RIP Howard Zinn – The People’s Historian
If You Haven’t Read Howard Zinn, You’re Not Educated
It has often been said that History is told by the powerful. Well, when it comes to American History, Howard Zinn challenged and defeated that notion in 1980 with his powerfully influential work, “A People’s History of the United States.”
Required Reading for All Americans!
Howard Zinn, a professor of History at Boston University, generated a great deal of controversy among scholars and critics with “A People’s History” because he wrote about the American story from the perspective of slaves, the poor and working people. For those of you who haven’t yet read this book, I highly recommend you do. It very well may give you a different perspective of “populism” and class struggle in the U.S..
For those of you unfamiliar with Howard Zinn and want a quick insight into his thinking, take a look at this interview with him in 2008. Howard Zinn: one of the good guys!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wajahat-ali/the-late-great-howard-zin_b_439481.html
