The “Bad History” of Howard Zinn and the Brainwashing of America By Mary Grabar America’s Survival‚ Inc. 443-964-8208 1 www.usasurvival.org CONTENTS I. II. III. IV. V. VI. A History That No Self-Respecting Marxist Historian Would Consider Reinventing the Wheel The History of the Scottsboro Case as Prelude Reshaping Humanity for Utopia For Kids: The Radical Historian as Super-Hero Zinn’s Real Scholarship 2 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Although Howard Zinn denied membership in the Communist
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Placement United States History Summer Assignment 2010 Paul Johnson and Howard Zinn are both famous historians whom are great and entertaining writers. Beside the facts that they see the beginning of America with different views. Howard is extremely honest about his radical bias while Paul Johnson believed that the world was well managed by a few superb individuals. Here are some of their points of views. Howard Zinn covers early Native American civilization in North America and the Bahamas‚ the
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What is Gordon S. Wood’s argument and what is Howard Zinn’s argument on the nature of the American War for Independence and what evidence do the two historians present to support their interpretations? Who do you think presents the better case? Howard Zinn Howard Zinn’s argument on the nature of the American War for Independence was the war for independence was not a social revolution. Instead‚ he argues the colonial elite used the war for their own personal gain in power and status. The wealthy and
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Howard Zinn challenges the American identity by suggesting that America is just as bad as Great Britain in that the countries are both incredibly elitist. Going back to the founding fathers‚ the U.S. has an uneven distribution of wealth‚ and the founding fathers wanted to oppress the lower class. Once the lower class realized this‚ riots were held against the elites. Zinn argues that the American Revolution merely shifted the elite tyranny from one leader to another. The founding fathers that are
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Lewis Final Paper Howard Zinn’s “The Peoples History of the United States”‚ is a must read. This book is very eye opening and informative. By just looking at the title we can conclude that the approach to the history of the United States used by Zinn‚ is that of the people. His writes this book from a completely different perspective of most historians. He finds a way to make history become alive and present in our everyday lives. He creates awareness in things our forefathers wanted us to overlook
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and the telling of history from the standpoint of the conquerors and leaders of Western civilization.” This is a concise summary of pages 111‚ stating the claim of Zenn’s underlying argument in regards to all the information presented in the first chapter. 3. Howard Zinn held the nowmainstream idea that traditional (school) history books portray Christopher Columbus in a way to promote a supposed national interest‚ so that his “discovery”
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HIST17A Chapter 5 “Shingas asked General Braddock‚ whether the Indians that were friends to the English might not be permitted to Live and Trade among the English and have Hunting Ground sufficient to Support themselves and Familys....” As I was reading this quote‚ I think this quote represents how racist people in the old days were. Indians that were friends to the English might not be permitted to Live and Trade. It was because of the war with the British. Racism is generally understood
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Chapter 9 summary In this chapter it tells a story about slavery before and after the Civil War. It explains the United States provision of slavery and how some people were misled on who ended slavery‚ how it was Abraham Lincoln and not John brown who was hung later in 1859 for his crimes. It later goes into graphic detail of how slaves were kept into slavery by whipping and separating families. It sort of reminds of the movie 12 years a slave I would recommend it. It’s sad but true story of
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IB History October 2‚ 2011 Chapter 6 “The Intimately Oppressed” Overview While reading the sixth chapter of Howard Zinn‚ I could not help but notice that the central focus was on women who rebelled against the inequalities women were given post-declaration. My AP History teacher last year‚ Mr. Hall‚ used to commonly use the saying “Now ladies… Sorry to say this but until about seventy years ago‚ you didn’t count for much.” This is a prime example of how the women in the 17th and 18th century
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Howard Zinn Vs. Paul Johnson While Paul Johnson focuses on the accomplishments of the colonists‚ Howard Zinn’s work is more focused on the atrocities the colonists committed. Howard Zinn starts out his novel with the innocent Arawaks greeting Columbus with a bountiful amount of gifts to which Columbus responds selfishly by demanding they show him where the gold is located. After that‚ things rapidly decline. Zinn proceeds to highlight the enslavement and harsh treatment of the natives by Columbus
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