Howard Zinn Dissident Prof Read-In

Posted October 3, 2013, by Mary Grabar

Miffed by the fact that a layperson, like former Indiana governor and current president of Purdue University, would dare question any history book a history professor or education professor chooses--especially when that book is by the late communist "historian" Howard Zinn--a bunch of professors are organizing a "read-in" of Zinn's bestseller A People's History of the United States at Purdue University and other places on November 5, the birthday of socialist Eugene Debs. Socialist Worker, in weighing in on the controversy, declares "We stand with Zinn."

Purdue philosophy professor Jerry Davitch, former student of Zinn, gave what appears to be a teach-in on Zinn and argued that Daniels's objections amounted to "censorship." Writing in History News Network Norman Markowitz, Rutgers professor of political history who teaches "from a Marxist perspective," presented a defense against all the "right-wingers."

Don't believe Inside Higher Education's presentation of who Zinn was, though. A People's History does not just "describe American history from the perspective black people, women, low-income workers"--unless they happened to be black people, women, and low-income workers who were communists. Actually, the heroes in the book are radical leaders, many of whom came from the elite classes. .....To Read More....