Howard Zinn

Overall name of website: Boston Massacre Historical Society Copyright: © 2008 Boston Massacre Historical Society Footnotes: 1. Zinn, Howard. A People’s History of the United States. New York: HarperCollins, 1999. 2. Zobel, Hiller B. The Boston Massacre. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1970. 3. Allison, Robert. The Boston Massacre. Beverly, MA: Applewood Books, 2006. “The Boston…

for independence… Spanish atrocities… competition between the World and the Globe [rival newspapers]…” (Axelrod et al.). Zinn, Schweikart, and Allen, contrastingly, choose to exclusively emphasise only one reason for war: for Zinn - American business interests, for Schweikart and Allen - sympathization for democracy and “American humanitarianism” (Schweikart and Allen 420). Zinn specifically cites sources such as the Bureau of Foreign Commerce of the Department of Commerce, which wrote “The…

Who was Christopher Columbus? Was he really the great man many children 's books say he was? Was the the explorer who discovered America? Or was he a successful criminal who pillaged and raped the so called ‘inferior’ native Americans? Lots of evidence provided by historians and writers points to both sides of the argument. Some say that Columbus was a villain who claimed land that was already owned and occupied by millions of native American tribes who he called Indians (due to the fact that he…

According to Zinn, he argues that the American Revolution did not result in any major changes in the new nation and the main reason for this war was for the wealthy individuals to gain power and benefit from the common people. He goes further to explain that the Founding…

Wood are two different authors who bring different perspectives on the Constitution. According to Howard Zinn, the Constitution was a compromise between Federalists and non-Federalists to decide how commerce was should be done between the states where the federal government did not have a lot of authority and there was a need for a balance of power. The…

facts, as radioactive wastes are buried in containers in the earth. We have learned to give them exactly the same proportion of attention that teacher and writers often give them in the most respectable of classrooms and textbooks.” (Zinn, Howard 1980) A quote by Howard Zinn, from A People’s History of the United States. We cannot continue to bury the atrocious acts of the past. We must uncover them and learn from them so they are not repeated. By learn, I mean take note and be aware of what…

in the activities of the country. They fought for the equality among genders. Women progressives wanted to vote and have equal working opportunities as men. All workers were being exploited by companies that wanted profits in whatever way possible (Zinn 11). This led to several strikes and demonstrations by laborers. Also, black people and immigrants wanted racial equality. Slavery was over, but people were still not equal. White people remained privileged over all other races and progressives…

There is several information I learn through this class. All this information was mentioned in the chapter of the books we used for this class. Most of the information I have learned was about History, History’s textbooks, Publishers of textbooks, and the story of America. History is a course that is supposed to tell the stories of the past to the present generation. However, History presents the stories not as they exactly occurred. The stories of the past of America were not told exactly as…

Howard Zinn’s, A People’s History of the United States, discusses the upbringing of the United States, particularly in the terms of slavery and inequalities among races; he tells the story of the country and the problems that accompanied it. Within the book, it is shown that there are inequalities between economic class, race, and gender, each expressing superiorities and inferiorities. These disparities contribute to the idea that the Declaration of Independence should have clarified “all men…

The second chapter of a people’s history of the United States by Howard Zinn is named drawing the color line. In this chapter, Zinn specifically talks about the start and rise of slavery in the United States, and the process through which slavery was able to occur and eventually flourish. At the end of the article, he talks about 6 specific conditions that allowed and were needed for slavery. The profit is depicted in Lao-tzu’s Tao Te Ching and the control is resisted in Frederick Douglass’…