Howard Zinn

George Lucas once said, “Power corrupts, and when you're in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they're actually not.” This theme is very evident and important in House of the Scorpion as some of the characters are very powerful and cannot properly handle their power. House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer documents the journey of Matt, who is the clone of a powerful drug lord. After being injured, he goes to the Big House and meets this drug lord, who has lived for over…

More than an inventor, Dr. Charles Drew was the first African American to create unique methods of storing blood plasma for transfusion and organized the first large-scale blood bank in the United States. Growing up the oldest out of his siblings, Drew was an athletic student that excelled in every sport he played. Since his father, a carpet layer, was not financially able to send him to college, Drew heavily relied on his athletic abilities to get him to Amherst College in 1926. After…

Can you imagine what our former president, William Taft, had to yell when he got stuck in the white house bath tub? Well we may never know, but we can learn about Taft, his presidency, and the life in 1908. The life of William Howard Taft was a very simple, yet very impressive. He accomplished alot throughout his life. Which all started September 15, 1857 in Cincinnati Ohio.(Biography.com) Since Taft was one of the earlier presidents he had a lot of firsts that other presidents didn't get to…

The Museum Of Modern Art starts when three prominent women envision a museum devoted to contemporary art: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller(wife of John D. Rockefeller, Jr.) and two of her friends, Lillie P. Bliss and Quinn Sullivan Lillie P. Bliss is one of the leading collectors of modern art in New York. Mary Quinn Sullivan is a pioneer modern art collector. They all felt a need to challenge the traditional policies of museums and to make a foundation devoted exclusively to modern art. Abigail Greene…

interpretation was he thought that there were more social divisions such as more population and consumer marketplace. Howard Zinn thought they owed largely too many of the problems that was from the rise of the industrial capitalism. Many progressives tried to enact on many of these social issues including Howard Zinn himself. He saw the problem as being started as capitalism itself. Zinn said “that they could not count on the national government. True, this was the “progressive period” the…

unacceptable things that Columbus did. Howard Zinn says, “He said that cruel treatment by Columbus and the Europeans who came after him caused “complete genocide” of the Indians,” (Zinn 10). Obviously, Zinn sees Columbus as a villain. Howard Zinn uses words like seized, captivity, and killed. This helps you realize that Columbus did many horrible things. Howard Zinn is the head of history in Boston University, which means he knows a lot about history. Zinn must have a lot of knowledge when it…

Reconstruction period (Zinn, n.d.). The Freedmen Bureau assumed the direction and controlling of all uninhibited acreages and the governing of all focusses linking to freedmen, in such guidelines and code of practice as offered by the head of the Freedmen Bureau and sanctioned by the President (Wormser, 2002). The Bureau's mission was to give assistance to African-American’s too modified a culture founded on slavery to one that is consenting to freedom (Zinn, n.d.). General Howard was the first…

Hollywood has influential effects on a society as well. Howard Zinn, was a professor and currently is a book publisher, a play, and musical writer. Howard soon realizes in his career something seems to be odd about the way Hollywood makes films on history. He felt it was very important for the public to realize how Hollywood portrays the teachings of American history; not to mention, how educational books is as similar for false information. Howard wanted to prove this point in his article…

The progressive era is believed to be a time of progress and effective progress at that. Yet, the views of Eric Foner and Howard Zinn seem to differ when given the opportunity to express how they feel about the progressive era. It seems like the subject wouldn’t be that hard to agree on, but oddly the two authors have two separate and very distinctive views on this particular era in American history. Eric Foner, the author of ‘Give Me Liberty’ believes that the progressive era lead up to its…

Zinn and Greene – Compare and Contrast The American Revolution has been hailed as a turning point in the history of Americans. Some educators use the American Revolution as an example of American willpower, and how America won’t stand for being abused or oppressed in any way. Others might have a different idea of what the revolution represents to them. The majority of the literature students read on the American Revolution tell a story of how America gained its independence through their pure…