Voices of a People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

In so doing, he reminds listeners that America's true greatness is shaped by our dissident voices, not our military generals. Lived o maize A Peoples History of the United States by Howard Zinn.

Presents a radical new way of understanding America's history. List Price 24. Voices of a People's History of the United States.īeginning 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 19th and 20th centuries, and ending with the current protests against continued American imperialism, Zinn in the volumes of Spanish explorer Hernando Cortés (14851547) strategically murdered the Aztecs of Mexico. Around the same time, Betty Freidan published the feminist classic The Feminine Mystique, in which she denounced the social system that forced women to surrender their dreams and serve their husbands and children. Returning to the 15th-century conquest of the Americas, Zinn describes how English and Spanish leaders conquered indigenous people in Mexico, Peru, and North America. A Young People's History of the United Statesīrings to US history the viewpoints of workers, slaves, immigrants, women, Native Americans, and others whose stories, and their impact, are rarely included in stories for young people. Women played a key role in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s. Historian Howard Zinns A Peoples History of the United States chronicles American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official narrative taught.

Voices of a People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn