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A People's History Of The United States - Howard Zinn

Submitted by Steven. on Sep 6 2006
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Howard Zinn's superb history of the US, spanning over 500 years from Columbus's "discovery" of America in 1492 to the Clinton presidency in 1996.

This extensive work is available online thanks to History Is A Weapon, who OCRed the text, though we heartily recommend our readers to buy a hard copy. libcom.org have made a small number of minor corrections.

  • 1. Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress
  • 2. Drawing the Color Line
  • 3. Persons of Mean and Vile Condition
  • 4. Tyranny is Tyranny
  • 5. A kind of Revolution
  • 6. The Intimately Oppressed
  • 7. As Long As Grass Grows Or Water Runs
  • 8. We Take Nothing by Conquest, Thank God
  • 9. Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom
  • 10. The Other Civil War
  • 11. Robber Barons And Rebels
  • 12. The Empire and the People
  • 13. The Socialist Challenge
  • 14. War Is the Health of the State
  • 15. Self-help in Hard Times
  • 16. A People's War?
  • 17. "Or Does It Explode?"
  • 18. The Impossible Victory: Vietnam
  • 19. Surprises
  • 20. The Seventies: Under Control?
  • 21. Carter-Reagan-Bush: The Bipartisan Consensus
  • 22. The Unreported Resistance
  • 23. The Clinton Presidency and the Crisis of Democracy
  • 24. The Coming Revolt of the Guards
  • Notes by History Is A Weapon
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A People's History Of The United States - Howard Zinn

  • 1. Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress
  • 2. Drawing the Color Line
  • 3. Persons of Mean and Vile Condition
  • 4. Tyranny is Tyranny
  • 5. A kind of Revolution
  • 6. The Intimately Oppressed
  • 7. As Long As Grass Grows Or Water Runs
  • 8. We Take Nothing by Conquest, Thank God
  • 9. Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom
  • 10. The Other Civil War
  • 11. Robber Barons And Rebels
  • 12. The Empire and the People
  • 13. The Socialist Challenge
  • 14. War Is the Health of the State
  • 15. Self-help in Hard Times
  • 16. A People's War?
  • 17. "Or Does It Explode?"
  • 18. The Impossible Victory: Vietnam
  • 19. Surprises
  • 20. The Seventies: Under Control?
  • 21. Carter-Reagan-Bush: The Bipartisan Consensus
  • 22. The Unreported Resistance
  • 23. The Clinton Presidency and the Crisis of Democracy
  • 24. The Coming Revolt of the Guards
  • Notes by History Is A Weapon

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