A Young People’s History of the United States brings to U.S. 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 textbooks.
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 U.S. imperialism. [Publisher’s description.]
ISBN: 9781644212509 | Seven Stories Press
Table of Contents
A Note on this Edition
Introduction
Introduction by Ed Morales: A New Narrative
Part One
Columbus and American Indians
Black and White
Who Were the Colonists?
Tyranny is Tyranny
Revolutions
The Women of Early America
As Long as Grass Grows or Water Runs
War with Mexico
Slavery and Emancipation
The Other Civil War
Robber Barons and Rebels
The American Empire
Part Two
Class Struggle
World War I
World War II and the Cold War
Black Revolt and Civil Rights
Vietnam
Surprises
The Latino Emergence
Under Control?
Politics as Usual
Resistance
The End of the Twentieth Century
The “War on Terrorism”
War in Iraq, Conflict at Home
Our Voices Need to Be Heard
Conclusion: “Rise Like Lions”