Historian Howard Zinn dies

[Questioninggeller]

From the New York Times:

Howard Zinn, Historian and Activist, Dies at 87
New York Times
Jan. 27, 2010

Howard Zinn, an author, teacher and political activist whose book “A People’s History of the United States” became a million-selling leftist alternative to mainstream texts, died Wednesday in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 87 and lived in Auburndale, Mass.

The cause was a heart attack, his daughter Myla Kabat-Zinn said.

Published in 1980 with little promotion and a first printing of 5,000, “A People’s History” was, fittingly, a people’s best-seller, attracting a wide audience through word of mouth and reaching 1 million sales in 2003. Although Professor Zinn was writing for a general readership, his book was taught in high schools and colleges throughout the country, and numerous companion editions were published, including “Voices of a People’s History,” a volume for young people and a graphic novel.

“A People’s History” told an openly left-wing story. Professor Zinn accused Christopher Columbus and other explorers of committing genocide, picked apart presidents from Andrew Jackson to Franklin D. Roosevelt and celebrated workers, feminists and war resisters.
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He attended New York University and Columbia University, where he received a doctorate in history. In 1956, he was offered the chairmanship of the history and social sciences department at Spelman College, an all-black women’s school in segregated Atlanta.
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One of Professor Zinn’s last public writings was a brief essay, published last week in The Nation, about the first year of the Obama administration.

“I’ve been searching hard for a highlight,” he wrote, adding that he wasn’t disappointed because he never expected a lot from President Obama.
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Full: New York Times

 

[WildCat]

Obviously, the NWO killed him to suppress The Truth^TM about 9/11.

 

[Skeptic]

Wasn't he the "Indians lives in harmony and quiet until the evil white capitalistic man came and killed them all -- but I'm still going to live on their stolen land enjoying the capitalistic high standard of living" historian -- showing massive ignorance of both actual history and of double standards?

 

[Questioninggeller]

Wasn't he the "Indians lives in harmony and quiet until the evil white capitalistic man came and killed them all -- but I'm still going to live on their stolen land enjoying the capitalistic high standard of living" historian -- showing massive ignorance of both actual history and of double standards?

I've read his A People's History and other books, I don't remember anything like that.

 

[jimtron]

Wasn't he the "Indians lives in harmony and quiet until the evil white capitalistic man came and killed them all -- but I'm still going to live on their stolen land enjoying the capitalistic high standard of living" historian -- showing massive ignorance of both actual history and of double standards?

Zinn wrote/said that Indians lived "in harmony and quiet" until white men came along? Source?

 

[GreNME]

I've read his A People's History and other books, I don't remember anything like that.

Okay, but isn't he the one who punched babies and kicked puppy dogs?

Well-Poison™: for the discerning trolls who really want to get under Dirty Librul skin.

 

[Sword_Of_Truth]

Discussions of his "scholarship" are undoubtedly forthcoming.

For now, however, may he rest in peace.

 

[Skeptic]

Well, there is Oscar Handlin's devastating review of Zinn's "deranged fairy tale". Of course, this hasn't stopped numerous history and education people from telling everybody how one teach "equality in the history classroom" and the like (in reality, "America is evil") based on Zinn's nonsense, as even a quick look at google scholar (to give one source) will show.

 

[GreNME]

Well, there is Oscar Handlin's devastating review of Zinn's "deranged fairy tale". Of course, this hasn't stopped numerous history and education people from telling everybody how one teach "equality in the history classroom" and the like (in reality, "America is evil") based on Zinn's nonsense, as even a quick look at google scholar (to give one source) will show.

Sure, if your own poison for the well doesn't work, you can always borrow someone else's instead of reading anything of Zinn's and coming up with any actual evidence yourself.