Howard Zinn on Columbus, Mark Twain

Howard Zinn on Columbus, Mark Twain - honesty in history

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Uploaded: April 25th, 2010 (3 years ago)

Segment from Democracy Now aired May 13th, 2009 featuring the great Howard Zinn.

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damon page: James Loewen is a sociologist, not a historian. Many of his claims have been shown to be dubious and he misinterprets. I'll stick with Zinn.

blakieboy94: History being taught in schools really isn't too bad. My junior year at a public high school we learned about the Columbus and his atrocities, the anti imperialist league, and even the alien and sedition acts.

badoocee: Interesting, Thanks for sharing mate.

TheHungarianOak: i did. see above.

TheHungarianOak: its a tale, it contains a lot of truths but the lack of footnotes disqualifies it from being taken seriously as an academic work. if you were a uni student, you could not even use it as a source for your term paper.

badoocee: A People's History of the United States...Great Book.

malcolmvelli: somebody please discredit this guy. he's too good to be true...

Yuri muckraker: interesting he's saying the exact same things another brave principled historian james w. loewen was saying in his book "lies my history teacher told me" hehe! perhaps thats why when i read that book zinn complimented the very book saying all students and history teachers should read it and take examples of it

windstorm1000: fantastic--more people like this needed on planet earth--those who question, who think things deeply before coming to decisions---

Peri Craig: They now range in age from 18 to 25, and although each cuts their own path, they have learned to investigate, to think for themselves, and I am very proud of the people they are, and are becoming. They are all "Paladins" but that's inevitable with a strong ethical compass. I do not credit myself for more than planting the seeds of free thought; they took it from there. They've become people I'd like even if they weren't my children, and will debate to broaden their perspectives.

windstorm1000: And they carve a head of him on Mt.Rushmore-----

windstorm1000: You are a rare parent---you ethically want to get your children to look at history with objectivity. They will be better citizens because of it! And instruments for healing change.

windstorm1000: Mr. Zinn is my hero---he teaches history honestly as it happened. Many people cannot handle that--as they would have to look at their attitudes.

Peri Craig: I homeschooled my children They learned not only History, but Ethics. They need to understand the truth of history so that the same horrors are not revisited.

IndependentMindWoman: I am profoundly sad and upset that an admirable figure like Howard Zinn has past away. I LOVE THIS MAN. HE SPEAKS THE TRUTH.

John D. Sens: I disagree what Mr. Zinn is saying about Mark Twain. While I was in high school back in the 50's I was given a volume of the collected works of Mark Twain that included "To a Person Sitting in Darkness" that gave Twain's observations about the events in what is called the Philipine Insurrection. Anybody who had read much Twain has had to have seen that. I think most people who read also know about Spanish incursions in the Americas.

Zatzzo: whats the name of the song at the end?

imadizzy1: One of my biggest regrets is not seeing him speak 2 weeks before he died. I also rejected an acceptance to BU while he was there, and I was a U.S. history major, which means I blew it, but I did get to take a course with Angela Davis at UC Santa Cruz instead

imadizzy1: His point isn't that TR didn't do anything good, but he is pointing out that internationally, he was a war monger, and a vicious one at that. People's history s meant to be a companion to other U.S. history books telling untold stories, a reader of the book is expected to have a basic understanding of U.S. history, including TR's progressive reforms.

imadizzy1: because it doesn't. National parks are publicly owned. somebody might hyperbolize that China owns everything of ours, but they are just talking about our debt, not actual ownership

billy1212ist: *Why?Is it a part of the NWO that was planned on Sable Island ?Do we OWN land in China Too ?I BELIEVE all that he says,the ppl are just the cattle in history,lied to,well fed,and used.The ignorant,believing in "The Vote",truly a joke.The Bilderberg Group,and such,with their 100,500,and 1000 year plans,just using "us" to get there.The USA,Machine,a front for world Rule.Which is fine with me.to many flags anyway.China,USA,Russia,will take it all over,....SO WHAT..Then the Universe.

billy1212ist: Yes Mr.Zinn,Teddy did that,and YOU SAY,that he was a war monger to YOU.And so ZERO,not a hero,Done.BUT why ,did he do that ?And what happened afterwards? You say nothing of him fighting Congress for National lands to be put aside for us,the future generations,15 million here,30 million there,60 million here 12 million there.Congress said it was a waste,just sell it.A BOOK-"The Big Burn",by Egan.Theo did good things too.

billy1212ist: -My god,,are you shallow.

Tralfaz666: I was at BU when Zinn was still teaching there. One of my great regrets is I never took a course with him but I didn't know much about him at the time nor was I all that politically engaged.

99cacahuate: no wonder the U.S ranks 26th in history compared to other countries...

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