[9YearLurker]

Zinn has been a pox on the teaching of American history, but he’s right on this point.

[Antoninus]

Zinn has been a pox on the teaching of American history, but he’s right on this point.

You realize what Zinn was doing here, right? His version of history (cherry picked anecdotes that only support his thesis) is meant to be the "correct" version of history. He's training students to think that they are informed when they read his work, and to reject anything other than Zinn-story.