Voices Of A People's History Of The United States includes selected testimonies to living history left by the people who make history happen but are often left out of history books - women, workers, non-whites. Also included are introductions to the original texts by Zinn. New voices being considered for this tenth Anniversary Edition include Chelsea Manning, in the statement she made after being sentenced to 35 years in prison and a member of The Dream Defenders (a youth organisation that confronts systemic racial inequality).

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Columbus and Las Casas -- The first slaves -- Servitude and rebellion -- Preparing the Revolution -- Half a Revolution -- The early women's movement -- Indian removal -- The War with Mexico -- Slavery and defiance -- Civil War and class conflict -- Strikers and Populists in the Gilded Age -- The expansion of the empire -- Socialists and Wobblies -- Protesting the First World War -- From the Jazz Age to the uprisings of the 1930s -- World War II and McCarthyism -- The Black upsurge against racial segregation -- Vietnam and beyond: the historic resistance -- Women, Gays, and other voices of resistance --Losing control in the 1970s -- The Carter-Reagan-Bush consensus -- Panama, the 1991 Gulf War, and the war at home -- Challenging Bill Clinton -- Bush II and the "War on Terror." -- Rising resistance in the 21st century -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Credits and Permissions -- Index.