A People's History of the United States - Paperback

Howard Zinn rewrites American history from the ground up, centering workers, women, Indigenous peoples, and the enslaved.

A People's History of the United States is not a textbook revision but a reframing. Zinn's landmark work reveals how ordinary people shaped the nation through resistance and struggle. If you learned American history as a sequence of great men and wars, this book is the correction.

Faculty assign this to undergraduates as a counter to the dominant narrative. It lives in the sociology section, the history section, and the American studies office all at once.