Non-Fiction

geardaddy

(25,342 posts) Tue Dec 8, 2015, 02:31 PM Dec 2015

Anyone read/reading People's History of the United States of America?

I'm reading it and I am on the part where they talk about how the rich landholders were worried about poor whites combining forces with the Natives and African Americans.

It's really enlightening to see how the ruling elite made huge efforts to maintain their status at the expense of African Americans and Natives.

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Anyone read/reading People's History of the United States of America? (Original Post) geardaddy Dec 2015 OP

No, but I need to. Sadly, I don't even have a copy of it. SheilaT Dec 2015 #1

You can read it free online with publishets permission gabeana Dec 2017 #5

Yes. I think twice. Ready to read it again. Should be required reading for students. YOHABLO Mar 2016 #2

Agreed! MurderMittenLiberal Oct 2017 #4

Good book MemphisMoocows Mar 2016 #3

SheilaT

(23,156 posts)

1. No, but I need to. Sadly, I don't even have a copy of it.

Reply to geardaddy (Original post)

Sat Dec 12, 2015, 02:05 AM

Dec 2015

gabeana

(3,170 posts)

5. You can read it free online with publishets permission

Reply to SheilaT (Reply #1)

Thu Dec 14, 2017, 05:20 PM

Dec 2017

Just go to the site history is a weapon, its right there for ur enjoyment

YOHABLO

(7,358 posts)

2. Yes. I think twice. Ready to read it again. Should be required reading for students.

Reply to geardaddy (Original post)

Sat Mar 5, 2016, 01:01 PM

Mar 2016

MurderMittenLiberal

(92 posts)

4. Agreed!

Reply to YOHABLO (Reply #2)

Tue Oct 10, 2017, 12:08 PM

Oct 2017

Should be required reading for every American Citizen tbh...

MemphisMoocows

(16 posts)

3. Good book

Reply to geardaddy (Original post)

Tue Mar 15, 2016, 03:39 PM

Mar 2016

Excellent book, read it during my formative years! He writes with an obvious agenda and has an axe to grind, but then again, you can't blame him. I loved how the book just jumped into the subject full force by debunking any notion that Christopher Columbus was some kind of hero and revealed how brutal and racist his whole enterprise of "discovering" America was.

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