Howard Zinn's History

Zinn’s History There are always two sides to a story. Upon reading the chapters of A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn I found myself scrambling new ideas and hearing different points of views that have never been evident in my history classes before. I had always heard the side of the story from the point of view of the conqueror, not the conquered. Of course, there are to be basic similarities, but what about the harsh truth? Zinn’s historical writing possessed a refreshingly new side of the story, one that seems more plausible and gives honest and harsh accounts of the events that took place. Furthermore, Zinn gives a lot of explanation to his outlandishly new point of view. In chapter one he puts forth the reasoning