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Howard Zinn fundamentally changed the way millions of people think about history with A People’s History of the United States. He would be the first to say, however, that he didn’t do so alone. The book grew out of his awareness of the importance of social movements throughout U.S. history, some of which he played an active role in during ...
Howard Zinn has 223 books on Goodreads with 846791 ratings. Howard Zinn’s most popular book is A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present.
Nov 17, 2015 · Historian Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States chronicles American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official narrative taught in schools—with its emphasis on great men in high places—to focus on the street, the home, and the workplace.
Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922 – January 27, 2010) [ 1] was an American historian, playwright, philosopher, socialist intellectual and World War II veteran. He was chair of the history and social sciences department at Spelman College, [ 2] and a political science professor at Boston University.
Aug 21, 2001 · Library Journal calls Howard Zinn’s iconic A People's History of the United States “a brilliant and moving history of the American people from the point of view of those…whose plight has been largely omitted from most histories.” Packed with vivid details and telling quotations, Zinn’s award-winning classic continues to revolutionize ...
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Aug 2, 2005 · Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the United States is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of - and in the words of - America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, working poor, and immigrant laborers.
While best known for A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn (1922 – 2010) wrote dozens of books and three plays, and his work is featured in several films, including those listed below.
Zinn wrote more than 20 books, including his best-selling and influential A People's History of the United States in 1980. In 2007, he published a version of it for younger readers, A Young People's History of the United States.
In A People’s History of the United States, our author Howard Zinn does the opposite, telling history from the point of view of the powerless. It starts with Columbus meeting the Native Americans in the late 1400’s.
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From Columbus to the Revolution to slavery and the Civil War—from World War II to the election of George W. Bush and the “War on Terror”—A People’s History of the United States is an...