The term “people’s history” was popularized by historian Howard Zinn in his 1980 book A People’s History of the United States: 1492–Present, which revisits U.S. history from the perspective of Indigenous Americans, enslaved Africans, and the working classes from the arrival of Columbus to the 20th century. Organizations that offer tourist experiences rooted in people’s histories seek to disrupt these narratives. “When people find out that the benefits inured to them in workplaces are from people’s history, organizing, collective action—they’re shocked,” he says. Warner founded Black History Walks in 2007 after taking several walking tours around London, where Black histories were conspicuously absent. In his text, Zinn embraces this type of engagement and activist scholarship, writing that people’s histories “lean in a certain direction,” opposite dominant historiographies.