Description |
665 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents |
Ch. 1. Columbus and Las Casas -- Ch. 2. The first slaves -- Ch. 3. Servitude and rebellion -- Ch. 4. Preparing the revolution -- Ch. 5. Half a revolution -- Ch. 6. The early women's movement -- Ch. 7. Indian removal -- Ch. 8. The war on Mexico -- Ch. 9. Slavery and defiance -- Ch. 10. Civil war and class conflict -- Ch. 11. Strikers and populists in the gilded age -- Ch. 12. The expansion of the empire -- Ch. 13. Socialists and wobblies -- Ch. 14. Protesting the First World War -- Ch. 15. From the Jazz Age to the uprisings of the 1930s -- Ch. 16. World War II and McCarthyism -- Ch. 17. The black upsurge against racial segregation -- Ch. 18. Vietnam and beyond : the historic resistance -- Ch. 19. Women, gays, and other voices of resistance -- Ch. 20. Losing control in the 1970s -- Ch. 21. The Carter-Reagan-Bush consensus -- Ch. 22. Panama, the 1991 Gulf War, and the war at home -- Ch. 23. Challenging Bill Clinton -- Ch. 24. Bush II and the "war on terror" |
Summary |
"For Voices, Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove have selected testimonies to living history - speeches, letters, poems, songs - by the people who make history happen but are underrepresented or misrepresented in history books: women, Native Americans, workers, and people of color."--BOOK JACKET |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
SUBJECT |
United States -- History -- Sources. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140327
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United States -- Biography.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139912
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Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Author |
Arnove, Anthony, 1969-
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LC no. |
2004018173 |
ISBN |
1583226478 (hbk.) |
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1583226281 (paperback) |
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