A People's History of the United States

by Zinn, Howard

• ISBN13: 9781565848269
• ISBN10: 1565848268
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-07-01
• Publisher: Ingram Publisher Services, Inc.

Summary

This "brilliant and moving history of the American people" ("Library Journal") presents more than 500 years of American social and cultural history, going well beyond the wars and presidencies contained in traditional texts to tell the stories of working men and women. Abridged for use in the classroom.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	xi
1. Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress	3	(20)
2. Drawing the Color Line	23	(10)
3. Persons of Mean and Vile Condition	33	(14)
4. Tyranny Is Tyranny	47	(14)
5. A Kind of Revolution	61	(20)
6. The Intimately Oppressed	81	(16)
7. As Long as Grass Grows or Water Runs	97	(16)
8. We Take Nothing by Conquest, Thank God	113	(16)
9. Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom	129	(32)
10. The Other Civil War	161	(26)
11. Robber Barons and Rebels	187	(32)
12. The Empire and the People	219	(16)
13. The Socialist Challenge	235	(28)
14. War Is the Health of the State	263	(14)
15. Self-help in Hard Times	277	(22)
16. A People's War?	299	(28)
17. "Or Does It Explode?"	327	(20)
18. The Impossible Victory; Vietnam	347	(26)
19. Surprises	373	(24)
20. The Seventies: Under Control?	397	(16)
21. Carter-Reagan-Bush: The Bipartisan Consensus	413	(30)
22. The Unreported Resistance	443	(26)
23. The Coming Revolt of the Guards	469	(12)
24. The Clinton Presidency	481	(34)
25. The 2000 Election and the "War on Terrorism"	515	(10)
Afterword	525	(6)
Appendices	531	(36)
Bibliography	567	(28)
Index	595