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Trotskyism in the united states
An outstanding set of informative essays, providing an unsurpassed account of the dynamic revolutionary socialist current known as American Trotskyism.
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The essential rosa luxemburg
A new, authoritative introduction to Rosa Luxemburg's most important works.
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The labor wars
One of America's great labor historians tells the stories of America's great labor struggles.
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Revolution in seattle
Blow-by-blow, an eyewitness account of a hidden chapter in labor history: the Seattle General Strike of 1919.
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Between the lines
A challenge to fundamentally rethink the basis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict today.
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Winter soldiers
The story of the soldiers who spoke their conscience and helped end the war in Vietnam.
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The sinking middle class
A fierce, historically informed polemic against the idea that the middle class is the key to US greatness, past and future.
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Repair
A compelling case for reparations based on powerful, first person accounts detailing both the horrors of slavery and past promises made to its survivors.
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Writing red
A landmark volume showcasing the vital writing of revolutionary women during the 1930s.
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Sexuality and socialism
An indispensable history and contemporary guide to the struggle for authentic sexual equality and liberation.
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A short history of the u.s. working class
Le Blanc presents a colorful, fact-filled history that concentrates on the struggles and achievements of the often neglected laboring majority.
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The silenced majority
Goodman and Moynihan take an anti-establishment stance and get to the heart of today's critical news stories and political events.
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A time to die
The essential first hand account of the Attica Prison rebellion, back in print for the 40th anniversary of the uprising
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Recipes for the melting pot
Recipes for the Melting Pot tells the remarkable story of The Settlement Cook Book, demonstrating how it shaped Jewish American identity—and was in turn shaped by generations of Jewish women.
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From the skyscraper to the wildflower
Presenting striking images from an amateur photographer’s album depicting a changing Broadway, this book offers a rare glimpse into the transformation of New York’s built environment at the turn of the twentieth century.
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The politics of names
This book explores the politics of naming across American history, revealing the surprising ways parents’ choices shed light on public opinion past and present.
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Coding capitalism
Devin Kennedy offers a new history of the digital economy, showing how the computer emerged from—and transformed—capitalism in the United States.
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Individualism and conformism in the united states
In Individualism and Conformism in the United States, Sartre probes the paradox at the heart of American identity: a culture that claims to exalt the self even as it channels that self into mass movements, uniform mores, and ideological frameworks.
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Saving apartheid
This groundbreaking book tells the story of how a transatlantic pro-apartheid movement attempted to defend white rule in South Africa—and forged enduring links between global conservatism and white power.
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Kaleidoscope
Catherine L. Albanese explores collisions between a white Protestant majority and the diversity of faiths flourishing beside it from the colonial era to the present, offering timely insights into transformations in American religion.
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The lavender bans
The Lavender Bans is a comprehensive account of the evolution of anti-LGBTQ+ policies from World War I to the present.
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American literature's war on crime
Theodore Martin offers a groundbreaking account of the ways that reading habits and crime politics intersected in the age of mass incarceration.
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Love, joe
This book presents a selection of Joe Brainard’s letters stretching from 1959 to 1993, offering an intimate view of his personal and artistic life.
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From protest to politics
In From Protest to Politics, Bayard Rustin argues that the era of street protest and moral appeal must give way to organized political engagement and economic strategy.
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The trials of madame restell
The biography of one of the most famous abortionists of the nineteenth century—and a story that has unmistakable parallels to the current war on reproductive rights For forty years in the mid-nineteenth century, “Madame Restell,” the nom de guerre of the most successful female physician in Americ...
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City of workers, city of struggle
City of Workers, City of Struggle brings together essays by leading historians of New York and a wealth of illustrations, offering rich descriptions of work, life, and political struggle. It recounts how workers have built formal and informal groups not only to advance their own interests but als...
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Art monster
Art Monster takes readers to the margins of the professional art world, populated by unseen artists who make a living working behind the scenes in galleries and museums while making their own art to little acclaim.
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Le boogie woogie
The sociologist Terry Williams returns to the cocaine culture of Harlem in the 1980s and ’90s with an ethnographic account of a club he calls Le Boogie Woogie. He explores the life of a cast of characters that includes regulars and bar workers, dealers and hustlers, following social interaction a...
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Two acres of time
Richard S. Laub tells the story of the Byron Dig, an astonishingly rich trove of fossils and artifacts. Recounting twenty-nine years of intensive excavation involving more than a thousand participants, he provides a comprehensive account of a working paleontological and archaeological field project.
