The New Press - "A People’s History of the United States" by Howard Zinn, George Kirschner

A People's History of the United States
By Howard Zinn
A People’s History of the United States
By Howard Zinn
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By Noam Chomsky, Ira Katznelson, R.C. Lewontin, David Montgomery, Laura Nader, Richard Ohmann, Ray Siever, Immanuel Wallerstein, Howard Zinn

Those accustomed to the texts of an earlier generation, in which the rise of American democracy and the growth of national power were the embodiments of progress, may be startled by Professor Zinn’s narrative. From the opening pages . . . there is a reversal of perspective, a reshuffling of heroes and villains. The book bears the same relation to traditional texts as a photographic negative does to print: the areas of darkness and light have been reversed.
—ERIC FONER, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

A People’s History of the United States

The Wall Charts

Howard Zinn and George Kirschner

A New Press People's History

pb/poster

$25.00 / £15.99

PAPERBACK/POSTERS Zinn’s classic work in its most innovative format, the long out-of-print myth-busting posters

[A] brilliant and moving history of the American people from the point of view of those who have been exploited politically and economically and whose plight has been largely omitted from most histories.
—LIBRARY JOURNAL

Few works of American history have done more to change the way in which recent generations have looked at their past than Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States. With millions of copies sold, Zinn’s social history fleshes out the bare skeleton of traditional historical texts with the stories of working men and women throughout this country’s history.

A People’s History of the United States: The Wall Charts is a set of two posters and an explanatory booklet designed to bring the contents of the original People’s History to an even broader audience. Illustrated in full color, they portray over five hundred years of American social and cultural history. Organized thematically as well as chronologically, they allow the reader to trace the developments of specific topics—from slavery and resistance to the role of women—through images and quotations that go well beyond the wars and presidencies of traditional American history.

A People’s History of the United States: The Wall Charts creates a unique tool for learning about American history from the celebrated book that turned history on its head.

Howard Zinn is professor emeritus at Boston University. He is the author of numerous books including A People’s History of the United States, the award-winning Declarations of Independence, and Failure to Quit, as well as the recent memoir You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train and the play Marx in Soho. After a career as a construction worker and brewer, George Kirschner began teaching high school history at the age of fifty, using A People’s History. He lives in New Jersey.

Category: American History / Education
Pub Date: Fall 2007
Format: pb/poster
Trim: 9 1/2 x 14, 48 pages
ISBN: 978-1-56584-171-0

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978-1-56584-171-0 (pb/poster, Fall 1995)

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