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Contributions by Rebecca Stefoff

By Howard Zinn
Adapted by Rebecca Stefoff
Contributions by Ed Morales

By Howard Zinn
Adapted by Rebecca Stefoff
Contributions by Ed Morales

By Howard Zinn
Contributions by Rebecca Stefoff

By Howard Zinn
Contributions by Rebecca Stefoff

By Howard Zinn
Adapted by Rebecca Stefoff
Contributions by Ed Morales

By Howard Zinn
Adapted by Rebecca Stefoff
Contributions by Ed Morales

By Howard Zinn
Contributions by Rebecca Stefoff

By Howard Zinn
Contributions by Rebecca Stefoff

By Howard Zinn
Adapted by Rebecca Stefoff
Contributions by Ed Morales

By Howard Zinn
Adapted by Rebecca Stefoff
Contributions by Ed Morales

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    About A Young People’s History of the United States

    A Young People’s History of the United States brings to US history the viewpoints of workers, slaves, immigrants, women, Native Americans, and others whose stories, and their impact, are rarely included in books for young people. A Young People’s History of the United States is also a companion volume to The People Speak, the film adapted from A People’s History of the United States and Voices of a People’s History of the United States.
    Beginning with a look at Christopher Columbus’s arrival through the eyes of the Arawak Indians, then leading the reader through the struggles for workers’ rights, women’s rights, and civil rights during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and ending with the current protests against continued American imperialism, Zinn in the volumes of A Young People’s History of the United States presents a radical new way of understanding America’s history. In so doing, he reminds readers that America’s true greatness is shaped by our dissident voices, not our military generals.

    About A Young People’s History of the United States

    A Young People’s History of the United States brings to US history the viewpoints of workers, slaves, immigrants, women, Native Americans, and others whose stories, and their impact, are rarely included in books for young people. 

    Beginning with a look at Christopher Columbus’s arrival through the eyes of the Arawak Indians, then leading the reader through the struggles for workers’ rights, women’s rights, and civil rights during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and ending with the current protests against continued American imperialism, Zinn presents a radical new way of understanding America’s history. In so doing, he reminds readers that America’s true greatness is shaped by our dissident voices, not our military generals.

    A Young People’s History of the United States is also a companion volume to The People Speak, the film adapted from A People’s History of the United States and Voices of a People’s History of the United States.

    About A Young People’s History of the United States

    A Young People’s History of the United States brings to US history the viewpoints of workers, slaves, immigrants, women, Native Americans, and others whose stories, and their impact, are rarely included in books for young people. 

    Beginning with a look at Christopher Columbus’s arrival through the eyes of the Arawak Indians, then leading the reader through the struggles for workers’ rights, women’s rights, and civil rights during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and ending with the current protests against continued American imperialism, Zinn presents a radical new way of understanding America’s history. In so doing, he reminds readers that America’s true greatness is shaped by our dissident voices, not our military generals.

    A Young People’s History of the United States is also a companion volume to The People Speak, the film adapted from A People’s History of the United States and Voices of a People’s History of the United States.

    About A Young People’s History of the United States

    A Young People’s History of the United States brings to US history the viewpoints of workers, slaves, immigrants, women, Native Americans, and others whose stories, and their impact, are rarely included in books for young people. 

    Beginning with a look at Christopher Columbus’s arrival through the eyes of the Arawak Indians, then leading the reader through the struggles for workers’ rights, women’s rights, and civil rights during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and ending with the current protests against continued American imperialism, Zinn presents a radical new way of understanding America’s history. In so doing, he reminds readers that America’s true greatness is shaped by our dissident voices, not our military generals.

    A Young People’s History of the United States is also a companion volume to The People Speak, the film adapted from A People’s History of the United States and Voices of a People’s History of the United States.

    About A Young People’s History of the United States

    A Young People’s History of the United States brings to US history the viewpoints of workers, slaves, immigrants, women, Native Americans, and others whose stories, and their impact, are rarely included in books for young people. A Young People’s History of the United States is also a companion volume to The People Speak, the film adapted from A People’s History of the United States and Voices of a People’s History of the United States.
    Beginning with a look at Christopher Columbus’s arrival through the eyes of the Arawak Indians, then leading the reader through the struggles for workers’ rights, women’s rights, and civil rights during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and ending with the current protests against continued American imperialism, Zinn in the volumes of A Young People’s History of the United States presents a radical new way of understanding America’s history. In so doing, he reminds readers that America’s true greatness is shaped by our dissident voices, not our military generals.

    About A Young People’s History of the United States

    A Young People’s History of the United States brings to US history the viewpoints of workers, slaves, immigrants, women, Native Americans, and others whose stories, and their impact, are rarely included in books for young people. 

    Beginning with a look at Christopher Columbus’s arrival through the eyes of the Arawak Indians, then leading the reader through the struggles for workers’ rights, women’s rights, and civil rights during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and ending with the current protests against continued American imperialism, Zinn presents a radical new way of understanding America’s history. In so doing, he reminds readers that America’s true greatness is shaped by our dissident voices, not our military generals.

