Howard Zinn

Chapter 1 of Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States discusses the lives of natives of the Americas both prior to and after the arrival of European explorers, and includes a statement by the author on writing history. To begin, Christopher Columbus’s voyages to the Americas are covered heavily in the chapter, and I consider these themes regarding him to be the most important: • “The information that Columbus wanted most was: Where is the gold? He had persuaded the king and…

current society. There are several lessons that teach the perspective of only one side of the story. By looking at historic events from the viewpoint of the victims, we can see a whole new outlook on how our history affected everyone involved. Howard Zinn describes these outlooks perfectly in Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress. Perhaps some of the “heroes” in history are not actually who they are made out to be. According to history textbooks, Columbus is illustrated as a harmless…

opportunity to have a better live. For the result, of hard work dedication that she put in her education. She has accomplished one great that not many able to and that is her Harvard University degree. However, in A People’s History of American Empire by Howard Zinn video. Suggest that the idea of imperialism in our country…

The Vietnam War was fought from November 1, 1955 to April 30, 1975 between North Vietnam and South Vietnam. The U.S. supported South Vietnam because it was democratic. In addition, the U.S. wanted to prevent the spread of communism. The involvement of the United States in the Vietnam War has been a very controversial topic over the years. Some Americans believed that it was our duty to defend against the spread of communism while other Americans believed that it was an unnecessary war and it was…

companies and put them together to make one big company. But were these people actually “Rober Barons”? They had lots of money but were they breaking the law? In the book Taking Sides by Larry Madaras there are two people to argue this question. Howard Zinn believes that these big shot entrepreneurs were in deed “Robber Barons” because they exhilarated monopolies and used government officials to keep laws in agreement to it all. John S. Gordon argues…

Every children learned the first history lesson that Christopher Columbus was a hero because he across the Atlantic and discovered America. Besides, it is very important to tell children the accurate story of Columbus that Columbus also committed heinousness against the Indians. We should teach children that Columbus was a brave explorer, but he also did a lot of bad and unfair things that he did not believe Indian lives matter. After his arrival, many Indians who had been living in American…

does not account for the battles circumstance. The background essay explains that the United States’ government was aware that the annexation of Texas would anger the Mexican Officials. Therefore, the United States must have “provoked the war” as Howard Zinn suggested. The idea of provoking the war implies that the war’s happening is the fault of the American people. If this is true, than America is the cause of the loss of countless lives as well. Thus, President Polk established the Mexican­…

Howard Zinn once wrote that “The clash was not over slavery as a moral institution, rather the war was brought on by Northern and Southern elites who recognize the incompatibility of two distinct economic systems.” In this statement Zinn is referencing to the Civil War and stating that the war was started over the contrasting economic systems of the North and South. I disagree with this statement and instead believe that the peculiar institution, slavery, was the major factor that led to the…

Each group of colonists treated the natives as inferior peoples, mistreating them without remorse. Howard Zinn notes that they were, “knifing Indians by tens and twenties… cutting slices of them to test the sharpness of their blades,” (Zinn, 8). Also, they brought diseases into the New World, ones the natives have never seen before; as written in the American Pageant, “epidemics of smallpox and measles raced mercilessly…

happened last year in Arkansas. In 2017, a Republican lawmaker in Arkansas introduced a bill which called for the banning of all books from liberal author Howard Zinn including his book “A Peoples History of the United States,” from state classrooms. The bill was voted down a month later. It was not the first-time politicians tried to remove Zinn from the classroom, Indiana tried a few years earlier, unsuccessfully, and undoubtedly the attempt will be made again and again until…