A Young People's History of the United States brings to US history
the viewpoints of workers, enslaved people, immigrants, women, Black
people, Latino Americans, Asian Americans, American Indians, and others
whose stories, and their impact, are rarely included in books for young
people.
Beginning with a look at Christopher Columbus's arrival through the eyes
of the Arawak Indians, then leading the reader through the struggles for
workers' rights, women's rights, and civil rights during the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries, and ending with the current protests against
continued American imperialism, Zinn presents a radical new way of
understanding America's history. In so doing, he reminds readers that
America's true greatness is shaped by our dissident voices, not our
military generals.
A Young People's History of the United States is also a companion
volume to The People Speak, the film adapted from A People's History
of the United States and Voices of a People's History of the United
States.