Voices of a People's History of the United States, 10th Anniversary Edition

Here in their own words are Frederick Douglass, George Jackson, Chief Joseph, Martin Luther King Jr, Plough Jogger, Sacco Vanzetti, Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Mark Twain Malcolm X, to name just a few of the hundreds appearing in Voices of a People’s History of the United States , edited by Howard Zinn Anthony Arnove. Paralleling the 24 chapters of Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States , Voices of a People’s History is the long-awaited companion volume to the national bestseller.

For Voices , Zinn Arnove have selected testimonies to living history—speeches, letters, poems, songs—left by the people who make history happen, but who usually are underrepresented or misrepresented in history books: women, Native Americans, workers, blacks Latinos. Zinn has written short introductions to the texts, which themselves range in length from letters or poems of less than a page to entire speeches essays that run several pages longer. Voices of a People’s History is a symphony of our nation’s original voices, rich in ideas actions, an embodiment of the power of civil disobedience dissent, wherein lies our nation’s true spirit of defiance resilience.

Beloved historian activist Howard Zinn is the author of the best-selling A People’s History of the United States many other books, including The Zinn Reader (Seven Stories Press 2000), Artists in the Time of War (Seven Stories, 2003) Terrorism War (Seven Stories 2002).

Anthony Arnove is editor of Terrorism War by Howard Zinn Iraq Under Siege. An activist contributor to ZNet, his work appears in The Nation , The Financial Times Mother Jones. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.