Anthony Arnove and Haley Pessin
In this book, editors Anthony Arnove and Haley Pessin, curate voices of resistance and hope from 2000 to the present, inspired by the original Voices of a People’s History of the United States. The book features speeches, essays, songs, and documents from Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, indigenous struggles, the environmental movement, disability justice organizers, and frontline workers during the global pandemic who spoke out against the life-threatening conditions of their labor.
Gathering 120 documents from across the country and including contributions from Angela Y. Davis, Naomi Klein, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Ayo Tometi, Colin Kaepernick, Walter Mosley, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Amy Goodman, Nick Estes, Linda Sarsour, Marc Lamont Hill, Eve Ensler, Rebecca Solnit, Rev. William Barber and others, this book offers resources of hope for those seeking to understand our recent history so they can better understand how to change it.
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Voices of a People’s History of the United States – 10th Anniversary Edition
Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove
The tenth-anniversary edition of the primary-source companion to Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States, a source for the documentary The People Speak, now includes voices through the year 2014.
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Teaching with Voices of a People’s History of the United States
Gayle Olson-Raymer
Includes discussion, exam, and essay questions, creative ideas for in-class activities and group projects, and suggestions for teaching Voices alongside Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States.
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The People Speak (Extended Version)
The People Speak is a beautiful and moving film inspired by Howard Zinn’s books A People’s History of the United States—first published in 1980 and one of the best-selling history books in the United States—and Voices of a People’s History of the United States, the primary-source companion to A People’s History of the United States, edited with Anthony Arnove. The film features the actual words (in letters, songs, poems, speeches, and manifestos) of rebels, dissenters, and visionaries from our past—and present—including Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, Bob Dylan, Langston Hughes, Chief Joseph, Muhammad Ali, and unknown veterans, union workers, abolitionists, and many others never featured in high school textbooks. Like Howard Zinn’s work as a whole, The People Speak celebrates the extraordinary possibilities for creating social change that ordinary people have realized throughout the course of our nation’s rich but often ignored history of dissent and protest.
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A People’s History of the United States – 35th anniversary edition
With a foreword by Anthony Arnove and Howard Zinn
“A brilliant and moving history of the American people from the point of view of those who have been exploited politically and economically and whose plight has been largely omitted from most histories.”—Library Journal. An inspiration for the new film The People Speak.
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A Young People's History of the United States - Revised and Updated
Howard Zinn, Rebecca Stefoff, et al.
The seminal American history book for middle grade and high school readers, now revised and updated for the centennial of Howard Zinn's birth.
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La historia del pueblo de Estados Unidos para jóvenes - Revisada y actualizada
Howard Zinn, Rebecca Stefoff, et al., traducido por Hugo García Manríquez
La brillante y conmovedora historia del pueblo estadounidense para lectores de escuela intermedia y secundaria, ahora revisada y actualizada para el centenario del nacimiento de Howard Zinn.
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The Original Soundtrack from the film The People Speak. Features EXCLUSIVE, NEW, LIVE performances from Jackson Brown, Bob Dylan, John Legend, P!nk, Bruce Springsteen, Eddie Vedder and more! Some of the world’s most renowned artists came together for this film soundtrack. Springsteen performs with just a guitar and harmonica in his New Jersey home recording studio; Legend sings solo backed by a piano at a Boston theatre, as well as others (including Taj Mahal, Allison Moorer, The Black Crowes’ Rich Robinson and X’s Exene Cervenka and John Doe) at the Malibu Performing Arts Center, where they perform both vintage and recent protest-music classics for The People Speak.
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Readings from Voices of a People’s History of the United States
With readings by Josh Brolin, Danny Glover, Brian Jones, Sarah Jones, Christina Kirk, Viggo Mortensen, Sandra Oh, Paul Robeson, Jr., John Sayles, Wallace Shawn, Lili Taylor, Marisa Tomei, and Kerry Washington, and introductions by Anthony Arnove and Howard Zinn.
Bold and empowering words from America’s struggles, past and present, are performed here by some of our leading living voices.
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