In his introduction, editor Victor LaValle writes about how this book derives from the project of its namesake, Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States — the story of this place ...

Decades before we thought in such terms, Zinn provided a history for the 99 percent. Many teachers view A People’s History as an ... the Supreme Court of the United States has ruled that ...

and Republicans in states like Indiana and Arkansas have repeatedly tried to ban the book in schools. Understandably, the Left has rallied around A People’s History and the book continues to be ...

Here’s how book banning emerged in the United States ... the enslavement of people, alarmed would-be censors in the South. By the 1850s, multiple states had outlawed expressing anti-slavery ...

Zinn’s book offered for many a stunning contrast ... I have already read most of A People’s History of the United States, and I don’t hate America. I just understand the history of our ...

Yet Zinn’s book, perhaps the most successful single-volume history of the United ... By 1940, about 19 million people lived in the United States’ colonies, meaning that one-eighth of the ...

Like the work that was Zirin’s inspiration—Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States: 1492-Present the book takes gleeful pleasure in puncturing popular myths; in an interview ...

When, how and by whose pens and voices over the course of the 19th century did the United States attain its dominant ... enslave and liberate people. This book will help readers grasp the staying ...