What Howard Zinn Got Wrong The problem with Zinn’s work is that it fails to offer an honest account of how political change actually happens. Kyle Williams March 9, 2020.

This is Howard Zinn’s narrative in ‘A People’s History of the United States.’ It is fraudulent history, one that uses bad sources, such as a book by a Holocaust denier, anonymous diaries ...

This past January the 27 th was the anniversary of Howard Zinn’s death. For all who knew Howard, ... was from a teacher who was not only suggesting that Howards book was rife with inaccuracies, ...

In today’s Martin Center article, history professor Wilfred McClay reviews a book that takes dead aim at the Zinn mystique — Mary Grabar’s Debunking Howard Zinn. He writes: In Debunking ...

Howard Zinn became a prominent opponent of the war in Vietnam. In 1968, he and activist priest Father Daniel Berrigan flew to North Vietnam, coordinating the first release of U.S. prisoners of war ...

It is worth noting, too, that Zinn’s contempt, though focused on America, is fired by a more global hatred. As Handlin noted, “It would be a mistake … to regard Zinn as merely anti-American. Brendan ...

Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States didn’t make students hate America—and nor does Critical Race Theory or the 1619 Project.

Howard Zinn, a professor, author and social activist who inspired a generation on the American left and whose book “A People’s History of the United States” sold more than 1 million copies ...

Born Aug. 24, 1922, Howard Zinn grew up in New York City. His parents were Jewish immigrants, and his father ran candy stores during the Depression without much success.

Today marks the centennial of historian Howard Zinn’s birth. More than a decade after Zinn’s death in 2010, his best-selling A People’s History of the United States (1980) remains the most ...