A Young People’s History of the United States

Adapted by Rebecca Stefoff with contributions by Ed Morales

With new contributions by Latinx scholar Ed Morales and adapter Rebecca Stefoff, based on newly available scholarship, here is a new and revised edition of Howard Zinn’s seminal text, A Young People’s History of the United States. A new chapter, introduction, conclusion and further updates throughout the book expand our understanding of Latinx history in the United States through the political movements and cultural contributions of Latino Americans, as well as expanded coverage of Native history and Asian American activism.

This now-classic work of radical and activist U.S. history gives readers the viewpoints of workers, enslaved people, immigrants, women, Native Americans, and others whose stories, and their impact, are rarely included in books for young people. Beginning with a look at Christopher Columbus’s arrival through the eyes of the Arawak Indians, then leading the reader through the struggles for worker’s rights, women’s rights, and civil rights during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and ending with the recent protests against continued U.S. imperialism, Howard Zinn presents a radical new way of understanding U.S. history. 

Published by Seven Stories Press, 2023.