1. The Accumulation of Capital
   Resource Type: Book
   Rosa Luxemburg's analysis of the inherent contradictions of capitalist accumulation.
2. American Biographical Index
   Resource Type: Book
   
3. The American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature
   Third Edition
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1995
   
4. American Power and the New Mandarins
   Resource Type: Book
   
5. The American Socialist Movement: 1897-1912
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1952
   
6. The American Working Class in Historical Persepctive
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1973
   A review of Jeremy Brecher's Strike! (See CX6590)
7. Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1987
   
8. Atlas of World History
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1999
   
9. The Best of LIFE
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1973
   Photos from LIFE magazine, 1936-1972
   
10. Biographical Dictionary of the American Left
    Resource Type: Book
    
11. Bound By Power
    Intended Consequences
    Resource Type: Book
    These essays focus on how power and ideology work within society. Interviews are with Noam Chomsky, Linda McQuaig, Robert Bertuzzi and others. They speak to the issues of the understanding of power and political dissent, the repression of dissent in post 9/11 media coverage and the war on terror.
12. Boxcar Bertha: An Autobiography
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    Memoirs of a woman who lived as a hobo and anarchist.
13. Das Capital, Volume 1
    A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1890
    Marx's great work sets out to grasp and portray the totality of the capitalist mode of production, and the bourgeois society that emerges from it. He describes and connects all its economic features, together with its legal, political, religious, artistic, philosophical and ideological manifestations.
14. Chicago 68
    Resource Type: Book
    A vivid history of the political and social movements of that turbulent time, when the power structure felt itself threatened by social movements that rejected much of what it stood for.
15. Chomsky.Info
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    The Noam Chomsky Web site.
16. Common Sense
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1776
    Thomas Paine's justification of revolution.
17. The Communistic Societies of the United States
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1965
    Describes a dozen Utopian societies.
18. Declaration of Independence
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1776
    The document in which the 13 American colonies declared their independence from Great Britain.
19. Democracy is in the Streets
    From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
    A thoughtful and evocative history of the American New Left in the 1960's, looking critically but sympathetically at the struggles and passions of that period.
    
20. Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery
    Resource Type: Book
    
21. Dictionary of American Biography
    Resource Type: Book
    
22. Dictionary of American Communal and Utopian History
    Resource Type: Book
    
23. Dictionary of American History
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
    
24. Dictionary of Mexican American History
    Resource Type: Book
    
25. Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights
    Resource Type: Book
    
26. Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History
    Resource Type: Book
    
27. Encyclopedia of American Economic History
    Resource Type: Book
    
28. Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy
    Resource Type: Book
    
29. Encyclopedia of American Political History
    Resource Type: Book
    
30. Encyclopedia of American Religions
    Resource Type: Book
    
31. Encyclopedia of American Social History
    Resource Type: Book
    
32. Encyclopedia of the American Constitution
    Resource Type: Book
    
33. Failure of a Dream?
    Essays in the History of American Socialism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    Examines the reasons for the relative weakness of American socialism.
34. The Fight for Canada
    Four Centuries of Resistance to American Expansionism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    
35. The Fight for Freedom for Women
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    
36. Fire in the Streets
    America in the 1960s
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1980
    
37. For Reasons of State
    Resource Type: Book
    
38. Freedom Riders
    1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    
39. Friend and Lover
    The Life of Louise Bryant
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    
40. From Yalta To VietNam
    American Foreign Policy In The Cold War
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1967
    
41. A Guide to Archives and Manuscripts in the United States
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1961
    
42. Hegemony or Survival
    America's Quest for Global Dominance
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    
43. Historical Dictionary of Reconstruction
    Resource Type: Book
    
44. Historical Dictionary of the New Deal
    Resource Type: Book
    
45. Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1975
    
46. A History of News
    From the Drum to the Satellite
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    
47. How they shot those campus bums
    Review of The Truth About Kent State
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1973
    How Ohio National Guard troops out to "get" campus radicals and teach them "what law and order is all about" shot down students at Kent State University on May 4, 1970, killing four and wounding nine others.
48. The I.F. Stone's Weekly Reader
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    
49. In a Time of Torment
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
    
50. International Historical Statistics: The Americas and Australia
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    
51. The Invasion of Canada
    1812-1813
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1980
    
