Author: howardzinn

This comprehensive history of the US focuses not on the wealthy and powerful and their grand designs but on the battles for justice waged by ordinary citizens. A classic New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist with over 76,000 five-star ratings on Goodreads.

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, Zinn’s 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 — its women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, working poor, and immigrant laborers. Here we learn…