Voices of a people's history of the United States

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Howard Zinn: Voices of a people's history of the United States (2014)

696 pages

English language

Published Dec. 17, 2014

ISBN:
978-1-60980-592-0
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OCLC Number:
894183543

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Voices of a People's History of the United States (ISBN 978-1583229163) is an anthology edited by Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove. First released in 2004 by Seven Stories Press, Voices is the primary source companion to Zinn's A People's History of the United States. The book parallels A People's History in structure and is made up of various primary sources with short introductions to those sources. Seven Stories Press released an updated edition with a new chapter in November 2009.In the introduction, Zinn explains his motivation for the book:

I want to point out that people who seem to have no power, whether working people, people of color, or women—once they organize and protest and create movements—have a voice no government can suppress. Among the writings, speeches, poems, songs and other sources included in the book are selections by Chief Joseph, Frederick Douglass, Henry David Thoreau, John Brown, Mary Harris …

6 editions

Subjects

  • Sources
  • Biography
  • History

Places

  • United States