A People's History of the United States: American Beginnings to Reconstruction
Howard Zinn Kathy Emery
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  • Title: A People's History of the United States: American Beginnings to Reconstruction
  • Author: Howard Zinn Kathy Emery
  • ISBN: 9781565847248
  • Page: 453
  • Format: Paperback

    • Volume I of the abridged teaching edition of the bestselling history of the United States Includes teaching materials to accompany each chapter.
    Howard Zinn Kathy Emery
    Howard Zinn was a historian, playwright, and social activist He was a shipyard worker and a bombardier with the U.S Army Air Force in Europe during the Second World War before he went to college under the GI Bill and received his Ph.D from Columbia University Zinn taught at Spelman College and Boston University, and was a visiting professor at the University of Paris and the University of Bologna He received the Thomas Merton Award, the Eugene V Debs Award, the Upton Sinclair Award, and the Lannan Literary Award He lived in Auburndale, Massachusetts.


    Commentaires:

    Daniel
    This is both an important and dangerous book. In his defense, Zinn never purports to be writing a balanced history. In the first chapter, he couches his efforts as a response to other earlier methodologies, in particular Kissinger's disheartening assertion that "history is the memory of states." Zinn's book, in contrast, is history as the memory of the oppressed; it is still part of "that inevitable taking of sides which comes from selection and emphasis in history," but it gives the body of Ame [...]
    MJ
    A telling of our country's history from the perspectives of ordinary people: Native Americans, slaves, women, workersvoices not usually heard. Blows many of our "historical myths" out of the water. A very powerful book.
    Heather Graber
    Not a huge history buff But great book.
    Flora maccoll
    a must read. should be required reading by anyone who graduates from high school.
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