To commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, HarperCollins has released an American Classics series with selected titles from their catalog they identify as “books that define a nation.”
In addition to Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States (1980), also included in the American Classics series are Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1937); Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (1962); The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin (1974); The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (1998); All About Love by bell hooks (1999); The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni by Nikki Giovanni (2003); South to America by Imani Perry (2022); and many more.
