A People’s History of the United States
by Howard Zinn
The underdogs get the mic.
For you if
you learned american history in school and have a nagging feeling you were only given part of the story
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Zinn flips the script on American history, telling it from the ground up — from the enslaved, the workers, the women, and the dreamers history tried to erase. It’s not a comfortable read, and that’s the point. This is history as rebellion: unfiltered, unsanitized, and alive with the voices that built the nation but were never invited to narrate it.
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