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20. Beer, ed., The Communist Manifesto, ix.
21. Ibid., 5.
22. Andrew G. Gardner, “How Did Washington Make His Millions?” CW Journal, winter 2013, http://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/winter13/washington.cfm.
23. David McCullough, 1776 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005), 47, 48.
24. Lebergott, 54–55.
25. Gordon Wood, The American Revolution: A History (New York: Random House, 2002), 59.
26. Ibid.
27. Ibid., 23, 28, 37–38, 31–32.
28. Ibid., 51.
29. Ibid., 61.
30. Jason Willick, “Polarization Is an Old American Story,” Wall Street Journal, February 2, 2018, https://www.wsj.com/articles/polarization-is-an-old-american-story-1517613751.
31. Howard Zinn, interviewed by Robert Birnbaum, “Howard Zinn on A People’s History of American Empire,” Identity Theory, October 1, 2008.
32. Wood, The American Revolution, 93.
33. Zinn, A People’s History, 96.
34. Beer, ed., The Communist Manifesto, 29, 32.
35. Ibid., xxv.
36. William Z. Foster, Outline Political History of the Americas (International Publishers, 1951), 130; like Zinn, Foster selectively quotes and spins from Morison and Commager’s textbook.
37. Howard Zinn, “The Uses of Scholarship,” originally published as “The Case for Radical Change,” in Saturday Review, October 18, 1969, republished in On History (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2001), 177–88.
38. Beer, ed., The Communist Manifesto, 46.
39. John Hinderaker, “Mitch Daniels, Hero (with Comment from Steve),” Powerline, July 17, 2013, https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2013/07/mitch-daniels-hero.php.
40. “An Open Letter to Mitch Daniels from 90 Purdue Professors,” Academe Blog, July 23, 2013, https://academeblog.org/2013/07/23/an-open-letter-to-mitch-daniels-from-90-purdue-professors/.
41. Sam Wineburg, “Undue Certainty: Where Howard Zinn’s A People’s History Falls Short,” American Educator Winter 2012/2013, 27–34.
42. Jennifer Schuessler, “Historians Defend Howard Zinn against a Former Governor’s Critique,” New York Times, July 29, 2013, https://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/29/historians-defend-howard-zinn-against-a-former-governors-critique/?_r=1.
43. Michael Kazin, “Howard Zinn’s History Lessons,” Dissent, Spring 2004, https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/howard-zinns-history-lessons.
44. Michael Kazin, “What Mitch Daniels Doesn’t Know about History,” Academe Blog, July 18, 2017, https://academeblog.org/2013/07/18/what-mitch-daniels-doesnt-know-about-history/.
45. Robert Paquette, “Mitch Daniels Unmasks Howard Zinn’s Propagandizing,” See Thru Edu. August 5, 2013, http://www.seethruedu.com/updatesmitch-daniels-unmasks-howard-zinns-propagandizing/.
46. “AHA Releases Statement,” Perspectives on History, July 19, 2013, https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/summer-2013/aha-releases-statement; “OAH Responds to Recent Concerns of Academic Freedom,” July 25, 2013, http://www.oah.org/programs/news/oah-responds-to-recent-concerns-of-academic-freedom/.
47. Indiana Academe: Newsletter of the Indiana Conference of the American Association of University Professors, http://www.inaaup.org/newsletters/AAUP_NewsletterF13.pdf.
48. “Howard Zinn ‘Read In’ at Purdue Draws a Crowd,” USA Today, November 6, 2013, http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/11/06/howard-zinn-read-in-mitch-daniels/3460615/.
49. Max Brantley, “Bill Introduced to Ban Howard Zinn Books from Arkansas Public Schools,” Arkansas Times, March 2, 2017, http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2017/03/02/bill-introduced-to-ban-howard-zinn-books-from-arkansas-public-schools.
50. “Hundreds of Arkansas Teachers Request Howard Zinn’s A People’s History, Zinn Education Project, March 16, 2017, https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/arkansas-teachers-want-teach-peoples-history/.
51. Oscar Handlin, Truth in History (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1979), 4–5.
52. Author interview of Eugene Genovese, September 1, 2010, Atlanta, Georgia.
53. David Greenberg, “Agit-Prof: Howard Zinn’s Influential Mutilations of American History,” The New Republic, March 19, 3013, https://newrepublic.com/article/112574/howard-zinns-influential-mutilations-american-history.
54. Bill Bigelow, “The People vs. Columbus, et al.,” A People’s History for the Classroom (the Zinn Education Project, 2008), 21–23.
