“Nothing short of a masterpiece.” —NPR Books A New York Times Bestseller and a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year In the most ambitious one-volume A

“Should be in the hands of every history teacher in the country.”— Howard Zinn James Loewen has revised Teaching What Really Happened, the bestselling, go

"Americans have been warring with each other for more than a century over the contents of the American history textbooks used in the nation's high schools and c

Criticizes the way history is presented in current textbooks, and suggests a more accurate approach to teaching American history.

Since its original landmark publication in 1980, A People's History of the United States has been chronicling American history from the bottom up, throwing out