I've heard many students say Howard Zinn's People's History is the central/sole textbook in their history course. That's a very bad practice.https://twitter.com/Slate/status/1043832455357190144 …
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Not familiar with those, but nothing in my tweet implies that using Zinn as a primary textbook is the only problem in the teaching of American history.
There's a lot I disagree with in Zinn & I wouldn't use him as a sole text book, but his book is a useful foil for mainstream historians, bringing to the fore stuff that they ignore or whitewash. Mainstream plus Zinn seems like fair course.
I hope they teach McPherson in US schools. Though I’ve got my doubts.
Yeah seriously. Let’s talk about how mainstream textbooks cover the Spanish-American war.
Cohen seems to be making the opposite point — in a sarcastic, Rod Rosensteinian-like manner.
damn this as good as the dude whse 99 year old Nazi grandad who hated anti-fa
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