Here in their own words are Frederick Douglass, George Jackson, Chief Joseph, Martin Luther King Jr., Plough Jogger, Sacco and Vanzetti, Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Mark Twain, and Malcolm X, to name just a few of the hundreds appearing in Voices of a People's History of the United States, edited by Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove. Paralleling the 24 chapters of Zinn's A People's History of the United States, Voices of a People's Historyis the long-awaited companion volume to the national bestseller.

For Voices, Zinn and Arnove have selected testimonies to living history-speeches, letters, poems, songs-left by the people who make history happen, but who usually are underrepresented or misrepresented in history books: women, Native Americans, workers, blacks and Latinos. Zinn has written short introductions to the texts, which themselves range in length from letters or poems of less than a page to entire speeches and essays that run several pages and longer. Voices of a People's Historyis a symphony of our nation's original voices, rich in ideas and actions, an embodiment of the power of civil disobedience and dissent, wherein lies our nation's true spirit of defiance and resilience.

Beloved historian and activist Howard Zinnis the author of the best-selling A People's History of the United Statesand many other books, including The Zinn Reader(Seven Stories Press 2000), Artists in the Time of War(Seven Stories Press, 2003) and Terrorism and War(Seven Stories Press 2002).

Anthony Arnoveis the editor of Terrorism and Warby Howard Zinn, and Iraq Under Siege. An activist and regular contributor to ZNet, his writing has appeared in The Nation, The Financial Timesand Mother Jones. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

This anthology contains hundreds of testimonies by people who are often under-represented or misrepresented in American history books: women, Native Americans, workers, and people of color. Ranging from letters and poems of less than a page in length to entire speeches and essays, these selections express the power of civil disobedience and dissent. The volume is organized chronologically around themes such as slavery, the early women's movement, McCarthyism, the Vietnam Era, and the War on Terror. Historian Zinn is the author of A People's History of the United States, and journalist Arnove is a regular contributor to ZNet.
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Here in their own words are Frederick Douglas, George Jackson, Martin Luther King Jr, Bruce Springsteen, Mark Twain and Malcolm X, to name just a few of the hundreds of voices that appear in this volume.

Hundreds of our nation's original voices--such as Martin Luther King Jr., Sacco and Vanzetti, Bruce Springsteen and Mark Twain--are woven together in a rich tapestry of ideas and actions, illustrating the true spirit of defiance and resilience in America.

Howard Zinn is the author of numerous books, including his epic masterpiece, A People's History of the United States, as well as many recent books published by Seven Stories Press: Voices of a People's History of the United States and Terrorism and War, and The Zinn Reader. He is a professor emeritus of political science at Boston University.