52. Inventing the People
    The Rise of Popular Sovereignity in England and America
    Resource Type: Book
    
53. The Iroquois in the War of 1812
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1998
    
54. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
    Volume I: State and Bureaucracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1977
    A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.
55. The Labor Wars
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    A survey of landmark events in the U.S. labour movement.
56. Liberal Dreams and Nature's Limits
    Great Cities of North America Since 1600
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
    An exploration of city life through time, focusing on the life [economically, socially, politically, etc.] of five large North American cities at various times in the past - Philadelphia during the time of Benjamin Franklin (1760), New York in the mid nineteenth-century (1860), Chicago at the beginning of the Progressivist Civic Movements (1910), Los Angeles during the immediate Post-war boom (1950) and Toronto at the beginning of its own ascendancy in the 1970's. (1975).
57. A Long and Terrible Shadow
    White Values, Native Rights in the Americas 1492-1992
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    Against the odds, Native peoples have waged a tenacious struggle to survive and the re-emerge as distinct cultures.
58. Made in America
    An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    
59. Malcolm X
    The Man and His Ideas
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1965
    
60. Malcolm X Speaks
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1965
    A series of speeches, seminars and press conferences given by Malcolm X during the last years of his life in 1964 and early 1965.
61. Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the New Left
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1980
    An analysis of the media's prediliction for "politics of confrontation" in America in the late 60's. He focuses on how the media distorted the anti-war movement.
62. Murdered by Capitalism
    A Memoir of 150 Years of Life & Death on the American Left
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    Much of this book is in the form of a fictional dialogue between two radicals discussing the political events of both of their lifetimes.
63. The National Question
    Selected Writings by Rosa Luxemburg
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
    In her penetrating analysis of nationalism, Rosa Luxemburg argues that the formula, -- the right of nations to self-determination -- is essentially not a political and problematic guideline in the nationality question, but only a means of avoiding that question.
64. Negroes in the Civil War
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1943
    The struggle of the Negro masses derives its peculiar intensity from the simple fact that what they are struggling for is not abstract but is always perfectly visible around them. In their instinctive revolutionary efforts for freedom, the escaping slaves had helped powerfully to begin and now those who remained behind had helped powerfully to conclude, the self-destructive course of the slave power.
    
65. The New Radicalism in America 1889-1963
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1967
    
66. The New Refugees
    American Voices in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    
67. New World Order
    A postwar analysis
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1991
    Everyone is allowed to play the game, so long as it's according to the U.S. rules.
68. Notebook of an Agitator
    Resource Type: Book
    
69. Of National Lies and Racial America
    Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama and the Unacceptability of Truth
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2008
    To some, the horror of 9/11 was not new. To some it was not on that day that "everything changed." To some, everything changed four hundred years ago, when that first ship landed at what would become Jamestown. To some, everything changed when their ancestors were forced into the hulls of slave ships at Goree Island and brought to a strange land as chattel. To some, everything changed when they were run out of Northern Mexico, only to watch it become the Southwest United States, thanks to a war of annihilation initiated by the U.S. government. To some, being on the receiving end of terrorism has been a way of life.
70. The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    
71. Panama invasion protest
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1990
    
72. The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 1: From the Beginning to the Eve of the French Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    
73. Polemics and Prophecies 1967-1970
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    An anthology of I.F. Stone's articles from 1967 - 1970.
74. The Political Economy of Slavery
    Studies in the Economy and Society of the Slave South
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1965
    
75. Politics Past
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    A collection of essays by Dwight Macdonald.
76. The Port Huron Statement
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1962
    A seminal statement of the New Left, adopted by SDS in 1962.
77. Powers and Prospects
    Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
    
78. Profit over People
    Neoliberalism and Global Order
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    
79. The Real Terror Network
    Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1982
    Herman sets out to show that the U.S. ignores or sponsors terror by authoritarian states that are allied with U.S. interests.
80. Rethinking Camelot
    JFK, the Vietnam War, and US Political Culture
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    Chomsky analyzes the Kennedy Administration's policy on the Vietnam War and compares the US Administrations of Presidents Kennedy and Reagan.
    
81. The Right of Self-Determination and the Negro in the United States of North Americas
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1939
    
82. The Robber Barons
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1962
    
83. The Romance of American Communism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
    Using USA Communist Party members' personal experiences, Gornick examines the attraction of the party and its philosophy.
84. SDS
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    
85. Sex and Marriage in Utopian Communities in Nineteenth Century America
    Nineteenth-Century America
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    A look at original approaches to sex and marraige in the utopian communities of nineteenth-century America. Many of these communities abolished monogamy and individualism and sought ways of dealing with the sexual life of the group as a whole.
86. Sisterhood, Interrupted
    From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    A study of controversies in the feminist movement from the 1960s to the 2000s. Siegel wants readers to know about the multifaceted and contentious history of what is called feminism's "second wave" so that they can avoid both the trap of rebelling against its supposed stodgy "political correctness" and that of idealizing its supposedly harmonious "sisterhood".
    
87. '68: The Year of the Barricades
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    Caute's book looks at the explosive year 1968 (while situating it in the context of what had led up to it). One of the great strengths of this excellent book is that it looks at what was happening around the world.
    
88. The Slave Trade
    The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440 - 1870
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    A comprehensive history of the Atlantic slave trade in which approximiately eleven million black slaves were carried from Africa to the Americas to work on plantations, in mines, or as servants in houses.
    
89. SNCC
    The New Abolitionists
    Resource Type: Book
    
90. Soledad Brother
    Resource Type: Book
    
91. Spontaneity and Organization: Some Comments
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1973
    A contribution to a symposium on Jeremy Brecher's book Strike!
    
92. Stolen Continents
    The "New World" Through Indian Eyes
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    The history of the Americas through Native eyes.
93. Strange Cults and Utopias of 19th Century America
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1966
    Histories of communal experiments and communities in the United States.
94. Strike!
    The True History of Mass Insurgence from 1877 to the Present
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    A history-from-below that brings to light strikes as authentic revolutionary movements against the establishments of state, capital, and trade unionism.
95. The Student Movement of the Thirties
    A Political History
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1965
    Most of the references one hears to the student movement of the thirties, and most published references too, are quite wrong in one basic respect: they speak as if #the thirties# represented a single, homogeneous period for the student movement. But the biggest single fact about the history of this movement is that it went through a sweeping change in spirit, methods, and politics, which changed its face completely in mid-course.
    
96. Targeting Iran
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    A critical analysis of the Bush administration's policies towards Iran.
97. Towards a New Past
    Dissenting Essays in American History
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    
98. The Tragedy of American Diplomacy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1962
    
99. The Truth About Kent State
    A Challenge to the American Conscience
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    
100. Uncovering the Sixties
     Life and Times of the Undergound Press
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1985
     A book about the Sixties and how they were recorded by radical participants. It traces how movements and communities convinced that their news did not fit into the agenda of mainstream media covered themselves in print.
101. Underhanded History of the USA
     Radical America - Volumer 7 No.3
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1973
     
102. The Virigina Declaration of Rights
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     Published: 1776
     Drafted in 1776 to proclaim the inherent natural rights of men, including the right to rebel against "inadequate" government. The Declaration was adopted unanimously by the Virginia Convention of Delegates on June 12, 1776.
     
103. War Crimes in Vietnam
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1967
     
104. The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism
     The Political Economy of Human Rights: Volume 1
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1979
     
105. We Own the World
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     Published: 2008
     The whole debate about the Iranian #interference# in Iraq makes sense only on one assumption, namely, that we own the world. If we own the world, then the only question that can arise is that someone else is interfering in a country we have invaded and occupied.
     
106. Weatherman
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1971
     A history of the Weatherman organization.
107. What Happened to the Streetcars?
     Killed by General Motors
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     Published: 2008
     The history of how car companies bought up and destroyed public transit systems in the first half the the twentieth century to eliminate alternatives to the automobile.
     
108. What Uncle Sam Really Wants
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1993
     Chomsky discusses examples of U.S. intervention and links together events stretching over four decades in regions throughout the world. He provides a quick synopsis of American foreign policy and paints a vivid picture of the realities faced by social movements.
109. Working Class Communism
     A Review of the Literature
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1971
     
110. World Orders Old and New
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1994
     
111. The World Without Us
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 2007
     A thought experiment to see what would happen to the planet if human beings simply disappeared.
     
112. Year 501
     The Conquest Continues
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1993
     An examination of the U.S. role in the world placed in the long historical perspective of the 500 years that followed the voyages of Columbus.

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1. Archive of Popular American Music
2. ibiblio.org
3. National Archives of the United States
4. National Museum of American History
5. National Museum of the American Indian