INDEX
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A
abolitionists, 49, 92, 109–110. See also abolitionist movement
abolitionist movement, 92. See also abolitionists
Accuracy in Academia, xxv
ACLU, 53, 127, 155
ACORN, 59
Advanced Placement (AP) exams, xix, xxxii
Affleck, Ben, xxii
African Americans, xxxv, 116, 132–33, 167, 169–70, 173, 177, 179, 182, 186–88, 191, 194, 197
Age of Discovery, 63
agriculture, 7, 76, 86, 90–91
Allen, Michael, xii, 119–20, 228, 231
Allies, the, xviii, 114–15, 129, 132–34, 153, 207
Ambrose, Stephen, xx–xxii, 261
American Association of University Professors (AAUP), 48–50, 253
American Educator, xxiv, 254
American founding, 242, 251
American Historical Association (AHA), xxi, xxxvii–xxxviii
American Historical Review, 23, 49
American history, ii, xi–xiv, xxii, xxiv, xxvii, xxxi, 4, 10, 27, 29–30, 34, 36, 53, 56, 61, 73, 86, 89, 114, 129, 148, 170, 196, 250, 253, 261
American Labor Party (ALP), 39, 42
American Revolution, 5, 15, 35, 91, 99, 241, 249, 257. See also Revolutionary War
American Textbook Council, xxii
anarchism, 56
anti-Communism, 157, 174
Antifa, 1
anti-Semitism, 116, 121
Arawaks, xiii, xxxii, 4, 6–7, 10, 12, 17, 21, 24–25, 29, 33, 61, 63, 69–70, 250. See also Taino
Arnove, Anthony, xxvii, 256
Asada, Sadao, 137–38
Atlanta University, 45–46, 50
Auschwitz, 64, 127, 134–35
Axis powers, 129
Aztecs, 63–64
B
Bailey, Thomas, 27, 114, 118, 120
Baker, Ella, 47, 179
Barton, David, xxv, 256
Beard, Charles, 245–47, 251
Bellesiles, Michael, xx–xxii, xxxvii
Bennett, Martellus, xxvii
Bentley, Elizabeth, 151
Berle, Adolf, 159–60
Bertrand, Louis, 11
Bill of Rights Institute, xxxi
Black Lives Matter, xxvi
Black Panthers, xxx, 54, 198
Block Island, 70, 72–73
Boston University, xxv, 51–56, 96, 232, 234, 262
bottom-up history, xxiii, xxxiii, 250
bourgeois, 84, 110, 169, 172, 242, 252. See also middle class
Bradford, William, 72
Brébeuf, Jean de, 77
Brooklyn, 31, 38, 41–42, 86
Brown, John, 105, 253
Brown, Robert E., 245
Buckley, William, 150, 152–53, 156
Busboys and Poets, xxx
Bush administration, 59
Buxton, Jim, xx
C
Calley, William, 225–26
cannibalism, 82, 162
capitalism, xiv, 6, 15, 29, 41, 54, 83–86, 90–93, 133, 189, 200, 205
Caribs, 10, 26–27
Carmichael, Stokely, 193–94
Casas, Bartolomé de Las, x
xvii, 4–6, 9, 15–16, 18–23, 67, 75
Castro, 164
Catholic Church, 6
Chamberlin, William Henry, 150, 153
Chambers, Whittaker, 149, 151, 159–60
Cherokees, xxxii, 24
Chiang, Kai-shek, 140, 153–54, 207
Chomsky, Noam, 8, 223, 234
Christianity, 6, 11, 14, 22, 92, 111
Chronicle of Higher Education, xxxv
Civil Rights Movement, xx, xxix, xxxvi, 38, 41–44, 179, 195, 232
Civil War, xxxii, 5, 9, 24, 91–92, 104, 110–11, 113, 116, 141, 143, 252
climate change, xxx
Clinton, Bill, 34, 60
Cohen, Robert, 51–52
Cold War, 137, 139–40, 148, 156, 161–63, 188
Collard, Andrée M., 19–20, 22
College Board, xix
colonists, 19, 28, 66–70, 72–75, 81, 242, 247–48
Columbia University, 4, 38, 41, 45, 57, 152
Columbus Day, xxvii, xxx, 1–3, 8–9, 11, 22, 60
Columbus, Christopher, xiii, xviii, xxvi–xxvii, xxx, xxxiv, 1–34, 60–61, 63, 65, 70, 75–77, 81, 83, 86, 250, 258
Columbus: His Enterprise: Exploding the Myth, 5–6, 8–9
Commager, Henry Steele, 27–28, 45, 251
