Trump Attacks Howard Zinn and the Zinn Education Project -- Defend Teaching People's History Today!

[G_j]

https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/trump-attacks-zinn-and-zep/

On Thursday, Sept. 17, at the White House Conference on American History, right-wing historians took aim at the Zinn Education Project, Howard Zinn, and the New York Times 1619 Project. President Trump said, “Our children are instructed from propaganda tracts, like those of Howard Zinn, that try to make students ashamed of their own history.”

Award-winning Illinois high school U.S. history teacher Corey Winchester disagrees with Trump. Instead of leaving his students paralyzed with shame, he said of the Zinn Education Project’s curriculum, “It is empowering to learn from multiple perspectives and invigorates their desire to learn and disrupt the status quo.”

Winchester is right. Teaching people’s history is about empowering and invigorating students to better understand the perspectives of workers, women, Black, Indigenous, and people of color, whose voices are too often erased in the corporate-produced textbooks.

But Mary Grabar doesn’t want young people to hear those voices.

Grabar, who has written an anti-Howard Zinn book and travels the country attacking Zinn and the Zinn Education Project, said at the White House Conference on American History that Zinn’s writing imposes the false idea that the United States is characterized by “systemic racism, wealth inequality, and police brutality.” Grabar offered no evidence to refute this critique of U.S. society. Instead, in her talk at the White House, she fretted that impressionable readers have been stirred to action by the Zinn Education Project curriculum and Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States, saying, “People reading it cry and get angry, sometimes taking to the streets. The Zinn book was the most popular book for Occupy Wall Street protesters.” We at the Zinn Education Project plead guilty. Teaching “people’s history” can elicit great emotion about oppression and injustice and may inspire people to move to action.


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[LuvNewcastle]

1. RWers don't like to hear real history.

They want our children taught fairy tales about chopping down cherry trees and wrestling bears.

[tulipsandroses]

2. Imagine writing something so important that a president who can't read goes to war with it

Perfect quote from Anand Giridhardas
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[G_j]

4. Perfect

[abqtommy]

3. Oh my, do the reTHUGS all have a sad

Because historical facts make them look bad?
Don't let them loose
to fashion our noose
Don't just get even, GET MAD!

[malaise]

5. Why would anyone take advice on a curriculum from a man who didn't even sit his own

SATs?