Howard Zinn

In the book, Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor’s Last Century, Howard Zinn, Dana Frank, and Robin D.G. Kelley tell the compelling and intriguing stories of the working class throughout the 20th century. Howard Zinn tells the gruesome story of the Ludlow Massacre and the politics of corporate power. Dana Frank tells the story of the not very well known sit in strike organized by the “counter girls” at one of the largest companies in America. Lastly,…

During Eric Foner progressive era once slavery had been abolished in the British Empire, the former mother country represented freedom more genuinely than the United States. Howard Zinn understood the commonsense understanding of what is realistic in any political moment is always slanted against activist. Eric Foner progressives believe big government is not bad but can be used for good. Conservatives believe big government will lead to tyranny. He also said that the progressive movement was a…

knowledge that pertains to each side. With this in mind, it is only logical to apply a comparison between Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States and Larry Schweikart’s a Patriot’s History of the United States. More specifically, the difference in American foreign policy on the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War was a long and costly war between Northern Vietnam and…

triple alliance which included Austria- Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Germany. The United States had decided they wanted to join the war. Howard Zinn has an argument on why the United States decided to enter the war. The United States has a lot of reasons or ways that they wanted to go into the war with all the other counties. The overall argument of Howard Zinn on why the United States entered the war was because of money and how much money the U.S. could make going to war. It was also…

In both Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Child by Richard Rodriguez and American Ideology by Howard Zinn, knowledge and its uses are a central theme throughout the texts. In the former, Richard Rodriguez was born in 1944 in San Francisco to Spanish-speaking Mexican American parents. Once Rodriguez begun to attend school, the disadvantages of not knowing English became apparent and Rodriguez’s teachers began to encourage him to learn English. Rodriguez reflected on this time of his life and the…

Evan Hadingham’s “America’s First Immigrants” and Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States both portray the Americas prior to the American Revolution as an odd and bewildering era. Hadingham and Zinn challenge the credibility of historical accuracy on natives of the time period, as they denounce the so-called truths people believe everyday about the topic. They address ideas by looking into different perspectives during the discovery of the Americas and analyzing different bits of…

Beard stated that the rich founders protected what they had and that they did this by regulating the government by regulating the laws in which the government operates itself. Howard Zinn states that the Fathers were trying to keep the power that they already had. As most of the founding Fathers were “wealthy” lawyers, most of them had a significant amount of land, slaves or interest in manufacturing or shipping. They realized that…

Arawaks or their descendants left on the island.” (Zinn 5). From this account it’s evident that the Spanish deliberately exterminated an entire population because at that point there knew that there was no gold left and feeling much superior than the Natives, they sometimes killed the Natives for fun, “two of these so-called Christians met two Indian boys one day, each carrying a parrot; they took the parrots and for fun beheaded the boys,” (Zinn 6). Another instance that Las…

wrote The Unfinished Nation, and Howard Zinn, who wrote A People’s History of the United States, both speak about the events of the civil rights movement, but both give different perspectives. Although both arguments are compelling, Howard Zinn’s perspective is more persuasive. Howard Zinn perceived the civil rights movement in an abstract…

men in power took control of all the natural resources, gained huge influence in the government, destroyed competing companies, sold inflated stock, and only paid extremely low wages to their workers under harsh working environments. According to Howard Zinn, big corporation businessmen have a thing in common: they take control of all the natural resources for themselves. Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Morgan incorporated methods that forced sellers to meet the needs of the buyers. Rockefeller, on…