Committees of Correspondence for Socialism and Democracy, 59
Communism, xiv, 13, 86, 139, 142, 147, 150, 153, 157, 159, 164–65, 169, 174–75, 180, 182, 207, 211, 223–24, 228, 236–37, 261–62. See also Communists
Communist China, 155, 224
Communist Manifesto, The, 84, 163, 246, 250, 252
Communist Party USA (CPUSA), 39, 41–43, 57, 60, 86, 115, 150, 153–54, 156, 158, 163, 175, 181, 184, 187, 251
Communists, 17, 23, 35, 39–43, 77, 141, 145, 147–57, 162–63, 169–72, 174–75, 180–82, 184–87, 191, 203, 206–7, 209–10, 212, 214–15, 217–21, 223–24, 226–27, 229–31, 237–38, 250, 252, 257. See also Communism
concentration camps, 117, 124, 156–57
Confederacy, 67, 78, 106–7. See also Confederates
Confederates, 106–7. See also Confederacy
Constitution, xxxi, xxxii, 24, 29, 36, 40, 103–4, 107–8, 201, 234, 244–47, 249, 251
Cortés, Hernán, 21, 61, 63–64, 68–69, 75–76
Cosby, Bill, xxxi
Countryman, Edward, 15
Crusade, 13–14
Cuba, 18, 25–26, 28, 39, 92, 117, 164
Cullen, Countee, 168–69
cultural absolutism, 68
Currie, Lauchlin, 153–54, 158–59
D
Daily Show, The, xxvi
Daisey, Mike, xxvii
Damon, Matt, xviii, xxii, 247
Daniels, Mitch, xxxii, xxxvii, 234, 253–55
Declaration of Independence, 36, 98, 103–4, 204, 209, 239, 245, 251
Degler, Carl, xxxiii–xxxiv
Delinger, David, 57
Democratic Socialists of America, 59
Depression, the, 41, 57, 113
Destruction of Dresden, The, xxi, 134
discrimination, xxxiii, 116, 177–79, 188–89, 193, 196, 252
Dissent Magazine, xxiv
Dobbs, Zygmund, 43
domino theory, 211
Douglass, Frederick, 97–98, 103–4, 110–11, 258
Draper, Theodore, 169, 214
Dresden, xxi, 133–34, 185
Du Bois, W. E. B., 90, 172–73, 182–83
Duberman, Martin, 34, 43, 48–51
Dunbar, Les, 182
Dunn, Brandon, xxviii, xxix
Dunn, John M., xix, xxxi
E
East Asia, 11, 141, 146
East Indies, 11, 120, 150
Eastern Europe, 94, 135, 139, 153, 164, 203
Edelman, Marian Wright, xxvi, 47, 180
Ellis, Joseph, xx–xxii
Ellsberg, Daniel, 58, 210, 221, 226, 239
Elzie, Johnetta, xxvi
Emancipation Proclamation, 107–8
Emory University, ii, xx, xxi, 261–63
Engels, Friedrich, 40, 84–87, 163, 242, 246
Englistan, xxvi
equal rights, 36, 46, 116, 165
Eritrea, 100
Espionage Act, 210
Establishment, the, xii, 34, 241, 251–52
ethnocentrism, 80
Europe, xxxv, 9, 14, 22, 37, 65, 81, 90, 92, 94, 96, 119, 121, 135, 138–40, 142, 144, 147, 153, 163–64, 180, 198, 203, 207, 243
Evans, Richard J., xxi, xxxvii, 151, 153, 258
Even the Rain, xxvi
Executive Order 8802, 177–78
Executive Order 9066, 123, 126
Executive Order 9981, 179
F
Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC), 176–77
Fascism, xiii, xxv, 115, 118, 122, 124, 138, 149, 206
Feingold, Henry, 121
feminism, xxxiii, 253. See also feminist
feminist, 17, 78–79. See also feminism
Ferdinand, King, 7, 9, 16
Fernández-Armesto, Felipe, 10, 26
feudalism, 65, 90
Fish, Hamilton, 116, 129, 178
Flynn, Daniel, xxv
Fogel, Robert William, 101–2
Foner, Eric, xii, xxiii
Fort Mystic, 72
Fort Navidad, 16–17
Fort Saybrook, 71–72
Fort-Whiteman, Lovett, 175–76
Foster, William Z., 60, 86–87, 150, 163, 183, 251–52
Founding Fathers, 29, 35, 250–51
free enterprise, 129
Freeman, Joshua, 130–31
French Revolution, 204, 209, 244
Friedan, Betty, xxxiv
