil War, Not Compromise, Smashed Slavery
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Lincoln—Steven Spielberg’s new movie reduces the abolition of slavery to so many parliamentary maneuvers.
- Lincoln, Abraham
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
President of the United States during the American Civil War. (1809-1865).
- Lincoln Reconsidered
Essays on the Civil War Era: Third Edition, Revised and Updated
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2001
- Lincoln's Contested Legacy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Great Emancipator or unreconstructed racist? Defender of civil liberties or subverter of the Constitution? Each generation evokes a different Lincoln. But who was he?
- Little Rock Central High School
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The site of forced school desegregation during the American Civil Rights Movement.
- A Long and Terrible Shadow
White Values, Native Rights in the Americas 1492-1992
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
Against the odds, Native peoples have waged a tenacious struggle to survive and the re-emerge as distinct cultures.
- Made in America
An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
A history of American English.
- Malcolm X
The Man and His Ideas
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1965
- Malcolm X Speaks
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1965
A series of speeches, seminars and press conferences given by Malcolm X during the last years of his life in 1964 and early 1965.
- The Man Who Recorded the World
A Biography of Alan Lomax
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2011
Documentarian of the folk culture of American life,, Lomax was diligent and tireless in preserving the irreplaceable vernacular cultures that have fallen into the past.
- March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Large political rally that took place in Washington, D.C. on August 28, 1963 at which Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his historic "I Have a Dream" speech advocating racial harmony at the Lincoln Memorial.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 19
Marx and Engels 1861 - 1864
Resource Type: Book
Colonialism, slavery, and the American Civil War.
- A Marxist History of the World part 46: The American Revolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
In 1764, Americans thought of themselves as British subjects of King George III. By 1788, they would, by their own decisions and actions, have made themselves the free citizens of a new republic forged in revolution and war.
- A Marxist History of the World part 57: The American Civil War
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
One hundred and fifty years ago North America saw the start of a revolutionary war fought between rival systems and opposing political ideologies. Neil Faulkner looks at The American Civil War.
- A Marxist History of the World part 81: The Roaring Twenties
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Although the 'American Dream' became a reality for millions in the 1920s, it was built on shaky grounds - the huge speculative bubble that was building up on Wall Street was waiting to collapse
- Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the New Left
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1980
An analysis of the media's prediliction for "politics of confrontation" in America in the late 60's. He focuses on how the media distorted the anti-war movement.
- Minewar.org
Resource Type: Website
Documenting the 1930's Illinois mine war.
- Mining History Written in Blood
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
Domestic coal mining history above and below ground lives on the pages of Written in Blood: Courage and Corruption in the Appalachian War of Extraction edited by Wess Harris (PM Press, 2017). The anthology unpacks the industry, people and communities of a coal-rich region, amplifying relevant class and gender issues over a century.
- "Mr. Boston": Meet the Man Who Secretly Helped Daniel Ellsberg Leak Pentagon Papers to the Press
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
Interview with historian Gar Alperovitz. Alperovitz has revealed for the first time the key role he and a handful of other activists played in helping whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg leak to journalists the Pentagon Papers -- a 7,000-page classified history outlining the true extent of the U.S. invasion of Vietnam.
- Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A large demonstration against the United States involvement in the Vietnam War that took place across the United States on October 15, 1969.
- More from the Greatest [sic] Generation
This is What We Are Up Against
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The Nazi-CIA connection is ancient news but is finally getting play some seven decades later when it’s safe to file it under "Mistakes, well-intentioned." Here’s my “scoop”: The Nazi-CIA connection should be filed under "Policy, standard operating."
- Murdered by Capitalism
A Memoir of 150 Years of Life & Death on the American Left
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
Much of this book is in the form of a fictional dialogue between two radicals discussing the political events of both of their lifetimes.
- The National Question
Selected Writings by Rosa Luxemburg
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1976
In her penetrating analysis of nationalism, Rosa Luxemburg argues that the formula of "the right of nations to self-determination" is essentially not a political or programmatic guide to the nationality question, but only a means of avoiding that question.
- Negroes in the Civil War
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1943
The struggle of the Negro masses derives its peculiar intensity from the simple fact that what they are struggling for is not abstract but is always perfectly visible around them. In their instinctive revolutionary efforts for freedom, the escaping slaves had helped powerfully to begin and now those who remained behind had helped powerfully to conclude, the self-destructive course of the slave power.
