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Feb 22
2010
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For Challenging The History Books, Zinn Found His Place In ThemPosted by: Trainee in MyBlog on Feb 22, 2010 Tagged in: Untagged
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BOSTON — “Think. It’s patriotic,” a bumper sticker once noted. That was Howard Zinn’s challenge to his students and readers. Because once people start thinking, they start asking questions.
“When I got out of school I began to learn things,” he once said. “That’s when you begin to learn. Right? You go to the library. There is nothing like a library.”
What they don’t teach you about our history in schools was the very stuff Howard Zinn considered worth learning. His perspective of American history embraced the standpoint of the unprivileged who didn’t write the history books: the workers, African Americans, slaves, immigrants and Native Americans.
