“Does for the Civil War period what Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States did for the study of American history in general.” —Library

"A fast-paced, often riveting account of the military and political events leading up to the Declaration of Independence and those that followed during the war

A peer-reviewed open U.S. History Textbook released under a CC BY SA 3.0 Unported License.

Since its original landmark publication in 1980, A People's History of the United States has been chronicling American history from the bottom up, throwing out

The little-known history of anti-secession Southerners: “Absolutely essential Civil War reading.” —Booklist, starred review Bitterly Divided reveals that