- The New Radicalism in America 1889-1963
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1967
- The New Refugees
American Voices in Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
Stories of 18 "new refugees" who came in Canada to escape the U.S. war against Vietnam.
- New World Order
A postwar analysis
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1991
Everyone is allowed to play the game, so long as it's according to the U.S. rules.
- The Nonviolent History of American Independence
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Often minimized in our history books, the tactics of nonviolent action played a powerful role in achieving American Independence from British rule. Benjamin Naimark-Rowse wrote, "the lesson we learn of a democracy forged in the crucible of revolutionary war tends to ignore how a decade of nonviolent resistance before the shot-heard-round-the-world shaped the founding of the United States, strengthened our sense of political identity, and laid the foundation of our democracy.'
- Notebook of an Agitator
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
Over 100 articles from the pen of an active participant in the events of thirty years of labor history. Cannon covers the campaigns to save Sacco and Vanzetti, the historic strikes of the 1930s, the Korean War, mcCarthyism, and prize fighting, movies, and the Catholic Church.
- Of National Lies and Racial America
Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama and the Unacceptability of Truth
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
To some, the horror of 9/11 was not new. To some it was not on that day that "everything changed." To some, everything changed four hundred years ago, when that first ship landed at what would become Jamestown. To some, everything changed when their ancestors were forced into the hulls of slave ships at Goree Island and brought to a strange land as chattel. To some, everything changed when they were run out of Northern Mexico, only to watch it become the Southwest United States, thanks to a war of annihilation initiated by the U.S. government. To some, being on the receiving end of terrorism has been a way of life.
- The Okinawa missiles of October
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
John Bordne, a resident of Blakeslee, Pennsylvania, had to keep a personal history to himself for more than five decades. Only recently has the US Air Force given him permission to tell the tale, which, if borne out as true, would constitute a terrifying addition to the lengthy and already frightening list of mistakes and malfunctions that have nearly plunged the world into nuclear war.
- On Roediger's Wages of Whiteness
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2002
An extended discussion and critique of David Roediger's book Wages of Whiteness. Allen writes: "David Roediger's Wages of Whiteness, because of its almost universal acceptance for use in colleges and universities, has served as the single most effective instrument in the socially necessary consciousness-raising function of objectifying 'whiteness,' and in popularizing the 'race-as-a-social-construct' thesis. As one who has been the beneficiary of kind supportive comments from him for my own efforts in this field of historical investigation, I undertake this critical essay with no other purpose than furthering the our common aim of the disestablishment of white identity, and the overthrow of white supremacism in general."
- On Translating Securityspeak into English
In the Land of False Cognates
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The Security State has its own language: Securityspeak. Like Newspeak, the ideologically refashioned successor to English in Orwell’s “1984,” Securityspeak is designed to obscure meaning and conceal truth, rather than convey them.
- 150 Years Since the Emancipation Proclamation
Finish the Civil War!
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The Emancipation Proclamation was a pledge, a promise. It only freed slaves in areas that were not yet controlled by Union armies, true enough. But in that sense it was like the Declaration of Independence in 1776, which didn’t make any of the colonies free—it took a victorious war to free the colonies from British rule. The Emancipation Proclamation bound the defense of the Union to the destruction of slavery.
