A Young People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn & Rebecca Stefoff

A Young People's History of the United States

By Howard Zinn & Rebecca Stefoff

  • Release Date: 2009-06-02
  • Genre: History for Kids
Score: 4
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From 38 Ratings

Description

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.

Reviews

  • Arawaks but what about the Tainos

    1
    By Petey615
    Crimes of omission and context. Does he show how Tainos were cannibals and savage to peaceful people?
  • Great addition to middle school history curriculum

    5
    By Guy1111
    My son loved this book and heartily read it in his own. He is not an "avid reader," so all the better. I think he appreciated the perspective this book offered.