- Abortion without Apology
Radical History for the 1990s Resource Type: Book Published: 1990 Abortion without Apology gives a historical perpective and description of the experiences, successes and ideas of the early activisism from the 1959 to the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe vs Wade decision.
- Activist archiving in Toronto
Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 People gather in Toronto to discuss what many hope will grow into a movement for archiving grassroots histories.
- After the Ice Age
The Return of Life to Glaciated North America Resource Type: Book Published: 1991
- Against His-story, Against Leviathan!
Resource Type: Book Published: 1983 How Civilization encroached on free peoples. On every continent scribes, traders and kings promoted division of labour, professional armies, social discipline, nationalist, ethnic and class fervour.
- The Age of Empire 1875 - 1914
Resource Type: Book Published: 1996 Covers the rise of bourgeois society, the growth of free market capitalism and the expansion of European colonialism abroad.
- Age of Extremes
The Short Twentieth Century 1914 - 1991 Resource Type: Book Published: 1997 A overview of the history of the years 1914 - 1991.
- All That Our Hands Have Done
A Pictorial History of Hamilton Workers Resource Type: Book Published: 1981 The story of working people in Hamilton's steel industry.
- The American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature
Third Edition Resource Type: Book Published: 1995
- Anarchism
A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas Resource Type: Book
- The Arc of Justice and the Long Run
Hope, History, and Unpredictability Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 North American cicada nymphs live underground for 17 years before they emerge as adults. Many seeds stay dormant far longer than that before some disturbance makes them germinate. Sometimes cause and effect are centuries apart; sometimes Martin Luther Kings arc of the moral universe that bends toward justice is so long few see its curve; sometimes hope lies not in looking forward but backward to study the line of that arc.
- The Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes
315 years. 20,528 voyages. Millions of lives. Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Usually, when we say "American slavery" or the "American slave trade," we mean the American colonies or, later, the United States. But North America was a bit player. From the trade's beginning in the 16th century to its conclusion in the 19th, slave merchants brought the vast majority of enslaved Africans to two places: the Caribbean and Brazil. Of the more than 10 million enslaved Africans to eventually reach the Western Hemisphere, just 388,747 -- less than 4 percent of the total -- came to North America.
- Atlas of World History
Resource Type: Book Published: 1999
- Australian History Archive
Resource Type: Website Documents on socialist history in Australia
- Australians Historical Statistics
Resource Type: Book Published: 1987
- Banned Books
Informal Notes on Some Books Banned for Various Reasons Resource Type: Book Published: 1970
- The Barbarians
Warriors & Wars of the Dark Ages Resource Type: Book Published: 1985
- Beechcombings
The Narratives of Trees Resource Type: Book Published: 2011 The author traces the relatioship between English society and its trees through the ages, from the dependence of the middle ages to stewardship, to dominance, to landscape architecture, to a regret for the lost innocence of virginal forests.
- The Best of LIFE
Resource Type: Book Published: 1973 Photos from LIFE magazine, 1936-1972
- Best Practices for the Social History Domain
Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Index page for the Best practices for the social history domain.
- Beyond Chutzpah
On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History Resource Type: Book Published: 2005 A meticulously researched expose of the corruption of scholarship on the Israel-Palestine conflict. Bringing to bear the latest findings on the conflict and recasting the scholarly debate, Finkelstein points to a consensus among historians and human rights organizations on the factual record. Why, then, does so much controversy swirl around the conflict? Finkelstein's answer, copiously documented, is that apologists for Israel contrive controversy. Whenever Israel comes under international pressure, another media campaign alleging a global outbreak of anti-Semitism is mounted.
- Black Workers, Fordism and the UAW
Book Review of Bates's "The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford" Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 A book review of Beth Tompkins Bates's analysis of how the automotive industry provided an opportunity for African Americans to fight for equal working rights, unionize, and forge an alliance with white workers.
- The Blackest Streets
The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum Resource Type: Book Published: 2008
- 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.
- Boxcar Bertha: An Autobiography
Resource Type: Book Published: 1989 Memoirs of a woman who lived as a hobo and anarchist.
- Brandon University
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Calling All Radicals
How Grassroots Organizers Can Help Save Our Democracy Resource Type: Book Published: 2007 Thompson argues that we can reclaim our democracy through grassroots organizing.
- The Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia
Second Edition Resource Type: Book Published: 1998
- Can the Ruling Class Shape History?
Resource Type: Book Published: 1969 Originally entitled "Vietnam: Endless War".
- Canadians for Genocide Education
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- 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.
- Das Capital, Volume 2
The Process of Circulation of Capital Resource Type: Book Published: 1956
- Das Capital, Volume 3
The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole Resource Type: Book Published: 1971
- The Case for Grassroots Archives
Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called "the battle of memory". People's history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions.
- Centuries of Childhood
Resource Type: Book
- Chambers Dictionary of World History
Resource Type: Book Published: 2005
- Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History
Resource Type: Book Published: 2012 The days of human history.
- Chomsky on MisEducation
Resource Type: Book Published: 2000 Chomsky critiques the education system and discusses what education could be like in a democratic society.
- Christopher Who? -- Discovering the Americas
Resource Type: Article Published: 1990 Columbus seen as a conqueror.
- Chronology of the Modern World 1763 - 1965
Resource Type: Book Published: 1963
- Civilisation
A Personal View Resource Type: Book Published: 1969
- Class Warfare
Interviews with David Barsamian Resource Type: Book Published: 1996
- Collective Memory, Archives, and the Connexions project
Michael Riordon interviews Ulli Diemer Resource Type: Audio Published: 2012 An interview with Ulli Diemer about the Connexions project, collective memory, and the importance of archives and the challenges faced by those who work to preserve them.
- Collective Memory and Cultural Amnesia
Introduction to the December 17, 2017 issue of Other Voices Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Our society is obsessed with the short-term present. It devalues memories and the past. That's the nature of capitalism, especially the speeded-up hypercapitalism of today. The past is useless: profits are made by getting rid of the old and replacing it with something new.
- The Color of Politics
Race and the Mainsprings of American Politics Resource Type: Book Published: 1997
- Combined Retrospective Index to Journals in History 1838-1974
Resource Type: Book
- Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences
Resource Type: Book
- Compass Points
Navigating the Twentieth Century Resource Type: Book Published: 1999 A radical history of the twentieth century by a wide of Canadian authors and essayists grappling with crucial developments in politics, economics, society, and culture in Canada and abroad.
- Connexions
Volume 7, Number 3 - July 1982 - Prairie Region/Region des Prairies Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1982
- Connexions Library: History Focus Page
Resource Type: Website Published: 2012 Selected articles, books, documents and other resources on historical topics.
- Connexions Library: Oral History Focus Page
Resource Type: Website Published: 2012 Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on oral history.
- Connexions Library: Radical and Left History Focus Page
Resource Type: Website Published: 2012
- Connexions Mandate and Statement of Values
Resource Type: Article A succinct summary of the Connexions project and the values that guide it.
- The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism
Resource Type: Book Published: 1984
- The Course of Modern Jewish History
Resource Type: Book Published: 1958 An acount of the Jews from the French revolution to the present day.
- Cry Hungary! Uprising 1956
Resource Type: Book Published: 1986 An account of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
- Culture of Complaint
The Fraying of America Resource Type: Book Published: 1993 Propaganda-talk, euphemism, and evasion are so much a part of American usage today that they cross all party lines and ideological divides. The art of not answering the question, of cloaking unpleasant realities in abstraction or sugar, is so perfectly endemic that we expect nothing else.
- Dark Age Ahead
Resource Type: Book Published: 2004 A dark age is a culture's dead end. Jacobs argues that our society is facing the coming of a dark age.
- The Development of the Monist View of History
Resource Type: Book Published: 1895
- Dialectic and History
An Introduction Resource Type: Book Published: 1947 A pamphlet extracted from James' essay Dialcetical Materialism and the Fate of Humanity, originally published in 1947.
- Dialogues on Cultural Studies
Interviews with Contemporary Critics Resource Type: Book Published: 2002 Thirty-three questions were asked (but not necessarily answered) of each participant, dealing with cultural studies, modernity, postmodernism, referentiality, ideology and history, post-colonialism, neo-orientalism, revolution and tragedy, intellectuals and universities, gender, Marxism, new communications technology.
- A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
From 1900 to the Present Day Resource Type: Book Published: 2003 More than 2,500 entries, detailed yet concise, covering countries, individuals, political parties and movements, and events.
- A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
Resource Type: Book Published: 1983
- Dow complains
7 News responds Resource Type: Article Published: 1978 Dow Chemical writes to 7 News complaining that one of its trademarks has been misused. 7 News editor Ulli Diemer responds.
- A Dune Adrift
The Strange Origins and Curious History of Sable Island Resource Type: Book Published: 2004 The history fo Sable Island.
- Easily Led
A History of Propaganda Resource Type: Book Published: 1999 From Ancient Sumer to modern Poland, Thomson traces the use of propaganda and its influence on human events.
- Elementary, dear teacher
Resource Type: Article Published: 2004 Discusses an 1868 murder as means and motive to teaching history as investigation rather than a timeline with concrete established facts, encouraging more critical thinking and acknowledgement that we can't always know the answers.
- Encyclopaedia Britannica
Resource Type: Book
- Encyclopedia of Democracy
Resource Type: Book
- Encyclopedia of Historic Places
Resource Type: Book
- Encyclopedia of Military History from 3,500 B.C. to the Present
Resource Type: Book
- Encyclopedia of Prehistoric Life
Resource Type: Book
- Encyclopeida of Asian History
Resource Type: Book
- The Enemy of Nature
The End of Capitalism or the End of the World? Resource Type: Book Published: 2007 We live in and from nature, but the way we have evolved of doing this is about to destroy you. Capitalism and its by-products -- imperialism, war, neoliberal globalization, racism, poverty, and the destruction of community -- are all playing a part in the destruction of our ecosystem.
- The English Bible and the Seventeenth-Century Revolution
Resource Type: Book Published: 1994
- Eros in Antiquity
Resource Type: Book Published: 1979 Reviewed in New York Review of Books, November 25, 1979.
- Eros in Greece
Resource Type: Book Published: 1976 Reviewed in New York Review of Books, January 25, 1979
- The Erotic Arts
Resource Type: Book Published: 1975 Covers the uses of erotic themes in various branches of the arts at all times and in many civilizations.
- The Eternal Frontier
An Ecological History of North America and its People Resource Type: Book
- Eurocentrism
Resource Type: Book Amin argues that Eurocentrism is an ideological distortion, a myth and historical fallacy and argues for a new social, economic, cultural and political system based on socialist universalism.
- Eyewitness Chile: After 30 Years
Against The Current vol. 108 Resource Type: Article Published: 2004 When I returned to Chile for the first time in 32 years to attend a week-long seminar called Thirty Years -- Allende Lives! Popular Alternatives and the Socialist Perspective in Latin America, I found myself entering the chilling atmosphere of the world's first laboratory for militarily imposed economic neoliberalsm.
- Fear of the People's History
England's Two Countries Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 England is two countries. One is dominated by London, the other remains in its shadow. They were another nation with a different history, different loyalties, different humour, even different values. At the heart of this was the politics of class.
- The First Century
Emperors, Gods, and Everyman Resource Type: Book Published: 1990
- Five Billion Years of Global Change
A History of the Land Resource Type: Book Published: 2004 From the Big Bang theory to the Web, Five Billion Years of Global Change takes readers through the formation of the world, its oceans and continents, the evolution of the human species, development of agriculture and the growth of international trade. The book will be enjoyed by people interested in the history of the planet and concern for its future.
- For Lust of Knowing
The Orientalists and their enemies Resource Type: Book Published: 2006 A rebuttal of Edward Said which examines who the Orientalists were, how historically they advanced their disciplines, and what their achievements have been. Irwin calls Said's book "a work of malignant charlatanry."
- 1493
Uncovering the New World Columbus Created Resource Type: Book Published: 2011 Alternate title in the United Kingdom: 1493: How the Ecological Collision of Europe and the Americas Gave Rise to the Modern World. A study of the Colombian Exchange -- the biological cross-proliferation between the eastern and western hemispheres and its ripple effects through history.
- 1492-1992 -- Five Centuries of Imperialism and Resistance
Resource Type: Book Published: 1992 Articles critiquing the "Columbus myth, and chronicles the repression of North America's original indigenous inhabitants.
- 1492-1992
Five Centuries of Imperialism and Resistance Resource Type: Book Published: 1992 Relates the European invasion and conquest of the Americas and also tells of the struggles and resistance of the indigenous peoples.
- Free Speech For Me - But Not For Thee
How the American Left and Right Relentlessly Censor Each Other Resource Type: Book Published: 1992 Hentoff is a passionate believer in free speech who recognizes that if speech is truly to be free, we must protect the expression even of ideas we abhors. He catalogues with equal disapproval the efforts of both the right and the left to censor speech they don't like. While being sympathetic to those who object to allowing bigots, racists, pornographers, atheists, and others of many stripes the right to lay out ideas that one group or another finds repugnant, he makes both an intellectual and an emotional case for allowing everyone to have their say, no matter how much this may offend some. He points out that suppressing speech doesn't get rid of the underlying thought, but merely drives it underground and gives it the benefit of martyrdom.
- Freedom Now Vision Unfinished
Book Review of LeBlanc and Yates's "A Freedom Budget for All Americans" Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Miah critiques LeBlanc and Yates' analysis of the Civil Rights Revolution, in light of the fact that the Freedom Budget issued during this time remains unfulfilled.
- Geschichte der Photographie
1839 bis heute Resource Type: Book Published: 2000
- Getting Started on Social Analysis in Canada
Third Edition Resource Type: Book Published: 1988 See also CX2933.
- The Great Transformation
The political and economic origins of our time Resource Type: Book Published: 1968 Polanyi analyzes the social and political upheavals that took place in England during the rise of the market economy. Polanyi contends that the modern market economy and the modern nation-state should be understood not as discrete elements, but as a single human invention he calls the "Market Society".
- The Great Turning as Compass and Lens
Yes! Magazine Summer 2006 Resource Type: Article Published: 2006 The Great Turning is a name for the transition from the industrial growth society to a life-sustaining society. It identifies the shift from a self-destroying political economy to one in harmony with Earth and enduring for the future. It unites and includes all the actions being taken to honor and preserve life on Earth. It is the essential adventure of our time.
- A Green History of the World
The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations Resource Type: Book Published: 1991 Ponting tracks the "green" history of the world showing how throughout history civilizations have collapsed when they exhausted the earth's natural resources.
- Grenada: Island of Conflict
From Amerindians to People's Revolution, 1498-1979 Resource Type: Book This history of the island of Grenada is a timely account of the frequently violent transitions through which Grenadians have lived since even before the arrival of European colonialists. The author provides historical details of how these Caribbean people have always had to struggle against invaders who would enslave them.
- A Guide to the Photographic Identification of Individual Whales Based on Natural & Acquired Markings
Resource Type: Book Published: 1990
- Guns, Germs and Steel
A Short History of Everybody for the Last 10,000 Years Resource Type: Book Published: 1997
- Professor Randall Hansen
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Has Religion Made Useful Contributions to Civilization?
Resource Type: Article Published: 1930 Bertrand Russell's 1930 critique of religious morality and metaphysics.
- Heretics and Renegades
Resource Type: Book Published: 1969 Essasy on the Soviet Union and the Soviet bloc.
- Historical method
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia Resource Type: Article The historical method comprises the techniques and guidelines by which historians use primary sources and other evidence to research and then to write histories in form of accounts of the past.
- Historical Thinking Matters
Resource Type: Website Historical Thinking Matters is a website focused on key topics in U.S. history that is designed to teach students how to critically read primary sources and how to critique and construct historical narratives.
- Historisches Lexikon
Von der Vorzeit bis zur Gegenwart Resource Type: Book Published: 1953
- History and Revolution
A Revolutionary Critique of Historical Materialism Resource Type: Article Published: 1971 Paul Cardan's critique of Marxism'.
- History and Revolution
A Revolutionary Critique of Historical Materialism Resource Type: Book Published: 1971
- History and Class Consciousness
Studies in Marxist Dialectics Resource Type: Book Published: 1971
- A History of Celibacy
Resource Type: Book Published: 2001 This book, mixing both anthropogy and history traces celibacy during the ages. Citing various cultures (Persian, Chinese, Greek, Roman, Europe in the Middle Ages etc.) she explores the power of celibacy and it's offence (that it is unnatural). The book in essence is a history of civilization from one particular angle. Written with both humour and anger it documents some of the strangeness of the world.
- The History of Marxism
1. Marxism in Marx's Day Resource Type: Book Published: 1982
- History of Medicine
A Scandalously Short Introduction Resource Type: Book Published: 1999
- A History of News
From the Drum to the Satellite Resource Type: Book Published: 1988
- A History of Reading
Resource Type: Book Published: 1996 An exploration of what it means to be a reader of books.
- A History of Reading in the West
Resource Type: Book Published: 1999
- The History of the German Resistance 1933-1945
Widerstand, Staatsstreich, Attentat Resource Type: Book Published: 1969 A thorough portrayal of the plans, hesitations, frustrations, and failures of the opposition to Hitler.
- A History of the Jews - Ancient and Modern
Resource Type: Book Published: 1987 Starting from a political interpretation of the period when judges, kings and prophets held sway over Israel and Judah, Ilan Halevi traces the evolution of the Jewish identity through its numerous stages, from the Roman occupation and the decline of Temple authority, through to the Zionist settlement of Palestine in the twentieth century.
- A History of Warfare
Resource Type: Book Published: 1993
- History of Western Philosophy
And its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day Resource Type: Book Published: 1961 A history of western philosophy in relation to its social and economic background.
- History Topic Index in Sources Directory of Experts
Spokespersons, Experts, and Resources Resource Type: Website A subject guide to experts and spokespersons on topics related to history in the Sources directory for the media.
- History: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Resource Type: Article Published: 2018
- The History We Live With
Indian Land Claims in B.C. Resource Type: Article Published: 1977 Booklet discussing the history of treaties and land claims in B.C.
- The Holocaust Chronicle
A History in Words and Pictures Resource Type: Book Published: 2003 A chronological account of the genocide of European Jews at the hands of the Nazis.
- Hungary 1956: A workers' revolt crushed by the "workers' state"
Resource Type: Article Published: 1973 The Hungarian revolution, brief though it was, did as much as a century of socialist theorizing to show what a united and determined people could do to transform their society.
- I May Be Some Time
Ice and the English Imagination Resource Type: Book Published: 1996 Spufford explores the British obsession with the world's coldest and bleakest climes, using their literary representation as his guide.
- Illustrated History of the World
An Encyclopaedia of Events from Pre-Historic Times up to the Present Day Resource Type: Book
- Imagine My Joy
A Family History Resource Type: Book Published: 2001 The family story of Yitzhak and Gita Pearl Cramer and Shimon Levi and Dobeh Blinick and their descendants, spanning pre-revolutionary Czarist Russia to mid-20th Century North America.
- In Praise of the Telescopic Perspective: A Reflection on Living Through Turbulent Times
Perspective to lift the blinders of our cultural moment Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Maria Popova has found solace in taking a more telescopic view - not merely on the short human timescale of her own life, looking back on having lived through a Communist dictatorship and having seen poems composed and scientific advances made under such tyrannical circumstances, but on far vaster scales of space and time.
- Ines of My Soul
Resource Type: Book Published: 2006
- Inside Nazi Germany
Conformity, Opposition and Racism in Everyday Life Resource Type: Book Published: 1992 The author describes what people's daily lives were like during the Nazi regime.
- International Historical Statistics: Africa and Asia
Resource Type: Book Published: 1982
- International Historical Statistics: Europe 1750-1988
Resource Type: Book Published: 1992
- International Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis
Resource Type: Website Maintains a collection, conducts research and offers a range of services in the field of social history in general and labour history in particular. Based in the Netherlands.
- Iraq's greatest danger yet: collapse of 'world's most dangerous dam'
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 As if Iraq has not suffered enough under Saddam Hussein, the vicious UN sanctions regime, the US-UK occupation and the depradations of Daesh, a new threat looms that could kill a million people or more, and destroy Baghdad and a string of other cities along the Tigris river. The porous rocks beneath the Mosul dam are dissolving away and the entire edifice could collapse at any moment, releasing 11 cubic kilometres of water.
- Is that an archive in your basement... or are you just hoarding?
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Are you an 'accidental archivist'? Have you been saving the publications and documents produced by the social justice projects you've been involved in? Then Connexions would like to hear from you.
- Karl and Rosa
November 1918: A German Revolution Resource Type: Book Published: 1983 A novel about the German Revolution of 1918, focusing on Karl Liebknect and Rosa Luxemburg.
- The Late Great Lakes
An Environmental History Resource Type: Book Published: 1986 Ashworth presents five common misunderstandings about the Great Lakes and advocates for improvements, remedial action and ecosystem strategies.
- The Library at Night
Resource Type: Book Published: 2006 The Library at Night tells the story of the important role of libraries in human civilization and how books are an essential link between the individual and the world.
- Libya
From Colony to Revolution Resource Type: Book Published: 2011 Provides the background to the Libyan revolution by discussing its history from colonization up through the 2011 rebellion/foreign intervention that ousted Mu'ammar al-Qadafi.
- Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
Resource Type: Book Published: 2009 Nick Lane expertly reconstructs the history of life by describing the ten greatest inventions of evolution (including DNA, photosynthesis, sex, and sight), based on their historical impact, role in organisms today, and relevance to current controversies.
- Life in Stills
Resource Type: Film/Video Published: 2011 A photo shop owner and her grandson join forces to save the shop and the nearly one million negatives that document Israel's defining moments.
- The Life of Bertrand Russell
Resource Type: Book Published: 1975 A biography of the political activist, philosopher and mathematician.
- The Long Revolution
Resource Type: Book Published: 1965
- Long Shadows
Truth, Lies, and History Resource Type: Book Published: 2001
- Lure of the Sinister
The Unnatural History of Satanism Resource Type: Book Published: 2001
- The Making of E.P. Thompson
Marxism, Humanism, and History Resource Type: Book Published: 1981 This study is an analysis of E.P. Thompson's humanism and Marxism as they are woven throughout his politics, theory, and historical studies. Arguing against a "purely academic reading" of Thompson, Palmer examines the criticisms of Thompson's work and defends the view of history and human agency that leads to a politics of practice, rather than a politics of theory.
- The Making of the English Working Class
Resource Type: Book Published: 1968 Discusses the development of a working class consciousness from the 1790s to the Great Reform Bill
- Making Sex
Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud Resource Type: Book Published: 1990 This is a book about the astonishing story of sex in the West from the ancients to the moderns in a precise account of developments in reproductive anatomy and physiology.
- Making Their Own Freedom
Book Review of Rediker's "The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom" Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 A review of Rediker's re-centering of The Amistad Revellion toward a bottom-up perspective from that of the African slaves involved.
- Making Trouble
Essays on Gay History, Politics, and the University Resource Type: Book Published: 1992
- The Mammoth and the Mouse
Microhistory and Morphology Resource Type: Book Published: 1997 Essays exploring the theoretical relationship between the microhistorical method of paying careful attention to revealing details and the morphological method of looking for homologies among cultural artifacts or texts from different places and times.
- Manifestos, Programs, Visions
Selected Manifestos - Political Statements - Programs Resource Type: Website Published: 2016 A selection of left manifestos, programs, poltical statements and visions from the 1600s to today.
- Man's Worldly Goods
The Story of the Wealth of Nations Resource Type: Book Published: 1968 Huberman sets out to explain history using economic theory, and to explain economic theory using history. He tries to explain, in terms of the development of economic thought, why certain doctrines arose when they did, how they originated in the very fabric of social life, and how they were developed, modified, and overthrown when the pattern of that fabric was changed.
- The Many Roots of Christian Europe
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 This is a transcript of a I talk I gave yesterday at the LSE Literary Festival. My thanks to Arthur Bradley who also took part and responded to many of the themes I raised here and to Danielle Sands of the Forum for European Philosophy for organising the discussion.
- A Marxist History of the World: Making the future
Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Historian Neil Faulkner concludes A Marxist History of the World by looking at what that history can tell us about the possibility for radical social change.
- A Marxist History of the World part 28: The cycles and arrows of time
me Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 In Part 9 of A Marxist History of the World, we paused to discuss how history works. It would be useful to pause again to review some general lessons of the history of the ancient and medieval civilisations we have looked at since.
- A Marxist History of the World part 9: How History Happens
Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 The complex societies that emerged from the division of society into classes also created societies that were wasteful, violent, stagnant and crisis prone. Understanding why is the key to how history happens argues Neil Faulkner.
- Marxists Internet Archive
Resource Type: Website Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
- Marx's Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism
Resource Type: Book Published: 2013 In contrast to the traditional view that Marx's work is restricted to a critique of capitalism and that he consciously avoided any detailed conception of its alternative this work shows that Marx was committed to a specific concept of a post-capitalist society which informed the whole of his approach to political economy.
- Marx's Ecological Notebooks
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 This article investigate Marx's natural-scientific notebooks, especially those of 1868, which will be published for the first time in volume four, section eighteen of the new Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe(MEGA). As Burkett and Foster rightly emphasize, Marx's notebooks allow us to see clearly his interests and preoccupations before and after the publication of the first volume of Capital in 1867, and the directions he might have taken through his intensive research into disciplines such as biology, chemistry, geology, and mineralogy, much of which he was not able fully to integrate into Capital.
- Meander
East to West, Indirectly, Along a Turkish River Resource Type: Book Published: 2012 Jeremy Seal travels down the Meander river and through the history of Turkey in this travelogue.
- The Meaning of Everything
The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary Resource Type: Book Published: 2003
- Memoirs of Montparnasse
Second Edition Resource Type: Book Glassco reconstructs his adventures in Paris in the 1920s. It's comprised of vignettes featuring James Joyce and Gertrude Stein among others.
- Memorial University of Newfoundland
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Memory of Fire: Genesis
Part One of a Triology Resource Type: Book Published: 1985 A meditation on the clashes between the Old World and the New, and an an attempt "to rescue the kidnapped memory of all America." A fierce, impassioned, and kaleidoscopic historical experience that takes us from the creation myths of the Makiritare Indians of the Yukatan to Columbus's first joyous moments in the New World to the English capture of New York.
- Memory of Fire: Faces & Masks
Part Two of a Trilogy Resource Type: Book Published: 1998 A view of the 'New World' in the making, from the 1700s to the end of the nineteenth century.
- Memory of Fire: Century of the Wind
Part Three of a Trilogy Resource Type: Book
- Mirrors
Stories of Almost Everyone Resource Type: Book Published: 2009 Open any history book and you'll learn about revolutionary leaders, decorated generals, genius scientists and passionate artists. What about the leaders assistants? The loyal soldiers? The helpful lab assistants and the inspirations for great art? History books are so filled with greatness that the stories of the people are often neglected. Mirrors resolves this issue. Mirrors is a mosaic of humanity.
- The Modern Age
1760-1955 Resource Type: Book Published: 1963
- Museum of the World and Image
Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Challenges the "official narrative" that re-writes the Civil War as a struggle of "national security" against an "internal communist threat," manifested in the form of unions, student groups, human rights and refugee organizations, progressive Christian base communities, and the peasant insurgency of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN).
- National Geographic Atlas of World History
Resource Type: Book Published: 1997
- Nature of Economies
Resource Type: Book Published: 2001 Jacobs argues that since human beings exist wholly within nature as part of natural order in every respect, we should look to the processes of nature for vibrant and flexible models of economic planning.
- Neue Geschichte der Photographie
Resource Type: Book Published: 1998
- The New Cambridge Modern History Atlas
Resource Type: Book Published: 1970
- New Hogtown Press - Spanish Wikipedia Article
Wikipedia article - Spanish Resource Type: Article
- The New Popular History of the World
The Story of Mankind from Earliest Times to the Present Day - Volume 2 Resource Type: Book Published: 1964
- The Not-So-Secret History of Capitalism
Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 This is a coda to my review of Paul Colliers book Exodus. I questioned the moral and social arguments that Collier employs to justify his arguments, and suggested that there is often a chasm between that evidence and Colliers more contentious arguments, while many of his policy prescriptions are morally questionable.
- Notes on Radicalism
Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 Questions frequently asked when introduced as a co-author of Radical Sydney are: "What is radicalism?"; "Is radicalism dead?"; and specifically with regard to Australia, "Where is radicalism today?". Often, it seems, the unstated, implied premise behind some of these questions is that radicalism once was, but is no more, a questioning underpinned by senses of defeat, confusion, with a hint of nostalgia thrown in.
- On Active Service in War and Peace
Politics and Ideology in the American Historical Profession Resource Type: Book Published: 1975 A well-documented attack on the American historical profession for its rabid anti-radicalism and its complicity in American imperialism.
- 150 Years of Photo Journalism
150 Jahre Photojournalismus / 150 Jaar Fotojournalistiek - The Hulton Getty Picture Collection Resource Type: Book Published: 1995
- Oral history
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article The recording, preservation and interpretation of historical information, based on the personal experiences and recollections of the speaker.
- Organizing that Changed Mississippi
Book Review of Salter Jr.'s "Jackson Mississippi" and Moody's "Coming of Age in Mississippi" Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 A review of two books about the Mississippi's civil rights movement in 1965 from the perspectives of an African-American female student and a Native American male professor.
- The Other Mexico
The North American Triangle Completed Resource Type: Book Published: 1995
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 17, 2017
Collective Memory and Cultural Amnesia Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2017 Our society is obsessed with the short-term present. It devalues memory and the past. But there are those who do remember, and who work to preserve and share our collective memory. But they have to contend with those of us who see historical memory as a way of contributing to the struggle for a different world. For us, knowledge of history is subversive, and remembering can be a form of resistance.
- Out In The World
Gay and Lesbian Life from Buenos Aires to Bangkok Resource Type: Book Published: 1992
- The Outline of History Volume I
Being a plain history of life and mankind Resource Type: Book Published: 1971
- The Outline of History Volume II
Being a plain history of life and mankind Resource Type: Book Published: 1971
- The Oxford Companion to Canadian History
Resource Type: Book Published: 2004 Here are the basic details of the main events, institutions, places, and people in Canada's past. The topics appear to be politics, economy, education, religion, law, medicine, science, transportation, social and cultural events.
- The Oxford History of Modern War
Resource Type: Book Published: 2005 The book is a military history, principally from the defeat of the Ottoman besiegers of Vienna in 1683.
- The Paris Commune told in pictures
Resource Type: Article Published: 1934 An illustrated history of the Paris Commune of 1871.
- Passionate Declarations
Essays on War and Justice Resource Type: Book Published: 2003 Essays looking at American political ideology.
- The Penguin Atlas of Modern History (to 1815)
Resource Type: Book
- The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 1: From the Beginning to the Eve of the French Revolution
Resource Type: Book Published: 1974
- The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 2: From the French Revolution to the Present
Resource Type: Book Published: 1978
- People's History, Memory & Archives
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 A gateway to resources on people's history and grassroots archives.
- A People's History of the World
From the Stone Age to the New Millennium Resource Type: Book Published: 1999 Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
- The Perspective of the World
Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol. 3 Resource Type: Book Published: 1984
- The Phenomenology of Mind
Resource Type: Book Published: 1807 The birthplace and essence of Hegel's dialectic.
- The Philosophy of Antonio Negri
Resistance in Practice Resource Type: Book Published: 2005
- Pocket History of the British Working Class
Resource Type: Book Published: 1964 A brief history of the British working class.
- Politics of Communication
A Study in the Political Sociology of Language, Socialization, and Legitimation Resource Type: Book Published: 1973
- The Professionalization of History
Resource Type: Article Published: 1971 The professionalization of history in the US and Canada. Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 5, Number 1, Winter 1971.
- Progress and Barbarism
The World in the Twentieth Century Resource Type: Book Published: 1998
- Quotes about History
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Radical Mass Media Criticism
A Cultural Geneology Resource Type: Book Examines the thinkers who have reacted against the increasing media power. From the critiqes of the corrupt press during the First World War, an analysis of the relationship between public opinion and propaganda diring the Nazi years and the bias of the supposed objective news of today. Contributors include Noam Chomsky, Slavko Splichal, Joost van Loon and many other leaders in the international field.
- Ragpicking Through History: Class Memory, Class Struggle and its Archivists
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Our current conjuncture invites a renewed rethinking of two historical imaginaries: first, what is class memory? To ask this question is really to reopen a discussion on what is class struggle and, more specifically, how does our collective memorialisation of struggles past inform our relationship to struggle in the present. Second, and relatedly, who can be this struggle's archivist?
- Remember the '80s
Social Movements Between Woodstock and the Web Resource Type: Article Published: 2008 The history of 1980s activism deserves to be remembered and studied by those fighting for change today.It always helps to have a fuller view of the past, to figure out what to keep and what to discard.
- Rescuing Memory: the Humanist Interview with Noam Chomsky
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016
- Resistance in Europe: 1939 - 45
Resource Type: Book Published: 1976 Essays on the resistance against Hitler during World War II.
- Responsibility and Judgment
Resource Type: Book Published: 2003
- The Revenge of History
The Battle for the 21st Century Resource Type: Book Published: 2012 A critical account of the first decade of the twenty-first century.
- Review: Ashwin Desai, Reading Revolution: Shakespeare on Robben Island
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 A book review: Ashwin Desai, Reading Revolution: Shakespeare on Robben Island.
- The Rise of the West
A History of the Human Community Resource Type: Book Published: 1963
- The Road to Wigan Pier
Resource Type: Book Published: 1937 George Orwell's investigation of an English working class community in the 1930s.
- Rooms with a View of Russian Artistic History
Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Discussing the challenges for the small historic museums seeking to establish themselves in St. Petersburg.
- Royal BC Museum
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- A Saga of Revolution
Book Review of Reiss' "The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo" Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 A review of Tom Reiss' biography of Alexandre Dumas, a largely underemphasized figure in the French Revolution and the slave trade during the 18th century.
- Said, Edward, Critical Notes on
Resource Type: Article Published: 2005 Edward Said was admired by the anti-imperialist left for his courageous defence of Palestinian rights. However, Irfan Habib argues that unfortunately Said's scholarly work, notably his major work 'Orientalism,' was confused and sloppy to be point of being unethical.
- Seeds of Fire
A People's Chronology Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Recalling events that happened on this day in history. Memories of struggle, resistance and persistence.
- Selections from the Prison Notebooks
Resource Type: Book Published: 1973 Gramsci's Notebooks cover a wide range of subjects including history, culture, politics, and philosophy.
- The Seventh Decade
The New Shape of Nuclear Danger Resource Type: Book Published: 2008 The Seventh Decade reveals many things. Amongst them is the history of global nuclear politics and the Bush government's policies that endanger the security of Americans and the world. Schell asserts that the Bush/ Cheney administration has forsaken traditional diplomacy and treaties that restrain nuclear proliferation preferring a first-strike military option. In so doing they have attacked Iraq using the excuse that they had WMD's, and have threatened North Korea and Iran with no results-North Korea now has the bomb and Iran is on the way. The administration has also encouraged the development of new generations of such weapons. He contends that the policies of the American government has intensified the trafficking of nuclear weapons which pose a renewed threat to humanity.
- Sexual Anarchy
Gender and Culture at the Fin de Siecle Resource Type: Book Published: 1990
- Sexual Practices: The Story of Human Sexuality
Resource Type: Book Published: 1983 An introduction to how to think about sexual behavior as an anthropologist, or any scientist, should.
- Shaping Histories
Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 During the last few years, a number of researchers have interviewed the authors regarding their politics and practice in relation to 'history'. In reflecting upon their individual 'historiographies', they have put the following together.
- Skills Mania
Snake Oil in Our Schools? Resource Type: Book Published: 2000 Davis argues that the purpose of education should not be primarily that of teaching skills useful in the job market.
- 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.
- Slavery's Harrowing Reality
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 A review of the film "12 Years as a Slave" in the context of the literary genre of slave narratives.
- Social History Portal
Resource Type: Website Search and browse digital collections on social history and the history of the labour movement from the late 18th to the beginning of the 21st century. More than 900,000 digitised objects (archives, books, brochures, leaflets, photographs, posters, prints, cartoons, sound, films and videos) from 15 specialized archives and libraries in Europe.
- Social and Labour History News
Resource Type: Website Recent new from the field of social and labour history.
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- The Socialist Register 1990
Volume 26: The Retreat of the Intellectuals Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1990 Essays on the retreat away from socialism and Marxism by Left or formerly Left intellectuals.
- Sources welcomes Canadians for Genocide Education
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 CGE is a multi-cultural coalition of associations committed to equity and inclusivity in education on and commemoration of Genocide. Our focus areas are school curriculum and government funded projects relating to genocide and human rights.
- Sources welcomes Michael Riordon
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 Sources welcomes a new member: Michael Riordon. Canadian writer and documentary-maker Michael Riordon writes/directs/produces books and articles, audio, video and film documentaries, plays for radio and stage.
- The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain
Resource Type: Book Published: 2012 Paul Preston charts how and why Franco and his supporters set out to eliminate all those who do not think as we do some 200,000 men, women and children across Spain.
- Spartacus Educational
Resource Type: Website Published: 2018 Free educational resource for history teachers and students. With particular focus on Britain, the USA, Russia, Germany, WWI, WWII, Women's history, Black history, Civil Rights.
- Spuren suchen
Resource Type: Book Published: 1985
- The Story of English
Resource Type: Book Published: 1992
- The Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
Resource Type: Website The Tamiment Library contains some of the most important collections in the United States relating to labor and social history [labor collections], the history of the Left, the place of the worker in American society, the evolution of labor law, women's history, immigrant history, and much more.
- Targeting Iran
Resource Type: Book Published: 2007 A critical analysis of the Bush administration's policies towards Iran.
- Telling Tales
Storytelling in the family Resource Type: Book Published: 2003 A guide to the art of storytelling.
- Theories of History
Resource Type: Article Published: 2006 Conventional history tends to make ordinary people invisible. The motive forces of history are treated as some combination of "great men" (very occasionally women, almost always hetero and white regardless of gender) and impersonal forces like "economics" (treated in ways that reify them and give them agency outside of the local, everyday human activities that actually produce them).
- There Was a Country
A Personal History of Biafra Resource Type: Book Published: 2012 A coming of age account, set against the backdrop of the Nigerian Civil War, or the Biafran War, of 1967-1970.
- Three Myths of Immigration
Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Kenan Malik sets out to explain to a Canadian audience, for whom multiculturalism has a very different meaning than it does to a European one, the contours of the European debate, as well as his disagreements with both sides. In particular he shows why both multiculturalists and many of their critics (particularly their rightwing critics) buy into the same set of myths about the history of immigration into Europe.
- The Throes of Democracy
Brazil since 1989 Resource Type: Book Published: 2008
- The Time Before History
5 Million Years of Human Impact Resource Type: Book Published: 1996
- Towards a New Past
Dissenting Essays in American History Resource Type: Book Published: 1969 A critical look at established views of American history.
- The Transformation of American Law, 1870-1960
The Crisis of Legal Orthodoxy Resource Type: Book Published: 1992 Morton J. Horwitz offers a sweeping overview of the emergence of the American national (and modern) legal system from English and colonial antecedents.
- An Unauthorized Biography of the World
Oral History on the Front Lines Resource Type: Book Published: 2004 This book uses oral history to discuss oral history. It is in memoir style, and delves into how oral history is done in such places as First Nations (Canada), Turkey, Chicago, Newfoundland, Peru, New York City, Cleveland, Israel, and other places. Riordon's concept is about telling stories, celebrating diversity, and making connections between people.
- Université de Moncton
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- University of Waterloo
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- University of Winnipeg
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- The Unknown Dimension
European Marxism Since Lenin Resource Type: Book Published: 1972 The radical intellectual tradition of European post-Leninist Marxism, so different from the dogma of the orthodox leftist parties, is an unknowwn dimension. This anthology sets out to recover this Marxist tradition and to restore the centrality of Marxist revolutionary thought and practice.
- Review: The Uses and Abuses of History
Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Review of "The Uses and Abuses of History" by Margaret Macmillan.
- Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe
Resource Type: Book Published: 2011 A look at kingdoms that no longer exist and how their presence and disappearance affects history.
- Visioning a World Without Capitalism
Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 As leftists we have something infinitely more precious to win from our rich history than sentimentality and sectarianism, as we struggle to renovate the revolutionary tradition in the twenty-first century.
- Voyages
Canada's Heritage Rivers Resource Type: Book Published: 1995
- A Walk in the Forest
Resource Type: Book Published: 1966
- Die Welt der Photographie
von ihren Anfangen bis zur Gegenwart Resource Type: Book Published: 1962
- Western Sexuality
Practice and Precept in Past and Present Times Resource Type: Book Examines homosexuality, sex and the Church, prostitution, and notions of love and marriage.
- What is History?
Resource Type: Book Published: 1965
- Whatever Happened to High School History?
Burying the Political Memory of Youth, Ontario: 1945-1995 Resource Type: Book Published: 1995 A look at how high school history was taught between the 1940's and 1990's, and subsequent decline iof the discipline that used to be a core subject in Canadian secondary education.
- Who owns knowledge?
Resource Type: Article Published: 2007 The resurgence of a Romantic view of culture poses a real menace to the free flow of knowledge and threatens to corral it into intellectual Bantustans. The ideas of free speech and open debate become meaningless if we fail to defend a universalist concept of knowledge or if we accept the notion of science as but a local view whose factual claims must defer to cultural and political needs. If scientific debate is constrained to express only sentiments with which people feel comfortable, culturally and politically, then science dies as the line between knowledge and myth becomes eroded.
- Why History Makes Us Important
Back to Bachima Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 History has been important to me for as long as I can remember. As a child I loved hearing my relatives tell stories about the past. However, it was not until I was older that I realized that the stories meant something; they were key to understanding the present; and why we are what we are. As my awareness increased, I became serious about the past so serious that it often got me into trouble.
- Wobblies & Zapatistas
Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical Theory Resource Type: Book Published: 2008 Wobblies and Zapatistas offers readers an encounter between two generations and two traditions. Staughton Lynd and Andrej Grubacic meet in dialogue in an effort to bring together the anarchist and Marxist traditions, to discuss the writing of history by those who make it, and to remind us of the idea that 'my country is the world'.
- 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.
- The Worst Journey in the World
Antarctica 1910-1913 Resource Type: Book Published: 1922 Apsley Cherry-Garrard's memoir of his experiences in Antartica, his 'winter journey' across the Ross Ice Shelf to Cape Crozier, and his two southward trips - first in aid to Robert Scott's South Pole expedition, and second in search of that lost party.
- 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.
- "You Can't Kill a Revolution"
Book Review of Bloom and Martin's "Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party" Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 A book review of Bloom and Martin's "Black Against Empire" and a look at the interpersonal relationships between the members of the Black Panther Party that allowed the group to gain support.
- You Can't Read This
Forbidden Books, Lost Writing, Mistranslations, and Codes Resource Type: Book Published: 2006 Written for children ages ten and up, You Can't Read This explores the development of alphabets, the decoding of ancient languages, and censorship in Ancient Rome and modern America.
- You, You and You!
The People Out of Step with World War II Resource Type: Book Published: 1981 First hand accounts of men, women and children living through World War II.
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