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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 Peopleโs History of the United States.
Beginning with a look at Christopher Columbusโs arrival through the eyes of the Arawak Indians, then leading the reader through the struggles for workersโ rights, womenโs 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 Peopleโs History of the United States presents a radical new way of understanding Americaโs history. In so doing, he reminds readers that Americaโs true greatness is shaped by our dissident voices, not our military generals
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### Review โThis book has taught me more about our history than any Iโve read in years. *A Patriot's History of the United States* should be required reading for all Americans.โ --Glenn Beck A welcome, refreshing, and solid contribution to relearning what we have forgotten and remembering why t
Since its original landmark publication in 1980, *A People's History of the United States* has been chronicling American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version of history taught in schools -- with its emphasis on great men in high places -- to focus on the street, the home, an