The nineteenth-century countercultures that came to define the bohemian lifestyle spanned both sides of the Atlantic, ranging from Walt Whitman to Josephine Baker, and from Gertrude Stein to Thelonius Monk. Bohemians is the graphic history of this movemen...
A crown jewel of New Left historiography, this overview of U.S. Marxism was hailed on its first publication for its nuanced storytelling, balance and incredible sweep.
When he was summoned before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1951, Abraham Lincoln Polonsky (1911-1999) was labeled "a very dangerous citizen" by Harold Velde, a congressman from Illinois. Lawyer, educator, novelist, labor organizer,...
The massive size of the original six-volume History of Woman Suffrage has likely limited its impact on the lives of the women who benefitted from the efforts of the pioneering suffragists. By collecting miscellanies like state suffrage reports and speeche...
In The Beats: A Graphic History , those who were mad to live have come back to life through artwork as vibrant as the Beat movement itself. Told by the comic legend Harvey Pekar, his frequent artistic collaborator Ed Piskor, and a range of artists and...
Tim Hector (1942-2002) played many roles--political philosopher, educator, literary and music critic, cricket administrator, political leader, and newspaper editor. Best known for his editorship of the newspaper Outlet and his cofounding of the Afro-Carib...
The stories of the hard-rock minersâ shooting wars, young Elizabeth Gurly Flynn (the âRebel Girlâ of contemporary sheet music), the first sit-down strikes and Free Speech fights, Emma Goldman and the...
C.L.R. James is one of the twentieth centuryâs most remarkable individuals. As the author of the influential book The Black Jacobins , he is widely recognized as the premier scholar of slave revolt; the publication of his acute and sensi...