Reclaiming History From Howard Zinn

The Wall Street Journal ^ | May 18, 2019 | Naomi Schaefer Riley

[hinckley buzzard]

Rush Limbaugh has a series of history books for children that has been serving this purpose for years. They are apparently highly popular.

[rlmorel]

Hand salute to you, sir. The gift you give your children is to think for themselves, and there is no money or schooling that can replace what is instilled by a parent...

Nice job!

[hinckley buzzard]

Bush was a history major who had no idea about history. A more obtuse president we may never have had. DU was right about him, sadly enough.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks fieldmarshaldj. I wasn't going to add this to GGG, but since you took the time to ping me...

[thecodont]

You are a good parent!

[LS]

I found this article amazing. Here was a “scholar” reviewer who apparently had never heard of a NYTimes #1 bestseller that is now in its 30th printing; is used in “Classical Conversations”; is in use in 40 colleges and universities; and which is the #1 conservative “textbook” used by homeschoolers everywhere.

Moreover, it was reviewed (favorably) when it came out by the . . . Wall Street Journal.

PHUSA now has sold over 350,000 copies, with half a million copies in print, and will appear in its 4th edition this July (the “Fifteenth Anniversary Edition”).

[LS]

Not for him. We own that market.

[fieldmarshaldj]

I dunno, wouldn’t Howard Zinn qualify for the science-fiction ping list ?

[FreedomPoster]

What, you expect journalist/scholars to be well-informed on their subject matter? How unreasonable!

[nicollo]

When I took over as Dept Chair of my high school’s history department I asked the teachers who were using Zinn to justify it. If they could give me an appropriate pedagogical or curricular use for it, I’d have no objections. None of them could justify using Zinn as there was no alignment with the book to our curricula.

In fact, the only rationale was from a teacher who did not use the book who suggested it be used to advance our historiography goals as an example of hagiography. The other teachers didn’t understand that, so we just threw out the copies on hand.

Btw, Herbert Croly in early 1900s was the Zinn of his day. Zinn isn’t a new phenomenon, just another example of the putrid lust for vengeance against success that seems to be an inevitable corollary to democracy.

[nicollo]

Thanks for posting that link to Ricochet Podcasting. I just subscribed and can’t wait to start consuming. Much appreciated!

[BobL]

If we conservatives continue to support our local ‘wonderful’ public schools and send our kids to these schools, we deserve EXACTLY the kind of indoctrination our kids are getting.

We have only OURSELVES to blame. The public schools get their money from government and will NEVER answer to us, until we’re willing to pull the plug on that cash flow - and since we are not, we lose.

[YogicCowboy]

Thank you!

I will check out both the book and the publisher.

The nation owes a debt of un-thanks to Matt Damon, who single-handedly vaulted the hateful lunatic Howard Zinn into the mainstream with his film, Good Will Hunting.

(I hated that movie: It was a horrendously inaccurate representation of very-high-intelligence persons. That movie made him All Things: handsome, charming, muscular, et cetera, in addition to, oh yeah, being off-the-charts brilliant. It was Damon’s fantasy.)