In the inaugural episode of The Heartland Institute’s new podcast, Ill Literacy: Books with Benson, Heartland’s Tim Benson talks with Dr. Mary Grabar about her book Debunking Howard Zinn: Exposing the Fake History That Turned a Generation against America.
Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Dr. Mary Grabar to discuss her book Debunking Howard Zinn: Exposing the Fake History That Turned a Generation against America. They discuss the pernicious history of Zinn’s book A People’s History of the United States, Zinn’s merits as a historian, critiques of Zinn’s scholarship from both the Left and Right, and whether Zinn should be considered the intellectual godfather of the 1619 Project and the new wave of neo-iconoclastic Jacobin youths vandalizing American cities.iconoclastic Jacobin youths vandalizing American cities.
[Please subscribe to the Heartland Daily Podcast for free at Apple Podcasts at this link.]SHOW NOTES:
American Educator: Undue Certainty: Where Howard Zinn’s A People’s History Falls Short
Claremont Review of Books: The Disgraceful Howard Zinn
Dissent: Howard Zinn’s History Lessons
The Federalist: How To Replace Howard Zinn’s Communist Account Of U.S. History For American Kids
The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal: A Radical Pseudo-historian Meets His Match
Law & Liberty: Howard Zinn: Fake Historian
The New Republic: Agit-Prof: Howard Zinn’s influential mutilations of American history
Quadrant: Howard Zinn’s Tendentious Mendacity
Washington Times: BOOK REVIEW: ‘Debunking Howard Zinn’
