text:  Patty Smith performing People Have the Power at the first performance of Voices of a People's History of the United States. This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, the War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman. Today in this special broadcast, we look at Voices of a People's History inspired by the late great historian Howard Zinn's groundbreaking book, A People's History of the United States, which helped reshape how history is taught in classrooms.