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Date and messageFounded in 1854, Beacon Publishing has published many groundbreaking classics, including James Baldwin's Notes of a Native Son, Herbert Marcuse's One Dimensional Man Notes-of-a-Native-Son-P948.aspx, Jane Baker Miller, “Toward a New Psychology of Women”](http://www.beacon.org/Toward-a-New-Psychology-of-Women-P269.aspx)Women/Environment"](http://www.beacon.org/GynEcology-Revised-P205.aspx) by Mary Daly. In 1971, Bacon printed Senator Gravel's edition of The Pentagon Papers in five volumes. This groundbreaking achievement marked the first appearance of these documents in a book. Bacon also published Marian Wright Edelman's best-selling book, The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children And your children", and Cornel West's famous book "[Race Issues](http://www.beacon.org/Race-Matters-25th-Anniversary-Edition-P1370.aspx)". They includeOur recent publications include critically acclaimed, record-breaking best-selling books, such as James Baldwin's Notes of a Native Son,](http://www.beacon.org/Notes-of-a-Native-Son-P948.aspx)*and A Native History of the United States "(http://www.beacon.org/An-Indigenous-Peoples-History-of-the-United-States-P1164.aspx) by Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, and the book "[*Being Heumann"* by Judith Heumann, and the book"*For Whites Who They teach in“Slums...And for You Too” by Christopher Emdin, and “**Palmares*” by Gayle Jones, nominated for Pulitzer.
For more about our history, please see "A Brief History of Beacon Publishing", published on the occasion of our 150th anniversary.Beacon Publishing and the Pentagon Papers: On October 22, 2006, Beacon Publishing celebrated the 35th anniversary of the publication of the “Senator Gravelle Edition” of *The Pentagon Papers*, the first complete edition of the top-secret Department of Defense studies that revealed decades of American decision-making in Vietnam. On June 24, 2007, Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!, moderated a panel discussion in the General AssemblyWith Dan Ellsberg, Senator Mike Gravel, and former Unitarian Universalist President Bob West, about Beacon Press' role in publishing the Pentagon Papers. Click here for more information.
