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The Other Civil War Slavery and Struggle in Civil War America

The Other Civil War Slavery and Struggle in Civil War America

HistoryPolitics
Pages
160
Published
2011
Language
English

Synopsis

The Other Civil War offers historian and activist Howard Zinn's view of the social and civil background of the American Civil War—a view that is rarely provided in standard historical texts. Drawn from his New York Times bestseller A People's History of the United States, this set of essays recounts the history of American labor, free and not free, in the years leading up to and during the Civil War. He offers an alternative yet necessary account of that terrible nation-defining epoch.

Prose complexity
7/10

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About the author

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Howard Zinn

Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922 – January 27, 2010) was an American historian, playwright, and socialist thinker. He was chair of the history and social sciences department at Spelman College, and a political science professor at Boston University. Zinn wrote over 20 books, including his best-selling and influential A People's History of the United States. In 2007, he published a version of it for younger readers, A Young People's History of the United States. Zinn described himself as "someth...

Frequently asked questions

  • Is this book a new, original work by Howard Zinn?

    This volume is a spin-off publication that extracts specific chapters from Zinn's larger work, A People's History of the United States, rather than being a newly written manuscript.

  • Does this book cover the military history of the Civil War?

    The text focuses almost exclusively on social and class conflicts occurring within the North and South during the era, intentionally omitting traditional accounts of military battles and secession.