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A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present

by Howard Zinn

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The Indian population of 10 million that lived north of Mexico when Columbus came would ultimately be reduced to less than a million.

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“The Horatio Alger stories of “rags to riches” were true for a few men, but mostly a myth, and a useful myth for control.”
― Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States

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“The development of a factory-like system in the nineteenth-century schoolroom was not accidental.”
― Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States

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“War is the health of the state,” the radical writer Randolph Bourne said, in the midst of the First World War.”
― Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States

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“Free land is gone. The last acre of available farmland has now passed into private or corporate hands.”
― Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States

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“The Union Pacific used twenty thousand workers—war veterans and Irish immigrants, who laid 5 miles of track a day and died by the hundreds in the heat, the cold, and the battles with Indians opposing the invasion of their territory.”
― Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States

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