Howard Zinn

In chapter 16, Howard Zinn discussed many topics and various examples of the United States engaged in foreign affairs. Of these, the most impactful being World War II, the Korean War, and the tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union in forty year era known as the Cold War. However, Zinn early in the chapter explicitly declares that World War II was the largest and most effecting global conflict on the United States with 18 million men in the armed forces, 10 million soldiers…

traditional values. After examining two takes on colonial America, it is obvious that Howard Zinn focuses…

people of our country? This is a question that Howard Zinn provokes in his writing “Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology”. This is a debatable topic, with evidence to support both claims that agree and disagree. Are Howard Zinn's claims about America right, and is he persuasive about his point of view on the topic? Debater 1: Zinn's claims about America are correct and he is very persuasive on his point of view on the topic. Zinn provides many examples to support that…

Randolph Rogers and Howard Zinn both have stories of the European colonization of the New World. Rogers tells his story through panels on the Columbus Doors in front of the U.S. Capitol. Each panel on his doors tells a different section of Columbus’ life. Howard Zinn addresses European colonization of the New World in the first chapter of his book, A People’s History of the United States. Although both Rogers and Zinn tell a story of Christopher Columbus, their stories depict contrasting idea.…

In the article, A People’s History A People’s Pedagogy, the author Bill Bigelow discusses the beliefs of Howard Zinn, a historian, who was a popular orator who also wrote pieces in history that demonstrated passion through strongly supported arguments. Howard Zinn starts with a foundational belief that the lives of ordinary people matter. Furthermore, when learning about history, it should be examined from the lens of workers, women, and individuals of color. Additionally, the notion that the…

were assigned as well as online resources that were used, changed facts about how events truly took place in our past. Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States takes a stand against this type of thinking and education. Zinn’s perspective Zinn takes the perspective of the oppressed throughout our history and tells how life truly was for these people. Zinn takes a…

Chapter five in Howard Zinn’s novel A People’s History of the United States discusses the issues of the American Revolutionary War, the drafting and ratification of the Constitution, and the development of a national government. The first major event that chronologically appears in this chapter is the American Revolutionary War or otherwise known as the war for American independence. One of most important demographics when scrutinizing the American Revolution is the proportion of patriots…

taught to students throughout grade, middle and high school. Most of these misconceptions include the background information over topics such are Christopher Columbus, the pilgrims, Native Americans, and slavery. After reading books by authors like Howard Zinn and James Loewen it made it easier to understand how the history that has been included in textbooks is manipulated and altered by certain groups of people. People of which include Texas Education Board members like Don McLeroy, Mary Lou…

Zinn explains, that in the 1900s, foreign expansion was gaining popularity among countries so, the nation wanted to annex several territories, namely Cuba and Hawaii. During this time, the United States wanted to manipulate the foreign market and repair trade relations. Later, the United States’ wish to annex Cuba provoked the Spanish-American war, which the United States won. Still, the U.S. eventually was unable to suppress the Cuban rebels therefore unable to annex Cuba. Alternatively, the…

In “Respecting the Holocaust” by Howard Zinn, he argued against “the Uniqueness of the Jewish Holocaust”. In his essay, he provides positive and critical responses to the significance of the Holocaust in history. First, he starts by recalling “while he was teaching in Boston University and he was asked to talk about the event of the Holocaust, but he chooses to recall some events that happened in America and the death of hundreds of thousands of peasants in Guatemala and El Salvador.” Zinn’s…