I’m not a fan of Zinn & have never taught the book (as usefully provocative as he was, the work is too simplistic & doesn’t model careful historical reasoning)—but... I do teach a lot of college students & if any had read Zinn, that’s far from their biggest problem.https://twitter.com/jonathanchait/status/1043904365025726467 …
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My absolute favorite of these was a textbook that explained that the main problem with Spanish use of indigenous labor in their silver mining was that they didn't share the profits equitably.

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Agreed, for sure. Zinn gets at why history might really matter and be inspiring.
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Or at least dangerous! Which is probably just as good for getting young people interested in it.
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