Fuchs, Klaus, 149, 158
G
Gaddis, John Lewis, 140–42, 146
Garrison, William Lloyd, xviii, 17, 26, 103–4
Gaulle, Charles de, 158, 206–7
Gay, Rudy, xxvii
Geneva agreement, 213–14
genocide, xviii, 9–10, 21, 23, 30, 76, 258
Genovese, Eugene, xxiii, 31, 257–58, 262
Georgetown University, xxiv
Glasser, Harold, 150–51, 153
Goldman, Emma, xxviii
Good Will Hunting, xvii, xxii, 247
Goodwin, Doris Kearns, xx–xxii
Graze, Stanley, 151–52
Great Depression, xxvii
Greece, 90, 142–44, 148, 154, 211
Green, James, xxxv, 3
Grenville, Richard, 65
Guardia, Fiorello La, xxxvi
gun control, xxi
gun ownership, xxi
H
Hamilton, xxviii
Hamilton, Alexander, xxiv, 100, 113, 128, 242
Hampton, Fred, xxviii
Handlin, Oscar, xxv, xxxiv–xxxvii, 73, 77, 213, 227, 253–54, 256–57
Hanson, Victor Davis, 64, 114, 120, 129, 134–35
Harlem Renaissance, 167–68
Harvard, xii, xvii–xviii, xxiv–xxv, xxxiv–xxxv, 23, 31, 49, 68, 120, 155, 168
Haynes, John Earl, 41, 149–52, 155, 157–60, 175
Hendren, Kim, xxxii, 256
Herndon, Angelo, 169–72, 176
Herodotus, xxxix
Higgins, Andrew Jackson, 129
Hirohito, 136–37
Hiroshima, xiii, 57, 133, 136, 138, 163
Hiss, Alger, 149, 153, 159–60
History News Network (HNN), xxv
Hitler, Adolf, xiii, xxi, xxxvii, 9, 48, 113, 118–19, 122, 132, 134, 140, 172
Ho, Chi Minh, 141, 146, 204–9, 212, 214–16, 236, 239
Hodges, Cam, xxvii
Hoffer, Peter Charles, xxxvii
Hofstadter, Richard, 45, 57, 104, 109
Holocaust, xx, xxi, 119, 125, 134
Holtzman, William, 53
Hoover, J. Edgar, 123
Horowitz, David, I, 156, 174, 198–99
House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC), 57, 149, 156, 181–82
Hudson, Hosea, 169–72
Hughes, Langston, 57, 16
9, 175
Huk Rebellion, 147
Hurons, 81–82
I
immigration, xxxiv–xxxv
Imperial Japan, 113
imperialism, xiii, xxvi, 10, 22, 115, 138, 147, 205–6, 223–25
Indian culture, xxxiii, 77, 81
Indigenous Peoples’ Day, 2
Indochina, 58, 141, 145–46, 204–7, 211, 214, 223–24
industrialization, 150
Institute of Pacific Relations (IPR), 154, 181
Institute on the Study of Violence, xx
intellectual fascism, xxv
Internal Security Act, 157
International Legal Defense (ILD), 183–86
International Socialist Organization, 59
internment camps, 124–26, 128
Iroquois, 77–82, 84
Irving, David, xx–xxiii, xxxvii, 134, 258
Isabella, Queen, 7, 9, 11, 16
Islamic law, 95
Islamophobia, xxx
J
Jamestown, 67, 89
Japan, 113–14, 117–18, 120–21, 124, 128–29, 135–38, 206–8, 222–23
Jefferson Lies, The, xxv, 256
Jennings, Francis, 70, 73–74
Jerusalem, 14
jihad, 11
Jim Crow, 176, 178–79, 183
Johnson, Richard R., 74–75
Johnson, Lyndon, 58, 118–19, 193–95, 199, 225, 228
Jones, Howard, 139, 142, 144–45
K
Kammen, Michael, xxiii, xxxiii
Kazin, Michael, xxiv, xxxiii, 29, 252, 254–56
Keegan, William F., 16–17
Kennedy, John F., 29, 35, 155, 164–65, 180, 192, 194, 222, 224, 231, 250
Khrushchev, Nikita, 43, 141
Kim, Il-sung, 141, 146
King Philip’s War, 67, 74
King Jr., Martin Luther, xxvii, 191, 195, 198–99, 263
Klehr, Harvey, ii, 150–52, 158–60, 175, 261
Koch Foundation, xxxi
Koning, Hans, 5–11, 13–16, 18, 21, 23, 26–27, 73, 77
Kousmate, Seif, 100
Ku Klux Klan (KKK), 156, 183, 187, 199
Kuklick, Bruce, xxxiii
Kysia, Alison, xxx
L
labor movement, xxx, 41
Lady Bird, xxix
Latin America, 10, 24, 117