Howard Zinn

The current world is a place of ongoing crisis. People live and survive in a crisis cycle; one crisis after another. Either from natural occurring crisis such as hurricanes or earthquake to man made for example war or poverty. Looking at the present day crisis most will assume that crisis is a variable that is inevitable. However, there are many who disagree with the previous idea. Some believe that since the crisis is created by people it can also be destroyed by its creators. For humans are…

disobedience but from obedience” (Zinn). These words of American historian Howard Zinn reveal the supposition that all things are wrong, that the wrong people are in suffering and the wrong people are out of suffering, that the wrong people have freedom and the wrong people are out of freedom. Howard Zinn once said, “It’s the way we as a nation refuse to obey with certain laws which leads to the refusal to paying fines, and taxes, as a peaceful political protest would be.” (Zinn). The long…

Near the end of this chapter, while Howard Zinn details the conflicts and struggles in the Philippines, Zinn focuses solely on the negative aspects of American involvement in the Philippines. He asserts, by only revealing the harsh realities of the wars, America did nothing but hurt the Filipino people. In addition, it is clear Zinn also asserts that America only wanted to come to the Philippines to have a war. While some of what Zinn claims is true, it can easily be modified by discussing…

over the question if the big business men of the late nineteenth century were “robber barons” has been widely debated by historians. Notably, Howard Zinn (yes) and John S. Gordon (no) have documented their reasonings behind their opinions on if the big business men truly were “robber barons” or simply “captains of industry”. Most significant was Howard Zinn’s argument that they were robber barons based on how they treated workers, as well as the issues of scandals, bribery, and corruption.…

Zinn does a very good job about attacking the reader from a Native American’s perspective. Zinn uses quotes from Columbus’ own journal and describes to the reader what it was like back then. He quotes, “As soon as I arrived in the Indies, on the first Island which I found, I took some of the natives…

In Howard Zinn’s book, Passionate Declarations: Essays on War and Justice, Chapter 1 entitled, “Introduction: American Ideology, “talks about different ideas and beliefs. One of them is the idea that western people came up centuries ago, which was that black’s people are less than humans. This idea was presented by political leaders and accepted by the American public in 1964, this idea led to mass murder and cost millions of lives, including those of 55,000 young Americans. Another idea that he…

Harel Tillinger Zinn to Royal In the article, “Columbus and the Beginning of the World” by Robert Royal, the author describes Columbus’s adventure as one of the most important in history and describes his friendliness toward the Indians. His argument is that Columbus said the Tainos were “closer to the conditions of the Garden of Eden than those enmeshed in the conflicts of ‘civilization’”(Royal 7) is not consistent with Columbus’s actions toward the natives. If Columbus believed that the…

I agree with Howard Zinn’s viewpoint of objectivity and subjectivity in a way. In Zinn’s excerpt he proclaims how “One, that it’s not possible. Two, it's not desirable”. Zinn was talking about how If you were to take a history book of some sort and start putting certain facts into the book and big ideas it’s already subjective. For a history book, website or museum to be objective it would need to have every fact of every story from every angle of that event. “People claim they were objective.…

right thing and Zinn provides evidence to support all of these people. For example, African Americans fought for equality for generations in hopes that their children would live a better life than them. Many of them were involved with the rebellions around the 60s; they felt a need to rebel since peaceful protests did not make any changes. By acting up and letting their voices becoming heard, civil rights laws were passed in 1960, 1964, and 1957. These laws promised voting equality, and…

human is unbearable and create the most painful and death for people. This tactic is usually used in the jungle or bushes where Vietcong are hidden. According to “Howard Zinn a people's history of the united states” book, eight millions tons of bombs and were dropped in Vietnam and the amount is three times the amount used in WWII. Howard Zinn also mentioned that not only the U.S military were using napalm but they also using…