Nonfiction: A - P

Comic book on "Why the U.S. Can't Kick Militarism."
Reading Level: HIGH SCHOOL to ADULT.

Traces relations between Blacks and American Indians since the time of the conquest.
Reading Level: GRADES 6-8 to ADULT.

Challenges the misconception that only the South was involved in or benefited from slavery.
Reading Level: HIGH SCHOOL to ADULT.

In addition to the "founding fathers," the U.S. also owed its existence to the “body of the people,” an entire generation of American patriots who pushed for independence, fought a war, and set the United States on its course.
Reading Level: ADULT.

The story of the bus boycott, in which Rosa Parks played a role but was not the sole hero.
Reading Level: GRADES 3 to 8.

A celebration of poetry with a beat--includes CD & historical background.
Reading Level: GRADES PRE-K to 5.

This book is devoted to Zinn's views on education and its role in a democratic society. Zinn describes what is missing from school textbooks and in classrooms - and how we move beyond these deficiencies to improve student education.
Reading Level: ADULT.

Critical writing by the "Father of Harlem Radicalism."
Reading Level: HIGH SCHOOL to ADULT.

Mini-biographies emphasize one common theme: These 10 African-American women spoke out fearlessly in the fight for racial justice.
Reading Level: GRADES 3 to 8.

A detailed survey of 12 leading high school textbooks, which documents the inaccuracies provides the history that is missing.
Reading Level: GRADES HIGH SCHOOL to ADULT.

American history as lived and told by a great historian.
Reading Level: ADULT.

Sophisticated picture book on the many forms of slave resistance.
Reading Level: GRADES 3-6.

Zinn critiques the "American orthodoxies" -- justifications for war, cynicism about human nature and violence, pride in our economic system, certainty of our freedom of speech, romanticization of representative government, and confidence in our system of justice -- which, he believes, have a chilling effect on our capacity to think independently and to become active citizens in the long struggle for peace and justice.
Reading Level: ADULT.

Cartoons, photos, and narratives introduce U.S. history.
Reading Level: HIGH SCHOOL to ADULT.

A new look at history of science, highlights hunter-gatherers, farmers, sailors, miners, blacksmiths, and more.
Reading Level: HIGH SCHOOL to ADULT.

Weaving together diaries, personal letters, and other materials, this new volume tells the history of the American Revolution from the standpoint of its everyday participants: the common people, slave and free, who made up the majority in 18th-century America.
Reading Level: HIGH SCHOOL to ADULT.

This acclaimed work has been abridged the original text for classroom use.
Reading Level: ADULT.

Offers an incisive account of the war America lost, from the perspective of those who opposed it on both sides of the battlefront as well as on the homefront.

Includes vivid, first-person commentary from the ordinary men and women whose collective actions resulted in the defeat of the world's most powerful military machine.
Reading Level: GRADES HIGH SCHOOL to ADULT.