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A Young People's History of the United States

by Howard Zinn

A history told through overlooked perspectives

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A history told through overlooked perspectives

Howard Zinn’s account reframes U.S. history around the experiences and influence of people often left out of young readers’ histories, including workers, enslaved people, immigrants, women, and Native Americans. It opens with Christopher Columbus’s arrival as seen by the Arawak, then traces struggles for workers’ rights, women’s rights, and civil rights across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book also connects that historical survey to protests against American imperialism. Its organizing idea is that dissenting voices, rather than military leaders, are central to understanding the country’s history.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Young readers interested in U.S. history from perspectives often omitted in conventional accounts.
  • Readers exploring labor, women’s, and civil rights movements.
  • Those interested in how protest and dissent figure in American history.

Themes

Historical perspective and exclusionWorkers’ rightsWomen’s rightsCivil rightsProtest and dissent

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Book overview

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.
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