Summary I COLUMBUS, THE INDIANS, AND HUMAN PROGRESS A People's History of the United States is a book written by Howard Zinn, whose purpose is not to introduce someone to American History. He assumes his readers already know the basics. Of course, many people do not. It is not a history of the United States but it is a series of contentious corrections to the history traditionally taught in American classrooms. Zinn presents the major …showed first 75 words of 2499 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2499 total…the people's anger against them and used it, quite ironically, for their own advancement. Ultimately, for the first 250 years of America's History, there was oppression and class warfare on varying scales that are traditionally ignored or unemphasized by traditional history texts, but Zinn masterfully shows the reader are major and influential parts of American history. To ignore the plight of the conquered and oppressed is to ignore a part of history that cannot be ignored.