- The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
- The Origins of Left Culture in the U.S.: 1880-1940
Issue 6-7 of Cultural Correspondence and Issue #6 of Green Mountain Irregulars
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
A selection of materials from the early years of radical popular culture in the United States, showing how different peoples, over several generations, sought to create out of their own resources a better, more co-operative society.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 2, 2014
Climate Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2014
This issue of Other Voices looks at why so many people deny or ignore the very real and very near threat of climate change. We also look into the ways on how NGOs tame and undermine grassroots movements. Other Voices also shares an article detailing how a $182 billion bail-out of tax-payer money was not enough for one bank. Finally, in this issue, we look into the horrors of American slavery and how it shaped the United States into the economic power it is today.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 16, 2014
Arms Trade
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2014
Topic of the week is the Arms Trade. Featured resources include The No-Nonsense Guide to the Arms Trade, an article on Israel's War Business, and the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade. A new feature in Other Voices is the Film of the Week: to start off, we spotlight The Corporation, an exploration of the dominant institution of our time. Plus: Lying to ourselves about the air war, Karl Marx's critique of modern agriculture, and a challenge to Montreal's anti-protest bylaw.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 26, 2015
Ukraine
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
Ukraine is spotlighted in this issue of Other Voices, with several articles on the events of the past year, from the overthrow of the government, to the rise of the far right, the armed conflict in the east, and aggressive US/NATO moves setting the stage for a possible nuclear war between the US and Russia. Also in this issue, #DomesticExtremists ridicule police state legislation in the UK, world inequality in one simple graphic, and people's history items about mass strikes in the First World War, and the new People's Archive of Rural India.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 28, 2017
Resisting Injustice
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2017
In this issue, we look at the relentless persistence of people challenging injustice and entrenched power in places around the world, including Palestine, Korea, China, Canada, and the United States. We spotlight the hunger strike by Palestinian political prisoners languishing in Israeli prisons, workers’ strikes in China, and people in South Korea taking on a corrupt government. In the United States, the Equal Justice Initiative is collecting soil from places where blacks were lynched as a way of remembering their lives and the brutally racist society that murdered them. An article on recent terrorist attacks in Britain asks what underlies ideological violence and sociopathic rage. Ralph Nader asks why people who are supposed to be professional questioners avoid asking hard questions of those in power.
- Overthrowing other people's governments: The Master List
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War.
- Paine, Thomas
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Author, pamphleteer, radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary. (1737-1809).
- Panama invasion protest
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1990
- Paradox of Plenty
A Social History of Eating in Modern America
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
- Passionate Declarations
Essays on War and Justice
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
Essays looking at American political ideology.
- The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 1: From the Beginning to the Eve of the French Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
- A People's History of the United States
1492 - Present
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
Zinn's history includes those most ignored by typical American textbook history, including Indians, blacks, women and workers.
- A People's History of the United States
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
Howard Zinn attempts to present the history of the United States through the perspectives of common people rather than political and economic elites.
- Polemics and Prophecies 1967-1970
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
An anthology of I.F. Stone's articles from 1967 - 1970.
- The Political Economy of Slavery
Studies in the Economy and Society of the Slave South
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1965
- Politics Past
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
A collection of essays by Dwight Macdonald.
- Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South: An Interview with Historian Keri
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Historian Keri Leigh Merritt presents a comprehensive study of this malignant and overlooked aspect of slavery in her new book Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South (Cambridge University Press). This is an interview with her.
- The Port Huron Statement
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1962
A seminal statement of the New Left, adopted by SDS in 1962.
- Powers and Prospects
Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
- Profit over People
Neoliberalism and Global Order
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Chomsky confronts neoliberalsim: the pro-corporate system of economic and political policies presently waging a form of class war worldwide.
- Pullman Strike
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A nationwide conflict between labour unions and railroads that occurred in the United States in 1894.
- The Purge
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1988
Between 1947 and 1960 it was even harder than usual for left-wingers in the United States to get by. If you were active on the left, or were thought to be, there were more ways then than now that you could be arrested or threatened with arrest, or have civil rights such as the right to travel abroad withdrawn.
- Racist Terror, Then and Now
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
African-Americans have been murdered by white mobs, vigilantes, and "law enforcement" from the time of slavery to, quite possibly, this morning. The fundamental reason for the killing of African-Americans by whites has been fear by many whites of all classes that the existing rules of racial hierarchy, that is, white supremacy, are endangered.
- Radical America - Volume 7, Number 4-5
Volume 7, Numbers 4 & 5 - Women's Labor
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1973
- The Radical Camera
New York's Photo League, 1936-1951
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2011
Artists in 'the Photo League', active from 1936 to 1951, were known for capturing sharply revealing, compelling moments from everyday life.
- Radicalism in America
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
American rebels and the causes for which they fought from 1620 to the 1960s.
- Randolph, A. Philip
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
African-American civil rights leader. (1889-1979).
- The Real Terror Network
Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1982
Herman sets out to show that the U.S. ignores or sponsors terror by authoritarian states that are allied with U.S. interests.
- Recovering Nonviolent History
Civil Resistance in Liberation Struggles
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
Essays showing, in considerable detail, the varied roles played by civil resistance in fifteen liberation struggles in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas.
