Is Howard Zinn's "People's History of the United States" taught in American schools -- for a more balanced treatment of US history?
You obviously have no connection with American schools. Many schools do use Zinn's book (for which he won the Eugene Debs award--maybe he'll get one named for Che Guevara next)--the book that covers Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Japanese internments each more often than it does Pearl Harbor; the one that mentions slavery over 50 times, socialism & communism over 40 times without mentioning free enterprise or the Democrat or Republican parties; that mentions Eugene Debs (ah, there it is!) more than George Washington and so on. Zinn's People's History is history like the People's Republics of communism were republics. It is also the history most taught in our American school systems.
Mr Mark, Hiroshima and Nagasaki must not be used in any comparison with the attack on Pearl Harbor. Slavery, a heinous evil, rightfully should be examined, even if the words "free enterprise" are not mentioned. Zinn is not comparing George Washington with Eugene Debs; he uses the life of Eugene Debs to expose how the American worker was exploited to serve the privileged few.