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A People's History of the United States Lesson Plan

Relationship to Other Books

Throughout, Zinn quotes many different major revisionist historians, the most important being W.E.B. Du Bois (and his seminal text, Black Reconstruction in America: 1860 to 1880) and Eric Foner. Other works that offer similar kinds of histories are Eduardo Galeano's Open Veins in Latin America, E.P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class, Walter Rodney's How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, William A. Pelz's A People's History of Modern Europe, Erik Loomis's A History of America in Ten Strikes, Babara Ransby's Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision, Ken Blansett's A Journey to Freedom: Richard Oakes, Alcatraz, and the Red Power Movement, as well...

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