- Reinterpreting the Cotton Kingdom
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Book review of Walter Johnson's "River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom."
- Rescuing Memory: the Humanist Interview with Noam Chomsky
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
- Rethinking Camelot
JFK, the Vietnam War, and US Political Culture
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
Chomsky analyzes the Kennedy Administration's policy on the Vietnam War and compares the US Administrations of Presidents Kennedy and Reagan.
- Review Essay: Reaching for Revolution
Radicals in America: The U.S. Left Since the Second World War
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Book review of Howard Brick's and Christopher Phelpss Radicals in America: The U.S. Left Since the Second World War.
- The Right of Self-Determination and the Negro in the United States of North Americas
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1939
- Rising in the West
The True Story of an 'Okie' Family From the Great Depression Through the Reagan Years
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
- Rivers of Empire
Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
A history of the agribusinessmen and engineers who financed and built the system of damns, reservoirs, and canals which transformed the American West from a sparsely inhabited dry region to the site of massive farms and sprawling cities. Worster argues that control of scarce water resources gave rise to a capitalist/bureaucratic elite and to a modern day empire. This elite established and perpetuated itself on the backs of impoverished wage labourers. He criticizes the waste of water for swimming pools, casino fountains, and ill-suited crops like alfalfa, the depletion of aquifers, and the salinization of rivers. Worster points out the vengeance of nature in the form of the sedimentation and collapse of dozens of dams.
- The Robber Barons
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1962
- Rogue State
A Guide to the World's Only Superpower
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
A mini-encyclopedia of the numerous un-humanitarian acts perpetrated by the United States since the end of the Second World War.
- Rolling Back Reconstruction
Against The Current vol. 159
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The 'Reconstruction Amendments” — the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the United States Constitution — are targeted in many of the Tea Party and far-right Republican campaigns against the rights of immigrants and women, marriage equality and LGBT rights, and voting rights for African Americans and other minority ethnic groups.
- The Romance of American Communism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
Using USA Communist Party members' personal experiences, Gornick examines the attraction of the party and its philosophy.
- SDS
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
The rise and development of the Students for a Democratic Society, the organization that became the major expression of the American left in the 1960s -- its passage from student protest to institutional resistance to revolutionary activism, and its ultimate impact on American politics and life.
- Seeds of Fire
A People's Chronology
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Recalling events that happened on this day in history. Memories of struggle, resistance and persistence.
- Segregation Had to Be Invented
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
During the late 19th century, blacks and whites in the South lived closer together than they do today.
- The Seminole-African Alliance
World News Trust
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The Native American Indian people that comprised the Seminole Nation grew out of the Creek Nation in Florida. Multilingual and diverse, the Seminoles (from a word meaning “runaway”) became infamous for intermingling with runaway slaves from Georgia and the Carolinas… slaves that built prosperous, free, self-governing communities since 1738.
- Sex and Marriage in Utopian Communities in Nineteenth Century America
Nineteenth-Century America
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
A look at original approaches to sex and marraige in the utopian communities of nineteenth-century America. Many of these communities abolished monogamy and individualism and sought ways of dealing with the sexual life of the group as a whole.
- Sexual revolution in 1960s America
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Attitudes to a variety of issues changed, sometimes radically, throughout the decade. The urge to 'find oneself' the activsm of the 1960's and the quest for autonomy were characterised by the changes towards sexual attitudes at the time.
- Shaping 20th Century America
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Stating that "The world must be made safe for democracy,” president Woodrow Wilson asked Congress for a declaration of war against Germany on April 2, 1917. The United States formally entered World War I four days later.
- Shays' Rebellion
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
An armed uprising in central and western Massachusetts from 1786 to 1787.
- The Shocking Savagery of America's Early History
Bernard Bailyn, one of our greatest historians, shines his light on the nation's Dark Ages
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
A discussion with reknowned historian Bernard Bailyn whose recent book "The Barbarous Years" examines a particularly violent period of America's early history which has since been almost erased.
- Sisterhood, Interrupted
From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
A study of controversies in the feminist movement from the 1960s to the 2000s. Siegel wants readers to know about the multifaceted and contentious history of what is called feminism's "second wave" so that they can avoid both the trap of rebelling against its supposed stodgy "political correctness" and that of idealizing its supposedly harmonious "sisterhood".
