Voices of a People's History of the United States, 10th Anniversary Edition

The living history of the American people is a history of ongoing struggle. It is told here, in speeches, letters, poems, and songs, by the people who make history happen but are often left out of the history books: women, workers, nonwhites, those whose power rests with popular movements. These texts were chosen and arranged by Howard Zinn and feature Zinn's introductions to the original texts. New voices featured in this 10th Anniversary Edition include Chelsea Manning, speaking after being sentenced to thirty-five years; Naomi Klein, addressing the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Liberty Square; a member of Dream Defenders, a youth organization that confronts systemic racial inequality; members of the Undocumented Youth movement, who occupied, marched, and demonstrated in support of the DREAM Act; a member of the Day Laborers movement; Chicago Teachers Union strikers; and several critics of the Obama administration, including Glenn Greenwald, on governmental secrecy. History,politics,slavery,servitude,rebellion,revolutionary war,women's rights,indian removal,native americans,war on mexico,abolition,civil war,class warfare,labor strikes,gilded age,industrial revolution,manifest destiny,socialism,first world war,WWI,WWII,protest,Jazz Age,Mccarthyism,black surge,racial segregation,vietnam war,antiwar,LGBT,political prisoners,carter-reagan-bush,panama,gulf war,bill clinton,george w. bush,barack obama,war on terror,terrorism,whistleblower,independent media,occupy wall street Selected testimonies to living history—speeches, letters, poems, songs—offered by the people who make history happen, but are often left out of history books: women, workers, nonwhites. Featuring introductions to the original texts by Howard Zinn. New voices featured in this 10th Anniversary Edition include Chelsea Manning, speaking after her 35-year prison sentence); Naomi Klein, speaking from the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Liberty Square; a member of Dream Defenders, a youth organization that confronts systemic racial inequality; members of the Undocumented Youth movement, who occupied, marched, and demonstrated in support of the DREAM Act; a member of the Day Laborers movement; Chicago Teachers Union strikers; and several critics of the Obama administration, including Glenn Greenwald, on governmental secrecy. A collection of speeches, letters, poems, and songs that reflect key political events in United States history, including documents on slave revolts, presidential speeches, writings both for and against various military conflicts, and speeches supporting equal rights for gay and lesbian families The 10th Anniversary Edition of a top-selling Zinn with new material.Selected testimonies to living history-speeches, letters, poems, songs-left by the people who make history happen but are often left out of history books-women, workers, nonwhites. Introductions to the original texts by Zinn