For much of his life, historian Howard Zinn chronicled American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version taught in schools - with its emphasis on great men in high places - to focus on the street, the home, and the workplace.
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, the working poor, and immigrant laborers. As Zinn shows, many of our country’s greatest battles - the fights for a fair wage, an eight-hour workday, child-labor laws, health and safety standards, universal suffrage, women’s rights, racial equality - were carried out at the grassroots level, against bloody resistance.
Covering Christopher Columbus’ arrival through President Clinton’s first term, A People’s History of the United States features insightful analysis of the most important events in our history.
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else); Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
Late Victorian Holocausts - El Niño Famines & the Making of The Third World; Mike Davis
American Exception - Empire and the Deep State; Aaron Good
No Shortcuts - Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age; Jane F. McAlevey
The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan - the Fragility of U.S. Power; Vijay Prashad & Noam Chomsky
Part Three - The Age of Extremes 1914-1991; Eric Hobsbawm
Part Two - The Age of Extremes 1914-1991; Eric Hobsbawm
Part One - The Age of Extremes 1914-1991; Eric Hobsbawm
Part Two - The Age of Empire 1875-1914; Eric Hobsbawm
Part One - The Age of Empire 1875-1914; Eric Hobsbawm
The Age of Capital 1848-1875; Eric Hobsbawm
Part Two - The Age of Revolution 1789-1848; Eric Hobsbawm
Part One - The Age of Revolution 1789-1848; Eric Hobsbawm
Part Two - Black Reconstruction of America; W.E.B. Du Bois
Part One - Black Reconstruction in America; W.E.B. Du Bois
The Black Jacobins; CLR James
The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World; Douglas Valentine
Our History is the Future; Nick Estes
Are Prisons Obsolete; Angela Davis
Women, Race & Class; Angela Davis
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