What pisses me off is that almost every AP program in the country uses his book.

His book is a P.O.S.

What kind of history book doesn’t have footnotes? Seriously.

Can you imagine what kind of grade a normal plebe like me would have received in grad school if I’d told my profs “I don’t believe in footnotes”?

Puh-leeze. He was a propagandist for the liberal elite, not a historian. And Matt Damon can shove it.

Zinn is no longer an atheist.

Someday, somewhere, a free man today is smiling.

RIP Howard. May God have mercy on your soul.

Philip P…where y’at?

Zinn challenged the status quo, write the Boston Globe reporters in that article? In academia, Zinn’s views *are* the status quo.

Best description of Zinn I have ever heard:
His version of American history is like picking out the black grains of sand from a white sand beach, and holding them up to prove that the sand you are standing on is black.
Can’t remember where I read that, but hey, who needs footnotes?

…and yes, he is the standard text for many(most, I think) AP and I.B. American Studies courses.
But they also use texts by conservatives… Okay, that’s a lie. I just wanted to see what it would look like in print, ’cause I’ll never see it in the classroom.

Words mean things, and sometimes two words don’t mean the same thing.

Zinn was a socialist (he described himself as “something of an anarchist, something of a socialist. Maybe a democratic socialist”).

Zinn was not, however, a Marxist.

Good stuff sir, linked at the Reaganite Republican-

http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com/2010/01/dear-leader-delivers-tedious-propaganda.html

I’ll concur; People’s History was used in my AP class. Not as the main text, mind you! As a supplement. And it does give you a good idea of what the Left tells themselves about America…

Took AP US History about 6-7 years ago. Used the book as a supplement, teacher raved about it.

dennymack:

IIRC it was Bill Whittle describing Noam Chomsky.

I think you have to teach the book. It is an important part of American historiography even if it is crap. Just like you have to read Foder’s Reconstruction despite his Commie beliefs.

My AP US History class did not really use People’s History.

Sure, the teacher recommended we get it first day of class but she never really mentioned it again.

Then again, she referred to us as her indentured servants ’til we passed the AP test (had a whole Davey Butcher Society stchik), so she may not have been normal.