A People's History of The United States - Other Editions and Related Works

Other Editions and Related Works

A version of the book titled The Twentieth Century contains only chapters 12-25 ("The Empire and the People" to "The 2000 Election and the 'War on Terrorism'"). Though it was originally meant to be an expansion of the original book, recent editions of A People's History now contain all of the later chapters from it.

In 2004, Zinn and Anthony Arnove published a collection of more than 200 primary source documents titled Voices of a People's History of the United States, available both as a book and as a CD of dramatic readings. Writer Aaron Sarver notes that although Kazin "savaged" Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States, "one of the few concessions Kazin made was his approval of Zinn punctuating 'his narrative with hundreds of quotes from slaves and Populists, anonymous wage-earners and ... articulate radicals.'"

Whether Zinn intended it or not, Voices serves as a useful response to Kazin’s critique. As Sarver observes, "Voices is a vast anthology that tells heartbreaking and uplifting stories of American history. Kazin will be hard-pressed to charge Zinn with politicizing the intelligence here; the volume offers only Zinn’s sparse introductions to each piece, letting the actors and their words speak for themselves."

In 2008, Zinn worked with Mike Konopacki and Paul Buhle on creating A People's History of American Empire, a graphic novel that covers various historic subjects from A People's History of the United States as well as Zinn's own history of involvement in activism and historic events as covered in his autobiography You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train.

Zinn worked as the series editor for a series of books under the A People's History label. This series expands upon the issues and historic events covered in A People's History of the United States by giving them in-depth coverage, and also covers the history of parts of the world outside the United States. These books include:

• A People's History of the Supreme Court by Peter Irons with Foreword by Zinn
• A People's History of Sports in the United States by Dave Zirin with an introduction by Howard Zinn
• A People's History of American Empire (American Empire Project) by Howard Zinn, Mike Konopacki, and Paul Buhle
• The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World by Vijay Prashad
• A People's History of the American Revolution by Ray Raphael
• A People's History of the Civil War by David Williams
• A People's History of the Vietnam War by Jonathan Neale
• The Mexican Revolution: A People's History by Adolfo Gilly

Likewise, other books were inspired by the series:

• A People's History of Australia from 1788 to the Present edited by Verity Burgmann. A four volume series that looks at Australian history thematically, not chronologically.
• A People's History of Science: Miners, Midwives, and Low Mechanicks by Clifford D Connor..
• A People's History of the World by Chris Harman. It is endorsed by Zinn