History ComicBook / APeoplesHistoryOfTheAmericanEmpire

* AllAsiansWearConicalStrawHats: Averted, the Viet Cong fighters wear them but no other Asian characters do.

* TheDandy: A Chicano zoot suiter narrates a segment about the suppression of culture.

* DragonLady: Invoked with Madam Nhu, who really was known as this.
* [[EndOfAnAge End of An Era]]

* GreaserDelinquents: They briefly appear when discussing rock 'n roll.
* TheGeneralissimo: The Somozas
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Too many too count; all of the named characters.
* HolidayInCambodia

* IDidWhatIHadToDo

* InjunCountry: The Wounded Knee and Pine Ridge segments are set in it.

* JungleWarfare: Most of the combat scenes.
* JustLikeRobinHood: Sandino is very much portrayed this way.
* LatinLand: Nicaragua, Cuba, and El Salvador all appear as settings.

* PopularHistory

* TheRez: The political variant, shown in the Pine Ridge segment.

* TheVietnamVet
* UrbanWarfare
* WarIsHell: Invoked by one soldier's helmet.
* WasItReallyWorthIt

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Tons of historical figures and many unnamed characters representing the everyday people the People's History books are really about.

* CIAEvilFBIGood: Very much averted, both are portrayed as sinister organizations with unchecked power.

* MixedAncestry: Sandino mentioned being the son of a native mother and father of Spanish descent. Additionally the half white Hawaiian revolutionary Robert Wilcox briefly appears.

* NotSoDifferent: As Zinn gets disillusioned with UsefulNotes/WorldWarII he starts to see the Axis and Allies this way.

* LatinoIsBrown: Zigzagged, most unnamed Latino characters are, but all of the Latin American historical figures are portrayed correctly as whatever ethnicity / race they were.

* AllAsiansWearConicalStrawHats: Subverted, the Viet Cong fighters wear them but no other Asian characters do.
* AuthorTract: Pretty up front about this, especially since its framed as a lecture.

* {{Bandito}}: Nicaraguan Augusto Sandino provides a rare heroic example and even rarer non Mexican one. Pancho Villa and Zapata also briefly appear.
* BombThrowingAnarchists: Sandino again, this trope is discussed as part of the reason Sacco and Vanzetti were convicted.

* GreaserDelinquents: Briefly appear when discussing rock n roll.

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Too many too count, all of the named characters.

* HopelessWar: Very strong message that ultimately war is senseless.

* InjunCountry: The Wounded Knee and Pine Ridge

* JustLikeRobinHood: Sandino is very much portrayed this way
* LatinLand: Nicaragua, Cuba, and El Salvador all appear as settings

* PreventTheWar: The whole reason Zinn is giving this lecture is with the hope of doing this, it fails.
* RebelLeader: Several are featured such as Emilio Aguinaldo, Antonio Maceo, and Augusto Sandino.
* TheRez: The political variant

* TwilightOfTheOldWest: The opening is about the massacre at Wounded Knee, which is usually seen as a catalyst of that era. The Ludlow Massacre is also detailed, which occurred in 1914 which was either at the very end or just after the end of the Old West depending on who you ask.

* WeirdTradeUnion: The Industrial Workers of the World play a prominent role in several of the storylines.
* WhiteMansBurden: President [=McKinley=] gives a speech justifying the invasion of the Philippines by saying it is America's duty to "civilize and Christianize" the Filipinos (even though they were already Christians).

* TwilightOfTheOldWest: The opening is about the massacre at Wounded Knee, which is usually seen as a catalyst of that era. The Ludlow Massacre is also detailed, which occurred in 1914 which was either at the very end or just after the end of the Old West depending on who you ask

* AllAsiansWearConicalStrawHats Subverted, the Viet Cong fighters wear them but no other Asian characters do.
* BananaRepublic Nicaragua is portrayed this way.
* Bandito Nicaraguan Augusto Sandino provides a rare heroic example and even rarer non Mexican one. Pancho Villa and Zapata also briefly appear.
* BombThrowingAnarchists Sandino again, this trope is discussed as part of the reason Sacco and Vanzetti were convicted.
* BraidsBeadsAndBuckskins The Sioux in both the Wounded Knee and later Pine Ridge segments dress this way.
* ChummyCommies Zinn mentions having several Communist friends growing up.

* DragonLady Invoked with Madam Nhu, who really was known as this.
* TheEndOfAnAge
* ForeverWar A major point the book makes is that the United States has been locked into a cycle of endless wars for most of its existence.
* GreaserDelinquents Briefly appear when discussing rock n roll.
* FBIGoodCIAEvil Very much averted, both are portrayed as sinister organizations with unchecked power.
* TheGeneralissimo The Somozas

* HopelessWar Very strong message that ultimately war is senseless.
* IDidWhatIHadTo

* InjunCountry The Wounded Knee and Pine Ridge
* InterchangeableAsianCultures A rare Middle Eastern example occurs with CIA operative Donald Wilber who hilariously lampshades it. "I know, I'm wearing an Arab kaffiyeh. A little eccentric for a Persian specialist. But we CIA men take such liberties because we can!"
* JungleWarfare Most of the combat scenes.

* LatinLand Nicaragua, Cuba, and El Salvador all appear as settings

* RebelLeader Several are featured such as Emilio Aguinaldo, Antonio Maceo, and Augusto Sandino.
* TheRez The political variant
* SleazyPolitician All of them, with the noted exception of Socialist presidential candidate Eugene Debbs.
* SoapboxSadie Zinn is by all means a heroic version, and his history of activism is detailed.
* TwilightOfTheOldWest The opening is about the massacre at Wounded Knee, which is usually seen as a catalyst of that era. The Ludlow Massacre is also detailed, which occurred in 1914 which was either at the very end or just after the end of the Old West depending on who you ask

* WarIsHell Invoked by one soldier's helmet.

* WeirdTradeUnion The Industrial Workers of the World play a prominent role in several of the storylines.
* WhiteMansBurden President McKinley gives a speech justifying the invasion of the Philippines by saying it is America's duty to "civilize and Christianize" the Filipinos (even though they were already Christians).

* NotSoDifferent As Zinn gets disillusioned with the WW2 he starts to see the Axis and Allies this way.

* PretextForWar Zinn notes that pretexts for war are frequently hoaxes, such as the Gulf of Tonkin incident.
* PreventTheWar The whole reason Zinn is giving this lecture is with the hope of doing this, it fails.

* EndOfAnEra

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Too many too count.

* RebelLeader Several are featured such as Emilio Aguinaldo, Augusto Sandino and Robert Wilcox.

* TwilightOfTheOldWest The opening is about the massacre at Wounded Knee, which is usually seen as a catalyst of that era.

* WeirdTradeUnion The Industrial Workers of the World play a prominent role in several of the storylines.

* TwilightOfTheAmericanWest Wounded Knee, which is usually seen as a catalyst of that era/

* Bandito Nicaraguan Augusto Sandino provides a rare heroic example and even rarer non Mexican one.

* GreaserDelinquants Briefly appear when discussing rock n roll.

* HopelessWar

* InjunCountry

* JungleWarfare

* PretextForWar

* RebelLeader
* TheRez

* SoapboxSadie

* WarIsHell

* WeirdTradeUnion

* Bandido Nicaraguan Augusto Sandino provides a rare heroic example and even rarer non Mexican one.

* TheGeneralissimo

* InterchangeableAsianCultures
* JungleWarfar

* NotSoDifferent

* PreventTheWar

* SleazyPolitician All of them, with the exception of Socialist presidential candidate Eugene Debbs.

* TwilightOfTheAmericanWest