from the book

A People's History of the United States

by Howard Zinn

publisher - Harper-Collins

Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress

The Empire and the People

War is the Health of the United States

Self-help in Hard times

A People's War ?

The Impossible Victory: Vietnam

The Seventies: Under Control ?

Carter-Reagan-Bush: The Bipartiasan Consensus

The Coming Revolt of the Guards

Arawak men and women, naked, tawny, and full of wonder, emerged from their villages onto the island's beaches and swam out to get a closer look at the strange big boat. When Columbus and his sailors came ashore, carrying swords, speaking oddly, the Arawaks ran to greet them, brought them food, water, gifts. He later wrote of this in his log:

"They.....

A black American writer, J. Saunders Redding, describes the arrival of a ship in North America in the year 1619:

Sails furled, flag drooping at her rounded stern, she rode the tide in from the sea. She was a strange ship, indeed, by all accounts, a frigh...