A People's History of the United States - Volume II: The Civil War to the Present

howard zinn kathy emery ellen gordon reeves

An abridged classroom edition of Howard Zinn's bestselling history of the United States, with teaching materials to accompany each chapter.

Like Volume I, each chapter in Volume II provides exercises and teaching materials that allow students to begin a critical inquiry into the American past. Volume II covers the Civil War through the present, with new chapters on the Clinton Presidency, the 2000 elections, and the "war on terrorism."

Genres nonfictionhistory

496 pages, Paperback

First published September 1,2003

This edition

Format: 496 pages, Paperback
Published: August 1, 2003 by The New Press
ISBN: 9781565847255
ASIN: 1565847253
Language: English

About the author

howard zinn

Howard Zinn was an American historian, playwright, philosopher, socialist intellectual and World War II veteran. He was chair of the history and social sciences department at Spelman College, and a political science professor at Boston University. Zinn wrote more than 20 books, including his best-selling and influential A People's History of the United States in 1980. In 2007, he published a version of it for younger readers, A Young People's History of the United States.
Zinn described himself as "something of an anarchist, something of a socialist. Maybe a democratic socialist." He wrote extensively about the civil rights movement, the anti-war movement and labor history of the United States. His memoir, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train (Beacon Press, 1994), was also the title of a 2004 documentary about Zinn's life and work. Zinn died of a heart attack in 2010, at the age of 87.