Sara Noble "Many public schools in the United States have been putting Howard Zinn’s Marxist view of the history of the United States on reading lists and on bookshelves. Most recently, Zinn’s tome, A Peoples’ History of the United States, has been added to supplementary reading lists for AP U.S. history. There is even A Young Peoples’ History of the United States."How teachers in the classroom use it does matter, however, it reads more like Soviet propaganda than U.S. history and it’s about as accurate.
"Howard Zinn was a Marxist whose book presents a dreary, cynical history of a dystopian United States. It is filled with inaccuracies because, for him, it was not about the truth, it was about spreading the ideology. He used second-hand sources for his “factual US history – statements of alleged facts without footnotes, clip jobs, and interviews substituted for real research.
"Zinn came out the New Left and the 1960’s leftism extremism. His book reflects their views." ...
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But wait! There's more! The article finishes with this:
"Bill Bigelow, who runs the Zinn Project today, wrote an anti-July 4 article this year, claiming that George Washington was a war criminal and Thomas Jefferson basically plagiarized The Declaration of Independence.
"Zinn was an America-basher, a dangerous one. So are his followers who keep the flame alive.
"Parents need to read over their children’s reading material or they might find their child growing up hating America." (Emphasis added, TD)
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