Books: Non-Fiction

Addicted to War: Why the U.S. Can’t Kick Militarism, An Illustrated Guide

Book — Non-fiction. By Joel Andreas. 2024. 88 pages.
A comic book expose on militarism in graphic format, making it accessible for high school and above.

Time Periods: All US History
Themes: Imperialism, US Foreign Policy, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements
Levels: High School
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Political comics at its best. Bitterly amusing, lively, and richly informative. For people of all ages who want to understand the link between U.S. militarism, foreign policy, and corporate greed at home and abroad. — Michael Parenti, author of History as Mystery and To Kill a Nation

addictedAddicted to War: Why the U.S. Can’t Kick Militarism takes on the most active, powerful, and destructive military in the world.

Hard-hitting, carefully documented and heavily illustrated, it reveals why the United States has been involved in more wars in recent years than any other country. Read Addicted to War to find out who benefits from these military adventures, who pays and who dies. Over 450,000 copies of the previous editions are in print.

This edition is substantially reworked and fully updated including Barack Obama’s drone wars, Chelsea Manning and WikiLeaks, statistics on military spending, and the ongoing costs and consequences of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

ISBN: 9798887440736 | PM Press

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Adicto a la Guerra
Books: Non-Fiction, Spanish/Bilingual

Adicto a la Guerra: Por que el E.E.U.U. no Puede Librarse del Militarismo

Book — Non-fiction. By Joel Andreas. 2005. 80 pages.
Spanish-language edition of the expose on militarism in graphic novel format. Accessible for high school and above.

Rethinking the Vietnam War | Zinn Education Project
Teaching Activities (Free)

Rethinking the Teaching of the Vietnam War

Teaching Activity. By Bill Bigelow. Rethinking Schools. 8 pages.
A role play on the history of the Vietnam War that is left out of traditional textbooks.

Films

Regret to Inform

Film. By Barbara Sonneborn. 1998. 72 minutes. Teaching Guide by Bill Bigelow. Chapter from A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn.
A profound documentary on the impact of war, with a teaching guide and the chapter of A People’s History of the United States on the Vietnam War, “Impossible Victory.”

United States Marine Corps in the Iraq War
This Day in History

March 20, 2003: Iraq War Invasion

It’s worth pausing to note how profoundly corporate textbooks mis-educate our students on the years of warfare in Iraq.

This Day in History

April 5, 2010: Whistleblower Chelsea Manning’s Leaked Military Files Published on WikiLeaks

WikiLeaks published the first of several classified files leaked by Chelsea Manning, an Army intelligence analyst deployed in Iraq, in what is one of the largest disclosures of classified military documents in U.S. history.