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On bicycles
Evan Friss traces the colorful and fraught history of bicycles—and bicyclists—in New York City. He uncovers the bicycle’s place in the city over time, showing how the bicycle has served as a mirror of the city’s changing social, economic, infrastructural, and cultural politics.
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I speak of the city
I Speak of the City is the most extensive collection of poems ever assembled about New York. Beginning with an early piece by Jacob Steendam (from when the city was called New Amsterdam) and continuing through poems written in the aftermath of 9/11, this anthology features voices from more than a...
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American showman
Samuel "Roxy" Rothafel (1882–1936) built an influential and prolific career as film exhibitor, stage producer, radio broadcaster, musical arranger, theater manager, war propagandist, and international celebrity. He helped engineer the integration of film, music, and live performance in silent fil...
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Destination city
Destination City presents the surprising stories of historical figures who are not usually associated with New York City but spent key parts of their lives there.
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The new yorker theater and other scenes from a life at the movies
The nation didn't know it, but 1960 would change American film forever, and the revolution would occur nowhere near a Hollywood set. With the opening of the New Yorker Theater, a cinema located at the heart of Manhattan's Upper West Side, cutting-edge films from around the world were screened for...
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All the art that's fit to print (and some that wasn't)
The never-before-told story of the world's first Op-Ed page.
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They wished they were honest
In fifty years of prosecuting and defending criminal cases in New York City and elsewhere,Michael F. Armstrong has often dealt with cops. For a single two-year span, as chief counsel to the Knapp Commission, he was charged with investigating them. Based on Armstrong's vivid recollections of this ...
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A history of brooklyn bridge park
This book recounts the grassroots effort to transform Brooklyn's defunct piers into an urban oasis. The story of Brooklyn Bridge Park also speaks to larger issues confronting all cities, including the development of postindustrial spaces and the ways to balance public and private interests withou...
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Philip payton
The Black real estate entrepreneur Philip Payton played a central role in Harlem’s transformation into a Black community in the early twentieth century. In this biography, Kevin McGruder explores Payton’s career and its implications for the history of residential segregation.
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Faith in their own color
Craig D. Townsend tells the remarkable story of St. Philip’s, the first African American Episcopal church in New York City, and its struggle for autonomy and independence.
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When did the statue of liberty turn green?
For years, the librarians at the New-York Historical Society have kept a record of the questions posed to them by curious New Yorkers and visitors to the city. Who was the first woman to run for mayor of New York? Why are beavers featured on the city's official seal? Is it true that a nineteenth-...
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Morningside heights
Morningside Heights, the institutional heart of New York City, is also one of the city's most architecturally distinguished neighborhoods. The high plateau that forms Morningside Heights is geographically isolated within the city and remained largely undeveloped even as neighboring Harlem and the...
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From abyssinian to zion
From modest chapels to majestic cathedrals, and historic synagogues to modern mosques and Buddhist temples: this photo-filled, pocket-size guidebook presents 1,079 houses of worship in Manhattan and lays to rest the common perception that skyscrapers, bridges, and parks are the only defining mome...
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A college of her own
A College of Her Own offers a comprehensive and lively narrative of Barnard from its beginnings to the present day. Through the stories of presidents and leading figures as well as students and faculty, Robert McCaughey recounts Barnard’s history and development.
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International express
How the New York City subway helps new immigrants assimilate.
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Taking the train
In the 1960s and early 1970s, young people in New York City radically altered the tradition of writing their initials on neighborhood walls. Influenced by the widespread use of famous names on billboards, in neon, in magazines, newspapers, and typographies from advertising and comics, city youth ...
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City reading
Cultural historian David Henkin explores the influential but little-noticed role played by reading in New York City's public life between 1825 and 1865. From the opening of the Erie Canal to the end of the Civil War, New York became a metropolis, and demographic, economic, and physical changes er...
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Changing the subject
This remarkable story begins in the years following the Civil War, when reformers—emboldened by the egalitarian rhetoric of the post–Civil War era—pressed New York City's oldest institution of higher learning to admit women in the 1870s. Their effort failed, but within twenty years Barnard Colleg...
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Conservatorship
This book is an incisive and compelling portrait of the functioning—and failings—of California’s conservatorship system, drawing on hundreds of interviews with professionals, policy makers, families, and conservatees.
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