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A People's History of the United States
1492 - Present
by Howard Zinn
Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the United States is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of — and in the words of — America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, working poor and immigrant laborers.
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Davita's Harp
by Chaim Potok
For Davita Chandal, growing up in the New York of the 1930s and '40s is an experience of joy and sadness. Her loving parents, both fervent radicals, fill her with the fiercely bright hope of a new and better world. But as the deprivations of war and depression take a ruthless toll, Davita unexpectedly turns to the Jewish faith that her mother had long ago abandoned, finding there both a solace for her questioning... (more)
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A Different Mirror
A History of Multicultural America
by Ronald T. Takaki
From its colonization to the Los Angeles riots, this book recounts the history of America from a multicultural point of view, while detailing the involvements and achievements of the non-Anglo participants who helped create it. Reprint.
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Drag King Dreams
by Leslie Feinberg
Long before films like Boys Don't Cry alerted the world to the challenges--and extreme violence--transgendered people experience, Leslie Feinberg's blockbuster classic, Stone Butch Blues, offered a harrowing window onto transgendered life. Her brutally candid autobiographical novel about a blue-collar butch lesbian coming of age in pre-Stonewall Buffalo, New York electrified readers everywhere, particularly ... (more)
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A History of the Jews in America
by Howard Morley Sachar
Spanning 350 years of Jewish experience in this country, A History of the Jews in America is an essential chronicle by the author of The Course of Modern Jewish History. With impressive scholarship and a riveting sense of detail, Howard M. Sachar tells the stories of Spanish marranos and Russian refugees, of aristocrats and threadbare social revolutionaries, of philanthropists and Hollywood moguls. At the same... (more)
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The Working Poor
Invisible in America
by David K. Shipler
“Nobody who works hard should be poor in America,” writes Pulitzer Prize winner David Shipler. Clear-headed, rigorous, and compassionate, he journeys deeply into the lives of individual store clerks and factory workers, farm laborers and sweat-shop seamstresses, illegal immigrants in menial jobs and Americans saddled with immense student loans and paltry wages. They are known as the working poor. They perform... (more)
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Lucasville: The Untold Story of a Prison Uprising
by Staughton Lynd
In 1993 prisoners took control of the maximum-security prison in Lucasville, Ohio. Their 11-day ordeal started with a dispute between the warden and Muslim prisoners and ended with a negotiated settlement, but only after nine prisoners and one hostage had been killed. In the months that followed, leaders of the uprising were singled out by the state, tried, and sentenced to death despite compelling evidence of... (more)
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Strangers from a Different Shore
A History of Asian Americans
by Ronald T. Takaki
In an extraordinary blend of eloquent narrative history, vivid personal recollection, and oral testimony, Ronald Takaki relates the diverse 150-year history of Asian Americans. Through richly detailed vignettes--by turns bitter, funny, and inspiring--he offers a stunning panorama of a neglected part of Americanhistory. 16 pages of photographs.
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The Souls of Black Folk
by W. E. B. Du Bois
The Souls of Black Folk , by W. E. B. Du Bois, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics : New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and... (more)
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The Shaker Experience in America: A History of the United Society of Believers
by Stephen J. Stein
This engrossing book is the first general history of the Shakers from their origins in eighteenth-century England to the present day. Drawing on written and oral testimony by Shakers over the past two centuries, Stephen J. Stein offers a full and often revisionist account of the movement: the powerful charismatic leaders, the years of maturation and growth before the Civil War, the subsequent decline in fortune,... (more)
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Transparent
Love, Family, and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers
by Cris Beam
When Cris Beam first moved to Los Angeles, she thought she might put in just a few hours volunteering at a school for transgender kids while she got settled. Instead she found herself drawn deeply into the pained and powerful group of transgirls she discovered. In Transparent she introduces four of them—Christina, Domineque, Foxxjazell, and Ariel—and shows us their world, a dizzying mix of familiar teenage... (more)
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Omnigender: A Trans-Religious Approach
by Virginia R. Mollenkott
This book bridges traditional religious doctrine and secular postmodern theory regarding gender. Through an examination of the Hebrew and Christian scriptures and church history as well as the exploration of other religious traditions and cultures, Mollenkott honors the experience of people who do not fit within the traditional binary concept of gender: intersexual, trans-sexual, or otherwise-gendered ... (more)
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Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in US Women's History
Since the publication of its first edition in 1990, Unequal Sisters has been considered one of the most influential and groundbreaking works in the field of women's studies. Bringing together a broad, multicultural view, it presents the best scholarship available on the issues of race, ethnicity, region, sexuality and class in its attempt to provide a more accurate and more inclusive history of women in the... (more)
CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY.Alan. Paton
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CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY.
by Alan. Paton
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Strangers in the Land
Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925
by John Higham
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Mutiny on the Amistad
by Howard Jones
Reissued to coincide with the upcoming major motion picture Amistad, Mutiny on the Amistad presents the first full-scale treatment of the only instance in history where African blacks, seized by slave dealers, won their freedom and returned home. Howard Jones describes how, in 1839, fifty-three of the captives led by Joseph Cinque revolted on the Spanish slave ship, the Amistad, in the Caribbean. Allowing only... (more)
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Sacco and Vanzetti
The Anarchist Background
by Paul Avrich
The Sacco-Vanzetti affair is the most famous and controversial case in American legal history. It divided the nation in the 1920s, and it has continued to arouse deep emotions, giving rise to an enormous literature. Few writers, however, have consulted anarchist sources for the wealth of information available there about the movement of which the defendants were a part. Now Paul Avrich, the preeminent American... (more)
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The Letters of Sacco and Vanzetti (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Nicola Sacco
On August 23, 1927, in Boston, Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed for murder and robbery. This collection of their letters was originally published in 1928 and is now being re-released to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the execution that transfixed America. The case continues historically to be one of controversy and debate.
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Hybrid: Bisexuals, Multiracials, and Other Misfits under American Law (Critical America Series)
by Ruth Colker
The United States, and the West in general, has always organized society along bipolar lines. We are either gay or straight, male or female, white or not, disabled or not. In recent years, however, America seems increasingly aware of those who defy such easy categorization. Yet, rather than being welcomed for the challenges that they offer, people living the gap are often ostracized by all the communities to... (more)
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Fields of Peace: A Pennsylvania German Album
Fields of Peace unites two remarkable talents in masterful volume. The text, written by the late Millen Brand, illuminates the history of the Pennsylvania German sects who were united in their rejection of infant baptism. He provides a sympathetic portrait of these fascinating people (often erroneously called "Pennsylvania Dutch") who emigrated from Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries, found a home in the... (more)

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