Description
The New Press's Abridged Teaching Edition of A People's History of the United States has made Howard Zinn's original text available specifically for classroom use. With exercises and teaching materials to accompany each chapter, Volume I spans American Beginnings to Reconstruction.
Author: Howard Zinn, Kathy Emery
Publisher: New Press
Published: 08/01/2003
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.00w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781565847248
ISBN10: 1565847245
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | General
- Education | Teaching | Subjects | Arts & Humanities
- History | Social History
About the Author
Howard Zinn (1922-2010) was a historian, a playwright, and an activist. He wrote the classic A People's History of the United States and is a co-author (with Noam Chomsky, Ira Katznelson, R.C. Lewontin, David Montgomery, Laura Nader, Richard Ohmann, Ray Siever, and Immanuel Wallerstein) of The Cold War and the University: Toward an Intellectual History of the Postwar Years (The New Press). He received the Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction and the Eugene V. Debs Award for his writing and political activism.