A list from Katie Couric Media, “ 10 American History Books Every Citizen Should Read ” (26 June 2023) caught my attention when it was share...

When I began Patriots and Peoples , I had a clear notion to read and reread two books. Neither A People's History of the United States ...

No significant conclusions are possible in the study of foreign affairs—the study of states acting as units—without an awareness of the his...

The Columbian Exchange (1972) by Alfred W. Crosby is among a small number of texts with which every American historian has some familiari...

Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States has few peers among contemporary historical works. With more than 2 million c...

Today is Howard Zinn's birthday. Were he still alive, he would be 90. Here is a tribute from Democracy Now!

During his first term as President, Jefferson spent seventy-five hundred dollars—roughly a hundred and twenty thousand dollars in today’s ...

On this day in 1886, thousands of people gathered for a protest rally at Haymarket Square in Chicago. The previous day, police had fired int...

In Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States (1999 [1980]), we read: On their own, the Indians were engaged in the great a...

During an argument on Facebook concerning observations of racism in the Tea Party movement, a putative historian opined: Maybe you got you...

This message came in an email titled "New from an author you love." Since you've bought something by Larry Schweikart in the...

In the opening chapter of A People's History of the United States (1980), Howard Zinn explains his bias. His history examines case st...

I remember Woodstock. These memories filter through intervening scenes, perspectives, and mentalités . I'm more a child of the Seventi...

It is with a sense of triumph that I look back on my first year of graduate school and a declaration I made then. I resolved to war against ...

John McCain's Concession Speech In his warm and honorable concession speech, Presidential candidate John McCain highlighted the hist...

The Lee Resolution is the first of “100 Milestone Documents” presented online by the National Archives and Records Administration. This site...

At History is a Weapon a brief audit of the role of bias in history begins, "History isn't what happened, but a story of what happ...

Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States (1980) has spawned an industry of creation. His website recently announced a new com...

I have remarked previously that Voices of a People’s History of the United States  (2004) by Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove offers a genero...

Patriots and Peoples has been online nearly four months. Initially I thought to create a public notebook along the lines of the notebooks I...