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A People's History of the United States

Howard Zinn

HistoryPolitics & Society
Publish date
1980
Publisher
Tandem Library
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Arawak men and women, naked, tawny, and full of wonder, emerged from their villages onto the island's beaches and swam out to get a closer look at the strange big boat.
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  2. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

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    Primary source extensively quoted to detail Spanish atrocities against the Arawak people.

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  4. American Negro Slave Revolts

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    Cited to explain how Virginia elites used racism to divide white and Black labor.

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  6. An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States

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    Pioneered the 'history from below' methodology that Zinn adopted for the American experience.

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    Cited to demonstrate widespread wildcat strikes and grassroots labor revolts across American history.

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  12. Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made

    Eugene D. Genovese

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    Informs the cultural resistance and autonomous community-building of enslaved African Americans.

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