" A People’s History of the United States" is the history book used in my HS in 1982. Considering it was first published in 1980, looks kinda fishy how it became so prevalent overnight. Almost like it was part of some kind of plot. Even then my history teacher knew it was garbage.
Go to the link, theres a nice summary there. Heres the first paragraph:
According to Mary Grabar’s Debunking Howard Zinn, to call Howard Zinn a historian is a misnomer if not a travesty. Yet this is how Zinn, the late author of the best-selling A People’s History of the United States is publicly identified. For over a quarter of a century, his book has been highly influential in shaping Americans’ understanding of the past and made him somewhat of a celebrity. By recent counts, it sold over two million copies and is used in high schools and survey American history courses in colleges throughout the country. Undoubtedly, any historian—no matter how excellent and popular his or her work is—would be jealous of that record. However, as Mary Grabar points out, Zinn had a different project in mind than most historians. As he once wrote, history is “not about understanding the past,” but about “changing the future.” Not one serious historian I know would make such a claim. Given the prominence and influence of Zinn’s book, Mary Grabar’s thoughtful and well-researched critique is most necessary and timely.
Zinn was no historian. He was a social engineer and a communist.
Howard Zinn look him up.
https://lawliberty.org/howard-zinn-fake-historian/
" A People’s History of the United States" is the history book used in my HS in 1982. Considering it was first published in 1980, looks kinda fishy how it became so prevalent overnight. Almost like it was part of some kind of plot. Even then my history teacher knew it was garbage.
Go to the link, theres a nice summary there. Heres the first paragraph:
Zinn was no historian. He was a social engineer and a communist.