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The United States and the War against Zimbabwe, 1965-1980
In November 1965, Ian Smith's white minority government in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) made a unilateral declaration of independence, breaking wi...
Racism and the Political Economy of the Music
A galvanizing history of how jazz and jazz musicians flourished despite rampant cultural exploitation The music we call “jazz” arose in late ninet...
White Supremacy and the Japanese Attack on the British Empire
Japan’s lightning march across Asia during World War II was swift and brutal. Nation after nation fell to Japanese soldiers. How were the Japanese a...
W. E. B. Du Bois and the Afro-American Response to the Cold War, 1944-1963
Many historians have seen a radical shift in W.E.B. Du Bois' political activities in his later years. Following World War II, the evolution of his pol...
William Patterson and the Globalization of the African American Freedom Struggle
A leading African American Communist, lawyer William L. Patterson (1891–1980) was instrumental in laying the groundwork for the defeat of Jim Crowby...
Moguls, Mobsters, Stars, Reds, & Trade Unionists
“A taut narrative in elegant prose . . . Horne has unearthed a vitally important and mostly forgotten aspect of Hollywood and labor history.” —P...
U.S. Imperialism and Anti-communism Vs. the Liberation of Southern Africa, from Rhodes to Mandela
The U.S. in southern Africa during the 19th & early 20th centuries --The U.S. lays the foundation for apartheid, 1906-1930 --Pretoria seeks alliance w...
In this sweeping history, Gerald Horne traces this phenomenon over a century, in a book which should be understood and studied by all anti-imperialist...
The Lives of Shirley Graham Du Bois
Horne tells her remarkable story, exploring her work as a Harlem Renaissance playwright, biographer, composer, teacher, novelist, Left political activ...
The U.S., the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican Republic
Confronting the rise of Black Jacobins, 1791-1793 -- Confronting Black Jacobins on the march, 1793-1797 -- Confronting the surge of Black Jacobins, 17...
The Watts Uprising and the 1960s
In August 1965 the predominantly black neighborhood of Watts in Los Angeles erupted in flames and violence following an incident of police brutality. ...
The Scottsboro Boys and American Justice
Examines the individuals and the issues involved in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case which affirmed the right of an accused person to effective le...
African Americans, Japan, and the Rise of Afro-Asian Solidarity
The surprising alliance between Japan and pro-Tokyo African Americans during World War II In November 1942 in East St. Louis, Illinois a group of Afri...
A Gerald Horne Reader
I Dare Say: A Gerald Horne Reader is a timely and essential collection of the many works of Professor Gerald Horne--a historian who has made an indeli...
African Americans and the British Empire Fight the U.S. Before Emancipation
While it is well known that more Africans fought on behalf of the British than with the successful patriots of the American Revolution, Gerald Horne r...
The United States, Brazil, and the African Slave Trade
During its heyday in the nineteenth century, the African slave trade was fueled by the close relationship of the United States and Brazil. The Deepest...
Lawrence Dennis, Racial Passing, and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism in the United States
What does it mean that Lawrence Dennis—arguably the “brains” behind U.S. fascism—was born black but spent his entire adult life passing for wh...
Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America
Illuminates how the preservation of slavery was a motivating factor for the Revolutionary War The successful 1776 revolt against British rule in North...
African Americans and the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920
Drawing on archives on both sides of the border, the author chronicles the political currents which created and then undermined the Mexican border as ...
A Life in American History
This book provides a new interpretation of the life of W.E.B. Du Bois, one of the most important African American scholars and thinkers of the 20th ce...
The U.S. and Cuba During Slavery and Jim Crow
The histories of Cuba and the United States are tightly intertwined and have been for at least two centuries. In Race to Revolution, historian Gerald ...
The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean
"Account of of the slave trade and its lasting effects on modern life, based on the history of the Eastern Seaboard of North America, the Caribbean, A...
A Biography
This biography of W.E.B. Du Bois gives full measure to his entire life, including his controversial final decades. This revealing biography captures t...
U.S. Imperialism and Black Slavery in the South Seas after the Civil War
Worldwide supplies of sugar and cotton were impacted dramatically as the U.S. Civil War dragged on. New areas of production entered these lucrative ma...
Ferdinand Smith and Radical Black Sailors in the United States and Jamaica
During the heyday of the U.S. and international labor movements in the 1930s and 1940s, Ferdinand Smith, the Jamaican-born co-founder and second-in-co...
The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century
Acclaimed historian Gerald Horne troubles America's settler colonialism's "creation myth" August 2019 saw numerous commemorations of the year 1619, wh...
John Howard Lawson, Dean of the Hollywood Ten
John Howard Lawson was one of the most brilliant, successful, and intellectual screenwriters on the Hollywood scene in the 1930s and 1940s. This biogr...
Claude Barnett's Pan-African News and the Jim Crow Paradox
For nearly fifty years, the Chicago-based Associated Negro Press (ANP) fought racism at home and grew into an international news organization abroad. ...
Texas Slavery & Jim Crow and the Roots of U.S. Fascism
Texas has become a leader of ultra-right forces nationally-especially since the 1950s-when the notorious oilmen were the bulwark of support for McCart...
Ben Davis and the Communist Party
"Black Liberation/Red Scare is a study of an African-American Communist leader, Ben Davis, Jr. (1904-64). Though it examines the numerous grassroots c...
The U.S. and the Liberation of Kenya
Based on archival research on three continents, this book addresses the interpenetration of two closely related movements: the struggle against white ...
Winner of a 2005 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award (Honorable Mention) The Mexican Revolution was a defining moment in the history of race relatio...
The Artist as Revolutionary
"A world-famous singer and actor, a trained lawyer, an early star of American professional football and a polyglot who spoke over a dozen languages. T...
Biographical Interventions Marking 100 Years of the Communist Party, USA
"Let Them Tremble" is a collection of biographies exploring unique and often neglected aspects of the Communist Party, USA and its history. Each inter...
Labor Unions, Racism, and Communists in the Making of Modern Hawai‘i
The wartime civil liberties crackdown brought union organizing to a halt; but as the war wound down, Hawaii workers' frustrations boiled over, leading...
The United States, the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican Republic
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The Clinton Administration and the Nation in Profile
Clinton rode into office on the promise of "change." It was a safe, content- free slogan. After all, in recent years, the most radical proposals for c...
State of the Union 1994 assesses the Clinton administration's first year in office and lays out progressive policy alternatives in the realms of forei...
In this collection of conversations, Dr. Horne confronts the history of settler colonialism and fighting fascism while giving dazzling insights on Jaz...
African Americans and the Early Fight for the Right to Fly
The recent Hollywood film Hidden Figures presents a portrait of how African-American women shaped the U.S. effort in aerospace during the height of Ji...