Graphic History - University of Iowa Libraries

Current Titles in Database:

�Brigadistas! : An American Anti-Fascist in the Spanish Civil War

A Dangerous Woman: The Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman

A Game for Swallows: To Die, To Leave, To Return

A People's History of American Empire: A Graphic Adaptation

A Sailor's Story

A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge

Abina and the Important Men: A Graphic History

Agatha: The Real Life of Agatha Christie

Alexander Hamilton : The Graphic hHstory of an American Founding Father

All the Answers

Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women's Fight for their Rights

André the Giant: Life and Legend

Angola Janga: Kingdom of Runaway Slaves

Anne Frank: The Anne Frank House Authorized Graphic�Biography

Arab in America

Babylon Burning: A graphic history of the making of the modern Middle East

Baby's In Black: Astrid Kirchherr, Stuart Sutcliffe, and The Beatles

Barbarians and the Birth of Chinese Identity: The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms to the Yuan Dynasty (907 - 1368)

Battle Lines A Graphic History of the Civil War

Battlefields Volume 1: The Nightwitches

Berlin, Vol. 1: City of Stones

Berlin, Vol. 2: City of Smoke

Big Black Stand at Attica

Big Jim: Jim Larkin and the 1913 Lockout

Billie Holiday: the graphic novel

Black and Proud James Brown

Black Heroes of the Wild West

Bob Marley in comics

Bohemians: A Graphic History

Bombing Nazi Germany: The Graphic History of the Allied Air Campaign that Defeated Hitler in World War II

Bourbon Island 1730

Burke & Hare: A True Story of Medicine, Murder and Money

Calamity Jane: The Calamitous Life of Martha Jane Cannary, 1852-1903

California Dreamin�: Cass Elliot Before The Mamas & the Papas

Capote in Kansas

Castro: A graphic Novel

Charles Darwin's On The Origin Of Species

Che Guevara: A Manga Biography

Che: A Graphic Biography

Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls Are Used in War

Code Word: Geronimo

COVID Chronicles: true stories from the front lines of COVID-19

Crossroad Blues

Cuba: My Revolution

Dangerous Woman: The Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman

Dark Rain: A New Orleans Story

Darkroom: A Memoir in Black & White

Dong Xoai, Vietnam 1965

Dotter of her Father's Eyes

Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina & New Orleans

Fax from Sarajevo

FIRE!!: The Zora Neale Hurston Story

Flying Kites: A Story of the 2013 California Prison Hunger Strike

Frida: The Story of Her Life

Gabba Gabba Hey! The Graphic Story of the Ramones

Gaijin: American Prisoner of War

Gandhi: my life is my message

Georgia O'Keeffe

Gettysburg: The Graphic Novel

Ghetto Brother: Warrior to Peacemaker

Goddamn this War!

Gonzo: A Graphic Biography of Hunter S. Thompson

Happiness Will Follow

Hedy Lamarr: An Incredible Life

Hip Hop Family Tree

How To Understand Israel in 60 Days Or Less

In-Between Days: a memoir about living with cancer

Incognegro: A Graphic Mystery

Inhuman Traffick: The International Struggle against the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Invisible Differences: A Story of Aspergers, Adulting, and Living a Life in Full Color

Is This Guy For Real? The Unbelievable Andy Kaufman

It was the War of the Trenches

James Joyce: Portrait of a Dubliner

Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City

Johnny Cash-I See A Darkness

Josephine Baker

Killing Geronimo: The Hunt for Osama bin Laden

Knock Out! The True Story of Emile Griffith

Last Day in Vietnam

Latino U.S.A.: A Cartoon History

Leonard Cohen: On a wire

Little White Duck: A Childhood in China

Louis Riel: A Comic Strip Biography

Madison Square Tragedy: The Murder of Stanford White

Malcolm X: A Graphic Biography

March: Book One

March: Book Two

Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story

Marzi: A Memoir

Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History

Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

Mendoza the Jew: Boxing, Manliness, and Nationalism, a Graphic HIstory

Navajo Code Talkers: Top Secret Messengers of World War II

Normandy, a Graphic History of D-Day: The Allied Invasion of Hitler's Fortress Europe

Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths

Operation Ajax: the story of the CIA Coup that remade the Middle East

Our Lady of Birth Control: A Cartoonist's Encounter with Margaret Sanger

Pel�: The King of Soccer

Photographer: Into War-Torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders

Pride of Baghdad

Prophet Against Slavery: Benjamin Lay: A Graphic Novel

Putin's Russia: The Rise of a Dictator

Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea

Redbone: The True Story of a Native American Rock Band

Ronald Reagan: A Graphic Biography

Run for It: Stories of Slaves who Fought for their Freedom

Run Home if you don't want to be killed: The Detroit Uprising of 1943

RX: A Graphic Memoir

Safe Area Gora�de: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995

Sally Heathcote: Suffragette

Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow

Scotland: A Graphic History

Seen: Rachel Carson

Shackleton: Antartic Odyssey

Showtime at the Apollo: The Epic Tale of Harlem's Legendary Theater

Silence of Our Friends

Six Days in Cincinnati: A Graphic Account of the Riots That Shook the Nation a Decade Before Black Lives Matter

Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution

Steve Jobs: insanely great

Still I Rise: A Graphic History of African Americans

Strange Fruit: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History

Studs Terkel's Working: A Graphic Adaptation

Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371

Tales of the Mighty Code Talkers Volume One

The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book

The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation

The Antifa Comic Book: 100 Years of Fascism and Antifa Movements

The Beatles in comics

The Beatles Story

The Black Panther Party

The Bridge: How the Roeblings Connected Brooklyn to New York

The Carter Family: Don't Forget This Song

The Case of Alan Turing: The Extraordinary and Tragic Story of the Legenday Codebreaker

The Chagos Betrayal: How Britain Robbed an Island and Made it People Disappear

The Communist Manifesto

The Far Side of the Moon: The Story of Apollo 11's Third Man

The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Birut� Galdikas

The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story

The Gettysburg Address: A Graphic Adaptation

The Great American Dust Bowl

The Hammer and The Anvil: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the end of slavery in America

The Happy Warrior: The Life Story of Sir Winston Churchill

The Harlem Hellfighters

The Hypo: A Graphic Portrait of the Melancholic Young Lincoln

The Imitation Game: Alan Turing Decoded

The Jewish Brigade

The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of a Slave's Journey from Bondage to Freedom

The Mueller Report

The Rolling Stones in comics

The Story of Roberto Clemente: a graphic Novel

The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth

The Trail of Roger Casement

The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation

The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees

The Zen of Steve Jobs

They Called Us Enemy

Title: Guantanamo Voices: True Accounts from the World�s Most Infamous Prison

T-Minus: The Race to the Moon

To the Heart of the Storm

Tomboy: a graphic memoir

Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb

Trotsky: A Graphic Biography

Tye Leung Schulze: Translator for justice: a comics biography

Verax : the true history of whistleblowers, drone warfare, and mass surveillance

Vietnamerica: a family's journey

Vietnamese Memories, Book 1: Leaving Saigon

War Brothers: The Graphic Novel

War of Streets and Houses

Warren Commission Report: A Graphic Investigation

We'll Soon Be Home Again

When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers

Wobblies! A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World

Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story

Yossell, April 19, 1943: A Story of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty

Zahra's Paradise

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Graphic History is a database of available/in-print graphic novels dealing with historical settings, events, or people. It is hosted by the University of Iowa Libraries.
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