[Studyguide for a People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Zinn, ISBN 9780060528379] (By: Zinn) [published: September, 2007]

With A New Introduction By Anthony Arnove, This Edition Of The Classic National Bestseller Chronicles American History From The Bottom Up, Throwing Out The Official Narrative 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, 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--america's Women, Factory Workers, African-americans, Native Americans, The Working Poor, And Immigrant Laborers. As Historian Howard Zinn Shows, Many Of Our Country's Greatest Battles--the Fights For A Fair Wage, An Eight-hour Workday, Child-labor Laws, Health And Safety Standards, Universal Suffrage, Women's Rights, Racial Equality--were Carried Out At The Grassroots Level, Against Bloody Resistance. Covering Christopher Columbus's Arrival Through President Clinton's First Term, A People's History Of The United States, Which Was Nominated For The American Book Award In 1981, Features Insightful Analysis Of The Most Important Events In Our History.-- Columbus, The Indians, And Human Progress -- Drawing The Color Line -- Persons Of Mean And Vile Condition -- Tyranny Is Tyranny -- A Kind Of Revolution -- The Intimately Oppressed -- As Long As Grass Grows Or Water Runs -- We Take Nothing By Conquest, Thank God -- Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom -- The Other Civil War -- Robber Barons And Rebels -- The Empire And The People -- The Socialist Challenge -- War Is The Health Of The State -- Self-help In Hard Times -- A People's War? -- Or Does It Explode? -- The Impossible Victory: Vietnam -- Surprises -- The Seventies: Under Control? -- Carter-reagan-bush: The Bipartisan Consensus -- The Unreported Resistance -- The Clinton Presidency -- The Coming Revolt Of The Guards -- The 2000 Election And The War On Terrorism -- Afterword. Howard Zinn ; Introduction By Anthony Arnove. Edition Statement Taken From The Introduction, Page Xiii. Includes An Afterword From The Author And P.s.: Insights, Interviews & More (author Interview And Book Discussion, An Excerpt From Original Zinn: Conversations With David Barsamian, And Recommended Reading). A Previous Edition Of This Book Was Published In Hardcover In 1999 As The Twentieth Anniversary Edition By Harpercollinspublishers.--title Page Verso. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 689-708) And Index. Overview: Known For Its Lively, Clear Prose As Well As Its Scholarly Research. 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 -- America's Women. Factory Workers. African Americans. Native Americans, Working Poor, And Immigrant Laborers. Revised And Updated With Two New Chapters Covering Clinton's Presidency, The 2000 Election, And The War On Terrorism. A People's History Of The United States Features Insightful Analysis Of The Most Important Events In Our History. Open-minded Readers Will Prophet From Professor Zinn's Account, And Historians May View It As A Step Toward A Coherent New Version Of American History. Columbus, The Indians, And Human Progress -- Drawing The Color Line -- Persons Of Mean And Vile Condition -- Tyranny Is Tyranny -- Kind Of Revolution -- Intimately Oppressed -- As Long As Grass Grows Or Water Runs -- We Take Nothing By Conquest, Thank God -- Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom -- Other Civil War -- Robber Barons And Rebels -- Empire And The People -- Socialist Challenge -- War Is The Health Of The State -- Self-help In Hard Times -- People's War? -- Or Does It Explode? -- Impossible Victory: Vietnam -- Surprises -- Seventies: Under Control? -- Carter-reagan-bush: The Bipartisan Consensus -- Unreported Resistance -- Coming Revolt Of The Guards -- Clinton Presidency -- 2000 Election And The War On Terrorism -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index. Howard Zinn. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [689]-708) And Index. Consistently lauded for its lively, readable prose, this revised and updated edition of A People's History of the United States turns traditional textbook history on its head. Howard Zinn infuses the often-submerged voices of blacks, women, American Indians, war resisters, and poor laborers of all nationalities into this thorough narrative that spans American history from Christopher Columbus's arrival to an afterword on the Clinton presidency. Addressing his trademark reversals of perspective, Zinn--a teacher, historian, and social activist for more than 20 years--explains, "My point is not that we must, in telling history, accuse, judge, condemn Columbus in absentia. It is too late for that; it would be a useless scholarly exercise in morality. But the easy acceptance of atrocities as a deplorable but necessary price to pay for progress (Hiroshima and Vietnam, to save Western civilization; Kronstadt and Hungary, to save socialism; nuclear proliferation, to save us all)--that is still with us. One reason these atrocities are still with us is that we have learned to bury them in a mass of other facts, as radioactive wastes are buried in containers in the earth." If your last experience of American history was brought to you by junior high school textbooks--or even if you're a specialist--get ready for the other side of stories you may not even have heard. With its vivid descriptions of rarely noted events, A People's History of the United States is required reading for anyone who wants to take a fresh look at the rich, rocky history of America THE CLASSIC NATIONAL BESTSELLER'A wonderful, splendid book—a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future.'