Book — Non-fiction. Edited by Sarah Blanc. 2014. 115 pages.
A collection of interviews conducted by the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program over seven years in Sunflower County, Mississippi. The stories provide a powerful first person introduction to the history of the Mississippi Civl Rights Movement.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Robert Whitaker. 2009. 386 pages.
The story of the 1919 Elaine massacre in Hoop Spur, Arkansas.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Norman Solomon. 2023. 240 pages.
Too often, our curriculum “makes war invisible.” Too often, the ravages of U.S. militarism go unexamined in our classes. This fact-filled book insists: Teach about this; people’s lives depend on it.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Jason Stanley. 2026. 272 pages.
A global call to action for those who wish to preserve democracy — in the United States and abroad — before it is too late.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Ted Steinberg. 2018. 370 pages.
A sweeping history of the United States — a history that places the environment at the very center of the narrative.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Matthew F. Delmont. 2026. 368 pages.
The history of the Vietnam War with a focus on the African American experience in the antiwar movement and as returning soldiers.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw. 2026. 400 pages.
This memoir traces the way Crenshaw’s lived experiences led her to articulate the concepts of intersectionality and critical race theory.
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Book — Non-fiction. By by Yolanda Alaniz and Megan Cornish, with a foreword by Rodolfo Acuña. 2008. 368 pages.
A history of Chicana/o militancy, from the occupation of Northern Mexico to the 1990s.
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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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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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