Foreword 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" from SNCC -- "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 -- Part 3. Protest Nation -- "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 -- Part 4. 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 -- Interlude: Resistance and the Role of Artists -- Part 5. Marx in Soho : A Play on History -- Afterword / by Alice Walker