Foreword / by Noam Chomsky
The People's Historian / by Timothy Patrick McCarthy
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" from SNCC
"Carter-Reagan-Bush: The Bipartisan Consensus" from A People's History of the United States
Who Controls the Past Controls the Future
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
How Social Change Happens
Protest Nation. "Bunker Hill: Beginnings" from Postwar America
"Patriotism" from A Power Governments Cannot Suppress
"The Ultimate Power" from Passionate Declarations
On War and Peace. "Hiroshima" from The Politics of History
"Vietnam: The Moral Equation" from The Politics of History
"Withdrawal, " from Vietnam
"The Case Against War in Iraq" from The Boston Globe
Resistance and the Role of Artists
Marx in Soho: A Play on History
Afterword / by Alice Walker.