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1) Howard Zinn
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
We mourn the loss of author, activist, historian and beloved folk hero Howard Zinn, who has been an integral part of the First Run legacy for many years. Howard lent his support to many first run films (many of which he appeared in), the most recent being the Oscar-nominated The most dangerous man in america: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon papers. Howard hid copies of the Pentagon papers for Ellsberg, and he later served as an expert witness for...
Publisher
Under the Milky Way
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
With the tremendous success of his book, A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn radically changed the way Americans see themselves. His friend Noam Chomsky says that Zinn litteraly transformed a generation's conscience. Zinn talks about those who have no voice in the official History : Slaves, Indians, deserters, textile workers, union men.Between 1900 and 1920, more than 14 million immigrants arrived in the United States. They came...
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Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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A Young People's History of the United States brings to US history the viewpoints of workers, enslaved people, immigrants, women, Black people, Latino Americans, Asian Americans, American Indians, and others whose stories, and their impact, are rarely included in books for young people.
Beginning with a look at Christopher Columbus’s arrival through the eyes of the Arawak Indians, then leading the reader through the...
Beginning with a look at Christopher Columbus’s arrival through the eyes of the Arawak Indians, then leading the reader through the...
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English
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"With a new introduction by Anthony Arnove, this edition of the classic national bestseller chronicles American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official narrative taught in schools--with its emphasis on great men in high places-- to focus on the street, the home, and the workplace. Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the United States is the only volume to tell America's story from...
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Language
English
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"Beginning with a look at Christopher Columbus's arrival through the eyes of the Arawak Indians, then leading the reader through the struggles for workers' rights, women's rights, and civil rights during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and ending with the current protests against continued American imperialism, Zinn presents a radical new way of understanding America's history. In so doing, he reminds readers that America's true greatness...
11) The people speak
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A look at social change throughout history, as seen through the music, poetry, speeches, and manifestos of rebels, dissenters, and visionaries from our past - and present - including Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, Bob Dylan, Langston Hughes, Chief Joseph, Muhammad Ali, along with unknown veterans, union workers, abolitionists, and many others never featured in high school textbooks. Celebrates the extraordinary possibilities for creating social...
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Publisher
Ulysses Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Learn the American history they don't teach in school—like colonial zombie massacres and undead Civil War heroes—in this horrifying and hilarious volume.
"Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane."
—Howard Zinn Shedding light on 500 years of suppression, this shocking exposé reveals the pivotal role in American history played by its most invisible minority—zombies....
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Language
English
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In this sweeping history, Jennifer Michael Hecht celebrates doubt as an engine of creativity and as an alternative to the political and intellectual dangers of certainty -- Just as belief has its own history featuring people whose unique expressions of faith have forever changed the world, doubt has a vibrant story and tradition with its own saints martyrs, and sages.
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Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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At last! The long-awaited graphic version of the multi-million copy bestselling corrective to American history myths—adapted by the famed National Book Award–winning artist behind John Lewis's March trilogy
Named one of the Best Art Books of the Year by Hyperallergic
Winner of The Society of Midland Authors "Children's Reading Round Table Award" for Children's Nonfiction
Named one of the Best Art Books of the Year by Hyperallergic
Winner of The Society of Midland Authors "Children's Reading Round Table Award" for Children's Nonfiction
Since its first publication in the 1990s,
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Publisher
Akashic Books, Ltd
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
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Cooper & Mansbach team with some of today's most talented writers to vitalize American history.
"This is a 'people's history' with tongue in cheek: delightfully funny, imaginative, but with a subtle undertone of seriousness. I enjoyed it immensely." —Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States
History is distorted the moment it's recorded—and in these politically
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Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Now adapted for young readers ages 12 through 18, the national bestseller that makes real American history come alive in all of its conflict, drama, and complexity Lies My Teacher Told Me is one of the most important-and successful-history books of our time. Having sold nearly two million copies, the book won an American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship. Now Rebecca Stefoff, the acclaimed nonfiction...
18) America 51: a probe into the realities that are hiding inside "the greatest country in the world"
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Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A skewering of the American underbelly by the New York Times bestselling author of Seven Deadly Sins , A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Heaven , and You're Making Me Hate You The always-outspoken hard rock vocalist Corey Taylor begins America 51 with a reflection on what his itinerant youth and frequent worldwide travels with his multiplatinum bands Slipknot and Stone Sour have taught him about what it means to be an American in an increasingly...
19) Lies My Teacher Told Me: Young Readers' Edition: Everything American History Textbooks Get Wrong
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Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Now adapted for young readers ages 12 through 18, the national bestseller that makes real American history come alive in all of its conflict, drama, and complexity
Lies My Teacher Told Me is one of the most important—and successful—history books of our time. Having sold nearly two million copies, the book won an American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship. Now Rebecca Stefoff,
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Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
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"This powerful and unflinching examination of racism in America by award-winning historian Ann Bausum deconstructs the warped history of the Civil War for teen readers, perfect for fans of STAMPED and JUST MERCY"-- Provided by publisher.



