Howard Zinn

The Classic National Bestseller A People's History of the United States by eminent historian Howard Zinn offers an unflinching look at the American past from the perspective of the everyday people who lived through it. This groundbreaking work rejects the conventional narratives that often highlight the deeds of the elite, instead choosing to elevate the often overlooked experiences and struggles...

In Disobedience and Democracy, the inimitable leftist thinker Howard Zinn lays out a clear and dynamic case for civil disobedience and protest as legitimate vehicles for social change. Zinn challenges the dominant arguments against forms of protest that challenge the status quo. He solidifies his argument, exploring the politics of direct action, nonviolent civil disobedience, and strikes, while also offering...

Drawn from his New York Times bestseller A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn's The Other Civil War offers the historian and activist's view of the social and civil background of the American Civil War—a view that is rarely provided in standard historical texts. This set of essays recounts the history of American labour, free and not free,...