–Howard FastHistorian Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States chronicles American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official narrative 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, it is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of—and in the words of—America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, the working poor, and immigrant laborers. As Zinn shows, many of our country's greatest battles—the fights for a fair wage, an eight-hour workday, child-labor laws, health and safety standards, universal suffrage, women's rights, racial equality—were carried out at the grassroots level, against bloody resistance. Covering Christopher Columbus's arrival through President Clinton's first term, A People's History of the United States features insightful analysis of the most important events in our history. This edition also includes an introduction by Anthony Arnove, who wrote, directed, and produced The People Speak with Zinn and who coauthored, with Zinn, Voices of a People's History of the United States. 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, and the, workplace. Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of -- and in the words of -- America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, the working poor, and immigrant laborers. As historian Howard Zinn shows, many of our country's greatest battles -- the fights for a fair wage, an eight-hour workday, child-labor laws, health and safety standards, universal suffrage, women's rights, racial equality -- were carried out at the grassroots level, against bloody resistance. Covering Christopher Columbus's arrival through President Clinton's first term, A People's History of the United States, which was nominated for the American Book Award in 1981, features insightful analysis of the most important events in our history. Revised, updated, and featuring a new after, word by the author, this special twentieth anniversary edition continues Zinn's important contribution to a complete and balanced understanding of American history 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, and the, workplace. Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, 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-America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, the working poor, and immigrant laborers. As historian Howard Zinn shows, many of our country's greatest battles-the fights for a fair wage, an eight-hour workday, child-labor laws, health and safety standards, universal suffrage, women's rights, racial equality-were carried out at the grassroots level, against bloody resistance. Covering Christopher Columbus's arrival through President Clinton's first term, A People's History of the United States, which was nominated for the American Book Award in 1981, features insightful analysis of the most important events in our history Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress -- Drawing the Color Line -- Persons of Mean and Vile Condition -- Tyranny Is Tyranny -- A Kind of Revolution -- The Intimately Oppressed -- As Long as Grass Grows or Water Runs -- We Take Nothing by Conquest, Thank God -- Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom -- The Other Civil War -- Robber Barons and Rebels -- The Empire and the People -- The Socialist Challenge -- War Is the Health of the State -- Self-help in Hard Times -- A People's War? -- "Or Does It Explode?" -- The Impossible Victory: Vietnam -- Surprises -- The Seventies: Under Control? -- Carter-Reagan-Bush: The Bipartisan Consensus -- The Unreported Resistance -- The Coming Revolt of the Guards -- The Clinton Presidency -- The 2000 Election and the "War on Terrorism" -- Afterword. In the book, Zinn presented a different side of history from the more traditional "fundamental nationalist glorification of country". Zinn portrays a side of American history that can largely be seen as the exploitation and manipulation of the majority by rigged systems that hugely favor a small aggregate of elite rulers from across the orthodox political parties. A People's History has been assigned as reading in many high schools and colleges across the United States. It has also resulted in a change in the focus of historical work, which now includes stories that previously were ignored Library Journal calls Howard Zinns book a brilliant and moving history of the American people from the point of view of thosewhose plight has been largely omitted from most histories. Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress Drawing the Color Line Persons of Mean and Vile Condition Tyranny is Tyranny A Kind of Revolution The Intimately Oppressed As Long as Grass Grows or Water Runs We Take Nothing by Conquest, Thank God Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom The Other Civil War Robber Barons and Rebels The Empire and the People The Socialist Challenge War Is the Health of the State Self-help in Hard Times A People's War? "Or Does It Explode?" The Impossible Victory: Vietnam Surprises The Seventies: Under Control? Carter-Reagan-Bush: The Bipartisan Consensus The Unreported Resistance The Coming Revolt of the Guards The Clinton Presidency The 2000 Election and "The War on Terrorism" Afterword Bibliography Index Arawak men and women, naked, tawny, and full of wonder, emerged from their villages onto the island's beaches and swam out to get a closer look at the strange big boat. Chronicles United States history from a grassroots perspective and provides an analysis of important events from 1492 through the current war on terrorism