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    1. Jonathan Chait‏Verified account @jonathanchait 23 Sep 2018

      Jonathan Chait Retweeted Slate

      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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      SlateVerified account @Slate
      Teachers and students love Howard Zinn. But A People’s History is as closed-minded as the textbooks it replaces: https://slate.trib.al/vtnmWXJ  pic.twitter.com/jEE89fhHKQ
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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Sep 2018
      Replying to @jonathanchait

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Patrick Iber

      What are your thoughts about mainstream, widely-used textbooks that argue Woodrow Wilson was right to invade Dominican Republic?https://twitter.com/PatrickIber/status/1042093693484892160 …

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      For example, in discussing Woodrow Wilson, Cohen writes: "The people of the Dominican Republic did not respond adequately to military intervention in 1915, requiring Wilson to order the occupation of that country in 1916."
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    3. Jonathan Chait‏Verified account @jonathanchait 23 Sep 2018
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      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.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Sep 2018
      Replying to @jonathanchait

      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.

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        2. David Atkins‏Verified account @DavidOAtkins 23 Sep 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet @jonathanchait

          Agreed. I find it very hard to believe that Zinn is being used as the *sole* textbook for a college course--and even if it is, the course would naturally presume students had already covered the mainstream stuff.

          4 replies 1 retweet 142 likes
        3. Jonathan Chait‏Verified account @jonathanchait 23 Sep 2018
          Replying to @DavidOAtkins @HeerJeet

          I am referring to high school history, not college. Most college courses use multiple texts.

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        1. mkazin‏ @mkazin 23 Sep 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet @jonathanchait

          "Mainstream" historians are nearly all on the left these days Zinn was useful 30 years ago but far better works abound now

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        2. Dan‏ @dankgdl 23 Sep 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet @jonathanchait

          It’s ok, he’s lying about having heard that anyway

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        1. Wilson Dizard‏Verified account @willdizard 23 Sep 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet @jonathanchait

          Considering that most people retain just a fraction of high school history, a book that inserts in their brains the notion that the claims of the powerful deserve suspicion probably isn't that bad.

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        1. איתי‏ @imaoz 23 Sep 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet @jonathanchait

          All history should be taught through multiple lenses. Zin is great because he teaches that all history is political and forces students to confront the biases of everyone including himself. This should start from day 1 with A Young People’s History of the USA.

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        1. RiShawn Biddle‏ @dropoutnation 23 Sep 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet @jonathanchait

          Daft things can happen. But most high schools in the United State are not using Zinn's book. In fact, just three out of 258 undergrad college history courses are using A People's History per this 2015 study (http://www.dancohen.org/files/by_the_book.pdf …) Slate offers no evidence for its assertion.

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