Book — Non-fiction. By David Lester and Marcus Rediker, and edited by Paul Buhle. 2026. 136 pages.
graphic history of how enslaved Africans on board the Amistad rebelled and captured the slave ship in 1839, challenging a whitewashed version of history and putting the Africans back at the center of their own freedom story.
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Book — Non-fiction. By David Conrad-Pérez. 2026. 336 pages.
A major reinterpretation of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911 and its lasting impact.
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Teaching Activity. By Tiferet Ani and Mimi Eisen. 2026. 27 pages.
In this mixer lesson, students surface choices and outcomes navigated by an array of Black and Indigenous people in the American Revolution to examine what freedom meant to those excluded from it at the U.S. founding.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Ilan Pappe. 2024. 146 pages.
The best concise story of the events that took us to Oct. 7, 2023, and the subsequent genocide in Gaza.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Gautham Rao. 2026. 320 pages.
Uncovers how slaveholders created their own white supremacist police and government to deny Black people rights, power, and humanity.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Jaz Brisack. 2026. 320 pages.
Highlighting the Starbucks and Tesla unionization efforts, this book tells the broader story of the new, nationwide labor movement unfolding in our era of political and social unrest.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Kelly Lytle Hernández. 2026. 320 pages.
Reveals how generations of lawmakers and law enforcers built the American immigration system to encourage white immigrants while targeting nonwhite migrants for exclusion, punishment, and removal.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Howard Bryant. 2026. 320 pages.
Highlighting the lives of Paul Robeson and Jackie Robinson, this book tells the story of sports and fame, Black life in the United States, and the promise of integration through the Cold War lens of two transformative events.
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