Presents the history of the United States from the point of view of those who were exploited in the name of American progress.

A peer-reviewed open U.S. History Textbook released under a CC BY SA 3.0 Unported License.

Here in their own words are Frederick Douglass, George Jackson, Chief Joseph, Martin Luther King Jr., Plough Jogger, Sacco and Vanzetti, Patti Smith, Bruce Spri

"As majestic in its scope as the country it celebrates. [Johnson's] theme is the men and women, prominent and unknown, whose energy, vision, courage and confide