- '68: The Year of the Barricades
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
Caute's book looks at the explosive year 1968 (while situating it in the context of what had led up to it). One of the great strengths of this excellent book is that it looks at what was happening around the world.
- The Slave Narratives
American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography
Resource Type: Website
Interviews with former slaves. Nearly all of the information presented here came from the WPA collection at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, in addition to the 232 boxes of unprocessed material and county histories.
- The Slave Trade
The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440 - 1870
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
A comprehensive history of the Atlantic slave trade in which approximiately eleven million black slaves were carried from Africa to the Americas to work on plantations, in mines, or as servants in houses.
- Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism - Book Review
Edward E. Baptist’s "The Half Has Never Been Told"
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
A review of Edward E. Baptist’s examination of slavery, presented in an entirely new way, extensively through the voices of the slaves themselves.
- SNCC
The New Abolitionists
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1965
An account of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
- SNCC's 50-Year Legacy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Celebrating SNCC's legacy.
- Sojourner Truth
A Life, a Symbol
Resource Type: Book
A biography of Sojourner Truth, a famous northern slave, born in the 1790's. A devout Christian, she came to symbolize the shame of slavery and the promise of women's emancipation.
- Soledad Brother
Resource Type: Book
- Some Presidents
From Wilson to Nixon
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
- Spontaneity and Organization: Some Comments
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1973
A contribution to a symposium on Jeremy Brecher's book Strike!
- Steady Hands for Freedom
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Book Review of "Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC" by Faith S. Holsaert, et. al
- Stolen Continents
The "New World" Through Indian Eyes
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
A history of the Americas through Native eyes.
- The Story of English
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
- Strange Cults and Utopias of 19th Century America
Original title: History of American Socialisms
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1966
Histories of communal experiments and communities in the United States.
- Strike!
The True History of Mass Insurgence from 1877 to the Present
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
A history-from-below that brings to light strikes as authentic revolutionary movements against the establishments of state, capital, and trade unionism.
- The Student Movement of the Thirties
A Political History
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1965
Most of the references one hears to the student movement of the thirties, and most published references too, are quite wrong in one basic respect: they speak as if 'the thirties' represented a single, homogeneous period for the student movement. But the biggest single fact about the history of this movement is that it went through a sweeping change in spirit, methods, and politics, which changed its face completely in mid-course.
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
One of the principal organizations of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
- Swords in the Hands of Children: Reflections of an American Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2017
Against the vividly evoked chaos and conflicts of the Vietnam Era, Jonathan Lerner probes the impulses that led a small group of educated, privileged young Americans to turn to violence as a means of political change.
- The Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
Resource Type: Website
The Tamiment Library contains some of the most important collections in the United States relating to labor and social history [labor collections], the history of the Left, the place of the worker in American society, the evolution of labor law, women's history, immigrant history, and much more.
- Targeting Iran
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
A critical analysis of the Bush administration's policies towards Iran.
- Textile workers strike (1934)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A strike involving 400,000 textile workers from New England, the Mid-Atlantic states and the U.S. Southern states.
- Towards a New Past
Dissenting Essays in American History
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
A critical look at established views of American history.
- Towards a New Cold War
Essays on the Current Crisis and How We Got There
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1982
A sobering assessment of American foreign policy from the end of the Vietnam era to Ronald Reagan.
- The Tragedy of American Diplomacy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1962
- The Truman Administration
A Documentary History
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1968
- The Truth About Kent State
A Challenge to the American Conscience
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
An account of the murder of four students at Kent State University by National Guard troops.
- Uncovering the Sixties
Life and Times of the Undergound Press
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1985
A book about the Sixties and how they were recorded by radical participants. It traces how movements and communities convinced that their news did not fit into the agenda of mainstream media covered themselves in print.
- Underhanded History of the USA
Radical America - Volumer 7 No.3
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- An Unfinished Revolution
Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2011
A study of Marx's analysis of the American Civil War as a conflict about slavery, not tarrfifs. Marx saw the north as a bourgeois republic, and the south as expansionist.
