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  1. A People's History of the United States is a 1980 nonfiction book (updated in 2003) by American historian and political scientist Howard Zinn. In the book, Zinn presented what he considered to be a different side of history from the more traditional "fundamental nationalist glorification of country". [1]

    • Howard Zinn
    • 1980
    • Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress. Brandon, William. The Last Americans: The Indian in American Culture. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974.
    • Drawing the Color Line. Aptheker, Herbert, ed. A Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States. Secaucus, N.J.: Citadel, 1974. *
    • Persons of Mean and Vile Condition. Andrews, Charles, ed. Narratives of the Insurrections 1675-1690. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1915. Bridenbaugh, Carl.
    • Tyranny Is Tyranny. Bailyn, Bernard, and Garrett, N., eds. Pamphlets of the American Revolution. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1965. Becker, Carl.
  2. Covering Christopher Columbus's arrival through President Clinton's first term, A People's History of the United States, which was nominated for the American Book Award in 1981, features insightful analysis of the most important events in our history.

    • (13.8K)
    • $21.12
    • Howard Zinn
    • Harper Perennial
  3. Aug 31, 2011 · Revised and updated with two new chapters covering Clinton's presidency, the 2000 election, and the "war on terrorism", a People's History of the United States features insightful analysis of the most important events in our history

  4. Asia, gold and spices. For, like other informed people of his time, he knew the world was round and he could sail west in order to get to the Far East. Spain was recently unified, one of the new modern nation-states, like France, England, and Portugal. Its population, mostly poor peasants, worked

  5. Nov 2, 2010 · 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 important...

  6. Jan 1, 2001 · 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.

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