A People’s History of the United States: Abridged Teaching Edition

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, this edition spans American Beginnings, Reconstruction, the Civil War and through to the present, with new chapters on the Clinton Presidency, the 2000 elections, and the “war on terrorism”. Howard Zinn received the Lannan Foundation Literary Award for Nonfiction and the Eugene V. Debs award for his writing and political activism.