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Receive The New Jim Crow for Classroom Story

Teachers can receive the 10th anniversary edition of Michelle Alexander's award-winning study of mass incarceration and white supremacy in the United States.

Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism

Book — Non-fiction. By James Loewen. 2018. 592 pages.
Documents the history of towns across the United States that exclude African Americans (and other racial/ethnic groups) after sundown.

Bill Moyers Journal: The Conversation Continues

Book — Non-fiction. By Bill Moyers and edited by Michael Winship. 2011. 608 pages.
Fifty interviews with political figures, writers, activists, poets, and scholars.

Howard Zinn: Interview by Bill Moyers

Article. Interview of Howard Zinn by Bill Moyers. 2009.
Book excerpt of Howard Zinn on The People Speak and a range of topics in U.S. history and contemporary issues.

May It Please the Court: Live Recordings and Transcripts of Landmark Oral Arguments Made Before the Supreme Court Since 1955

Book — Non-fiction and CD. Edited by Peter Irons and Stephanie Guitton. 2007. 400 pages.
Book and CD provide a candid view of Supreme Court deliberations; includes MP3 recordings.

She Would Not Be Moved: How We Tell the Story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Book — Non-fiction. By Herbert Kohl. Intro by Marian Wright Edelman. 2007. 126 pages.
The myths and facts about Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Studs Terkel’s “Working”: A Teaching Guide

Teaching Guide. By Rick Ayers. 2001. 208 pages.
Discussion questions and teaching ideas for Terkel's classic 1974 text.

Freedom’s Unfinished Revolution: An Inquiry Into the Civil War and Reconstruction

Teaching Guide. By American Social History Project with foreword by Eric Foner. 1996.
Primary documents, essays, and questions to teach the untold story of Reconstruction.

The Field Guide to the Global Economy

Book — Non-fiction. By Sarah Anderson, John Cavanagh, and Thea Lee. 2005. 160 pages.
The economics of globalization in easy to read charts.

The First American Revolution: Before Lexington and Concord

Book — Non-fiction. By Ray Raphael. 2003. 288 pages.
The events leading up to the American Revolution.

Founding Myths: Stories That Hide Our Patriotic Past

Book — Non-fiction. By Ray Raphael. 2014. 420 pages.
Myths and the reasons that they have come to replace the real stories of the Revolutionary period.

From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: A Short, Illustrated History of Labor in the United States

Book — Non-fiction. By Priscilla Murolo and A. B. Chitty. Illustrations by Joe Sacco. 2002. 384 pages.
Labor history of the United States.

“The Good War”: An Oral History of World War II

Book — Non-fiction. By Studs Terkel. 2004. 608 pages.
Interviews with over 120 people about WWII.

Teaching Activity by Studs Terkel

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

Book — Non-fiction. By Kyle Ward. 2007. 374 pages.
From the widely acclaimed co-author of History Lessons comes an examination of ways in which Americans tell the history their country has changed over time.

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

Book — Non-fiction. By Dana Lindaman and Kyle Ward. 2004. 404 pages.
How U.S. history is portrayed in textbooks from around the world.

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander, 10th anniversary edition

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Book — Non-fiction. By Michelle Alexander. Introduction by Cornel West. 2010, updated 10th-anniversary edition released in 2020. 336 pages.
A critical analysis of the role the justice system plays in the oppression of African Americans in the United States.

Not Written in Stone: Learning and Unlearning American History Through 200 Years of Textbooks

Book — Non-fiction. By Kyle Ward. 2010. 368 pages.
A critique of the representation of history in textbooks.

A People’s History of the Civil War: Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom

Book — Non-fiction. By David Williams. 2006. 594 pages.
An account of the American Civil War though the eyes of ordinary people.

Teaching Activity by David Williams

A People’s History of Poverty in America

Book — Non-fiction. By Stephen Pimpare. 2008. 322 pages.
A vivid description of poverty from the perspective of poor and welfare-reliant Americans, from the big city to the rural countryside.

A People’s History of Sports in the United States

Book — Non-fiction. By Dave Zirin. 2009. 302 pages.
U.S. history through the lens of sports.

Teaching Activity by Dave Zirin

New Press

Receive The New Jim Crow for Classroom Story

Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism

Bill Moyers Journal: The Conversation Continues

Howard Zinn: Interview by Bill Moyers

May It Please the Court: Live Recordings and Transcripts of Landmark Oral Arguments Made Before the Supreme Court Since 1955

She Would Not Be Moved: How We Tell the Story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Studs Terkel’s “Working”: A Teaching Guide

The Field Guide to the Global Economy

Founding Myths: Stories That Hide Our Patriotic Past

From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: A Short, Illustrated History of Labor in the United States

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

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

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Not Written in Stone: Learning and Unlearning American History Through 200 Years of Textbooks

A People’s History of Sports in the United States

Ultimate Field Guide to the U.S. Economy: A Compact and Irreverent Guide to Economic Life in America

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

Remembering Slavery

Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus