Young people are rediscovering a vision that ‘another world is possible’ and dedicating themselves to public service. Alice and Staughton Lynd offer a significant model of what it can mean…

The strength of this book …encompasses a broad view of history from the bottom up and deals not only with biographical background of the nonelite in labor but with insights…

We Are All Leaders

describes a kind of union qualitatively different from the bureaucratic

business unions that make up the AFL-CIO today. From African American

nutpickers in St. Louis, chemical…

The first of two classic studies that examined the daily life of a typical small american city-in actuality, Muncie, Indiana-in the mid-1920s, using the approach of social anthropology. Of enduring…

This sequel to Middletown returns to the same community in 1935, to examine the changes brought about by the prosperity of the late 1920s and the subsequent Depression. Preface by…

Now an established classic, Intellectual Origins of American Radicalism was the first book to explore this alternative current of American political thought from the seventeenth-century English Revolution to the time…

Former civil rights activist James Marshall tells the complete story of the quest for civil rights in Mississippi. Using a voluminous array of sources as well as his own memories…

Evaluates the prospects for US peace education in the context of post-1945 US foreign policy. This work documents the disparity between US pronouncements about protecting human rights and the country’s…