- Untold History of the United States
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2012
A 2012 documentary series directed, produced, and narrated by Oliver Stone. The ten-part series is supplemented by a 750-page companion book, The Untold History of the United States, also written by Stone and Kuznick, released on Oct 30, 2012.
- U.S. Elites
The Original Gangsters
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Donald Trump is at home in the underworld. Tom Robbins writes that the de facto GOP nominee "has encountered a steady stream of mob-tainted offers that he apparently couldn't refuse" in his decades in business. He "worked with mob-controlled companies and unions" while building his empire, the Washington Post reports. So the man has presidential cred. U.S. elites, since the colonial era, have shown contempt for the law: if they weren't ignoring their own codes, they were violating those of other nations or international statutes, or partnering with avowed outlaws. It's not clear, in other words, what distinguishes politicians and businessmen from career criminals.
- The Virigina Declaration of Rights
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1776
Drafted in 1776 to proclaim the inherent natural rights of men, including the right to rebel against "inadequate" government. The Declaration was adopted unanimously by the Virginia Convention of Delegates on June 12, 1776.
- Voices of the American Revolution
Celebrating 200 years of Independence 1776 - 1976
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
- The Wages of Whiteness is Early Death
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The white working class has never had it easy in American history. It's been viciously exploited, disrespected, deceived, divided, repressed, and otherwise and generally abused from the United States' colonial origins through the present day.
- War Crimes in Vietnam
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1967
- The War of Northern Aggression
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
A leading Civil War historian challenges the new orthodoxy about how slavery ended in America.
- The "War Scare" in the Kremlin, Revisited: Is History Repeating Itself?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The Washington Post on October 25, 2015 published an important story based on a recently-published U.S. intelligence review from 1990 that confirmed Soviet leaders in 1983 believed the Reagan administration was using a mobilization exercise to prepare a nuclear surprise attack.
- The Warmth of Other Suns
The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2010
Wilkerson chronicles the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of the United States.
- The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism
The Political Economy of Human Rights: Volume 1
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1979
Chomsky and Herman demonstrate, with devasting logic and overwhelming documentation, that the purpose of U.S. global policy is to make the world safe for exploitation by U.S. corporate interests and that this has required and continues to require the installation and support of brutal military/police dictatorships throught the Third World. It also requires an apologetic ideology which portrays all this as being in the highest interests of democracy and human rights.
- We Own the World
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
The whole debate about the Iranian 'interference' in Iraq makes sense only on one assumption, namely, that we own the world. If we own the world, then the only question that can arise is that someone else is interfering in a country we have invaded and occupied.
- Weather Underground Organization
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
An American radical left organization.
- Weatherman
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
A history of the Weatherman organization.
- Western Federation of Miners
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Radical labor union that gained a reputation for militancy in the mines of the western United States and British Columbia.
- What Happened to the Streetcars?
Killed by General Motors
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
The history of how car companies bought up and destroyed public transit systems in the first half the the twentieth century to eliminate alternatives to the automobile.
- What Uncle Sam Really Wants
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
Chomsky discusses examples of U.S. intervention and links together events stretching over four decades in regions throughout the world. He provides a quick synopsis of American foreign policy and paints a vivid picture of the realities faced by social movements.
- Why There Is No Socialism in the United States
Resource Type: Book
- Workers of America, Unite! Racism is a Trade Union Issue
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The American working class is the most powerful in the world, is the most productive in the world and we operate the largest and most profitable economy in the world. American workers are also represented by national unions that have the most resources, the biggest staffs and the largest bank accounts, greater than any other trade unions in the world. Yet, without question, American labour is politically the weakest in the world among the large economies, largely because we remain so violently divided.
- Working Class Communism
A Review of the Literature
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
- Working Toward Whiteness
How America's Immigrants Became White
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
- World Orders Old and New
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
Chomsky surveys the international scene since 1945.
- The World Without Us
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
A thought experiment to see what would happen to the planet if human beings simply disappeared.
- Year 501
The Conquest Continues
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
An examination of the U.S. role in the world placed in the long historical perspective of the 500 years that followed the voyages of Columbus.
- You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
A personal history of our times
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2002
Zinn tells his personal stories about more than thirty years of fighting for social change, from teaching at Spelman College to recent protests against war.
- Zinn, Howard
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
American historian, political scientist, social critic, activist and playwright. (1922-2010).
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