A People's History of the United States

From the decks of Columbus’s Santa María scraping Bahamian reefs to the drumbeat marches of Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge, Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States surges like a river of restless voices—factory girls in Lowell threading looms for Gender Equality, Cherokee families on the Trail of Tears demanding Indigenous Rights, Pullman rail strikers clanging for Economic Justice, and Sojourner Truth thundering “Ain’t I a woman?” before stunned crowds. Zinn steers us through Boston shipyards where sailors mutinied for fair pay, into Harlem rent parties that bankrolled Racial Justice, and onto Flint picket lines where sit-down workers forged the eight-hour day. His prose slices myth like lightning across a storm cloud, showing that every gain—child-labor bans, health safeguards, universal suffrage—rose from street-corner courage, not marble proclamations. Yet one electric question crackles after the final page: which unheralded hands will light the next fuse for freedom? Tap the blue ➕ to Save to List for later inspiration, or hit the bold arrow to Learn More and connect your classroom, youth group, or congregation to the untamed chorus still writing America’s story.