A People's History of the United States - (New Press People's History) Abridged by Howard Zinn & Kathy Emery (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

The New Press's Abridged Teaching Edition of A People's History of the United States has made Howard Zinn's original text available specifically for classroom use. With exercises and teaching materials to accompany each chapter, Volume I spans American Beginnings to Reconstruction.

About the Author

Howard Zinn (1922-2010) was a historian, a playwright, and an activist. He wrote the classic A People's History of the United States and is a co-author (with Noam Chomsky, Ira Katznelson, R.C. Lewontin, David Montgomery, Laura Nader, Richard Ohmann, Ray Siever, and Immanuel Wallerstein) of The Cold War and the University: Toward an Intellectual History of the Postwar Years (The New Press). He received the Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction and the Eugene V. Debs Award for his writing and political activism.