    A Young People’s History of the United States is also a companion volume to The People Speak, the film adapted from A People’s History of the United States and Voices of a People’s History of the United States.

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    Howard Zinn on History
    Howard Zinn on War
    Howard Zinn on Race
    The Zinn Reader
    See all books by Howard Zinn

    Also by Howard Zinn

    Voices of a People's History of the United States, 10th Anniversary Edition
    Howard Zinn on History
    Howard Zinn on War
    Howard Zinn on Race
    The Zinn Reader
    See all books by Howard Zinn

    Also by Howard Zinn

    Voices of a People's History of the United States, 10th Anniversary Edition
    Howard Zinn on History
    Howard Zinn on War
    Howard Zinn on Race
    The Zinn Reader
    See all books by Howard Zinn

    About Howard Zinn

    HOWARD ZINN’s (1922–2010) great subject isn’t war, but peace. After his experience as a bombardier in World War II, he became convinced that there could be no such thing as a “just war,” as the vast majority of modern warfare’s… More about Howard Zinn

    About Howard Zinn

    HOWARD ZINN’s (1922–2010) great subject isn’t war, but peace. After his experience as a bombardier in World War II, he became convinced that there could be no such thing as a “just war,” as the vast majority of modern warfare’s… More about Howard Zinn

    About Howard Zinn

    HOWARD ZINN’s (1922–2010) great subject isn’t war, but peace. After his experience as a bombardier in World War II, he became convinced that there could be no such thing as a “just war,” as the vast majority of modern warfare’s… More about Howard Zinn

    About Howard Zinn

    HOWARD ZINN’s (1922–2010) great subject isn’t war, but peace. After his experience as a bombardier in World War II, he became convinced that there could be no such thing as a “just war,” as the vast majority of modern warfare’s… More about Howard Zinn

    About Howard Zinn

    HOWARD ZINN’s (1922–2010) great subject isn’t war, but peace. After his experience as a bombardier in World War II, he became convinced that there could be no such thing as a “just war,” as the vast majority of modern warfare’s… More about Howard Zinn

    About Howard Zinn

    HOWARD ZINN’s (1922–2010) great subject isn’t war, but peace. After his experience as a bombardier in World War II, he became convinced that there could be no such thing as a “just war,” as the vast majority of modern warfare’s… More about Howard Zinn

    Product Details

    Category: Teen & Young Adult Nonfiction | Children’s Middle Grade Books

    Paperback | $22.95
    Published by Triangle Square
    Jun 02, 2009 | 464 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8 | Middle Grade (10 and up) | ISBN 9781583228692

    Category: Teen & Young Adult Nonfiction | Children’s Middle Grade Books

    Paperback | $23.95
    Published by Triangle Square
    Sep 06, 2022 | 480 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8 | Middle Grade (10 and up) | ISBN 9781644212516

    Category: Teen & Young Adult Nonfiction | Children’s Middle Grade Books

    Hardcover | $45.00
    Published by Triangle Square
    Jun 02, 2009 | 464 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8 | Middle Grade (10 and up) | ISBN 9781583228869

    Category: Teen & Young Adult Nonfiction | Children’s Middle Grade Books

    Hardcover | $45.00
    Published by Triangle Square
    Sep 06, 2022 | 480 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8 | Middle Grade (10 and up) | ISBN 9781644212509

    Category: Teen & Young Adult Nonfiction | Children’s Middle Grade Books

    Ebook | $13.99
    Published by Triangle Square
    Jan 04, 2011 | 464 Pages | Middle Grade (10 and up) | ISBN 9781583229453

    Category: Teen & Young Adult Nonfiction | Children’s Middle Grade Books

    Ebook | $15.99
    Published by Triangle Square
    Sep 06, 2022 | 480 Pages | Middle Grade (10 and up) | ISBN 9781644212523

    Praise

    “Zinn has written a brilliant and moving history of the American people from the point of view of those who have been exploited … the book is an excellent antidote to establishment history … While the book is precise enough to please specialists, it should satisfy any adult reader.” —Library Journal

    “In many years of searching, we have not found one history book we would recommend to them—until [the] just published A Young People’s History of the United States. This is the edition of A People’s History that we have all been waiting for.” —Deborah Menkart, executive director, Teaching for Change

    “Zinn’s work exemplifies an approach to history that is radical, regardless of its subject or geographical location. He tells us the untold story, the story of the world’s poor, the world’s workers, the world’s homeless, the world’s oppressed, the people who don’t really qualify as real people in official histories. Howard Zinn painstakingly unearths the details that the powerful seek to airbrush away. He brings official secrets and forgotten histories out into the light, and in doing so, changes the official narrative that the powerful have constructed for us. He strips the grinning mask off the myth of the benign American Empire. To not read Howard Zinn is to do a disservice to yourself.” —Arundhati Roy

    “[Zinn] gives a real insight into history that is often left out of textbooks. Highly recommended.” —Socialist Review

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