Foreword: Remembering Howard Zinn / by Noam Chomsky
Introduction: The People's Historian / by Timothy Patrick McCarthy
Part 1. The People's History
"Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress" from A People's History of the United States
"The Colorado Coal Strike, 1913-1914" from Three Strikes
"The New Abolitionists" and "Out of the Sit-Ins" from SNCC : The New Abolitionists
"Carter-Reagan-Bush : The Bipartisan Consensus" from A People's History of the United States
Interlude: Who Controls the Past Controls the Future
Part 2. The Politics of History
"What Is Radical History?" from The Politics of History
"'My Name Is Freedom' : Albany, Georgia" and "Selma, Alabama" from You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
"The Politics of History in the Era of the Cold War : Repression and Resistance" from The Cold War and the University
"A Yellow Rubber Chicken : Battles at Boston University" from You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
Interlude: How Social Change Happens
"Bunker Hill : Beginnings" from Postwar America
"Patriotism" from A Power Governments Cannot Suppress
"Law and Justice" from Passionate Declarations
"The Ultimate Power" from Passionate Declarations
Interlude: The Future of History
"Hiroshima and Royan" from The Politics of History
"Vietnam : The Moral Equation" from The Politics of History
"A Matter of Perspective," "Withdrawal," and "A Speech for LBJ" from Vietnam
"The Case Against War in Iraq" from The Zinn Reader
Interlude: Resistance and the Role of Artists
Part 5. Marx in Soho : A Play on History
Afterword / by Alice Walker.
