The Founding
The ideas used to build the republic, the people excluded from its promises, and the arguments Americans still have about both.
Books, art, apparel, and independent editorial workForbidden
Forbidden
America
American history and culture deserve more than a slogan.
America is worth examining
because America matters.
Forbidden America publishes books and editorial work about American history, power, belief, culture, and identity. Art and apparel extend those subjects into physical editions when the work and the format belong together.
American art, with the history attached.
Each approved work will include the context behind it and a clear account of the editions in which it is available.
02 / ApparelAmerican culture translated into apparel.
Designs will be adapted for garments individually rather than copied from a rectangular print and placed on every available product.
03 / BooksBooks that make a case.
Our publishing program covers American history, politics, belief, identity, and culture. CHOSEN? is the first title.
04 / StoriesReporting and essays about American life.
Read work about public power, civil liberties, faith, technology, media, regional history, and the questions beneath the daily news.
American history does not fit into a single collection.
American Machine
Workers, factories, invention, infrastructure, and the human cost of becoming an industrial power.
The Frontier
The landscapes, migrations, conflicts, myths, and regional identities that shaped the American West.
The Space Age
The engineers, pilots, astronauts, public money, political ambition, and machinery behind American aviation and spaceflight.
Texas
Borderlands, independence, industry, folklore, music, and the competing histories that continue to shape the state.
Forbidden America Book 001
Available in paperback
CHOSEN? is our first book, not our only subject.
CHOSEN?
CHOSEN? Donald Trump, Providence, and the Biblical Pattern of the Imperfect Instrument asks whether a deeply imperfect political figure can still fit a biblical pattern of historical use. It separates documented events from theological interpretation and gives serious attention to the case against its own argument.
Read our latest work on power, technology, faith, and public life.
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