"Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress- by Howard Zinn.
The chapter "Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress- tells history from the point of view of history's victims. One significant topic in history that Zinn mentioned was the topic of Christopher Columbus. What I understand from Zinn's explanations that how history was depicted Columbus as a hero when in reality, his attitudes led to the genocide of a population. Zinn presents the major historical facts of the first 250 years of American history starting from when Christopher Columbus's Niña, Pinta, and Santa Maria landed in the Bahamas on October 12, 1492. It was there that Europeans and Native Americans first came into contact; the Arawak natives came out to greet the whites, and the whites were only interested in finding the gold. From the Bahamas, Columbus sailed to Cuba and Hispañola, the present-day home of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Shortly, Zinn tells the history about the discovery of America through the eyes of Arawaks, the captured slaves, and the Cherokees. I think Zinn looks at not only the history of the conquerors, rulers, and leaders; but also the history of the enslaved, the oppressed, and the led.
Zinn focuses on the dominated Native Americans, whom he holds to be at least as advanced as their European masters. He writes: "Columbus and his successors were not coming into an empty wilderness, but into a world which in some places was as densely populated as Europe itself, where the culture was complex, where human relations were more egalitarian than in Europe, and where the relations among men, women, children, and nature were more beautifully worked out than perhaps any place in the world. They were a people without a written language, but with their own laws, their poetry, their history kept in memory and passed on, in an oral vocabulary more complex than Europe's, accompanied by song, dance, and ceremonial drama.
Reaction to Howard Zinn's Writing about Vietnam Zinn gives a complete overview of what happened. ... What I found different was the way Zinn plays a neutral position on the war, leaning a little towards a pacifist. ... I think reading a book about the people that were for the war would make an excellent counter part to Zinn. ...
Henry David Thoreau, Howard Zinn, and Martin Luther King all supported the idea of citizens having a strong voice in government. ... In the same way, Howard Zinn addresses many ideas of a citizens voice being heard. ... In Howard Zinn's essay he addresses many acts of defiance against the government that Thoreau influenced. ... "(5) Like Martin Luther King, Howard Zinn also sided with Thoreau in believing that your senses are more powerful than unjust laws. ... Howard Zinn suffered consequences when his extremely radical ideas caused his works to be banned in State School Systems, i...
After reading Howard Zinn "Some Truths are not Self-Evident," it is clear that the Constitution had some grand ideas but didn't address many issues such as women's rights. ... But as Zinn pointed out, there is nothing enforcing the constitution or consequences for violation of the amendments. ... It is also, like the Bible, easily manipulated, distorted, ignored, and used to make us feel comfortable and protected" (Howard Zinn, Some Truths are Not Self-Evident, pg. 112). Howard Zinn also pointed out that some of the most impactful changes in history came about due to social upri...
In Howard Zinn's 'History is A Weapon', he reexamines the true nature of the American independence war as well as the revolution at the time. According to Zinn and other historical evidences, the was of independence was far less glorious and liberating as the leaders of the war had stated it to be. ... Under the same light, one ought to scrutinize the Declaration of Independence in validating Zinn's arguments. The last sentence from chapter 4 of Howard Zinn's book, "tyranny is tyranny let it com from whom it may" (Zinn, cup 4), concludes his central theme o...
This becomes the pervading point in Howard Zinn's opus, A People's History of the United States. Zinn chronicles disputes between the diverse castes of American society from the landing of Columbus, to the lackluster presidential elections of the Nineteen Nineties. ... (Zinn, A People's History, 519) He had been the voice of the thousands of inmates, who witnessed firsthand the injustices of the American judicial system. ... (Zinn, A People's History, 521) They could no longer tolerate a system in which they were not treated as human beings, and as a last hope had reso...
Cook Reaction to Howard Zinn's Writing about Vietnam Zinn gives a complete overview of what happened. ... What I found different was the way Zinn plays a neutral position on the war, leaning a little towards a pacifist. ... I think reading a book about the people that were for the war would make an excellent counter part to Zinn. ...
And Howard Zinn is historian, he think students should have critically thinking. ... But Zinn argues that student's should learn the mistakes heroes made in the past, even though the heroes made contributed. ... I think from reading (Zinn) book, that he thinks the bad outweighs the good .( Gibbon, "Debate" 139). ... But Zinn argues " I"m not suggesting we trash the past. ... Zinn mean students should think critically enough at past, so they can decide the decision for their own. ...
And Howard Zinn is historian, he think students should have critically thinking. ... But Zinn argues that student's should learn the mistakes heroes made in the past, even though the heroes made contributed. ... I think from reading (Zinn) book, that he thinks the bad outweighs the good .( Gibbon, "Debate" 139). ... But Zinn argues " I"m not suggesting we trash the past. ... Zinn mean students should think critically enough at past, so they can decide the decision for their own. ...
Zinn says, "Two months after the law passes, a Socialist named Charles Shcneck was arrested in Philadelphia for printing and distributing fifteen thousand leaflets that denounced the draft law and the war...Schneck was indicted, tried, found guilty, and sentenced to six months in jail for violating the Espionage Act." ... Howard Zinn says that "Three men were jailed at Fort Riley, Kansas, for refusing to perform any military duties, combatant, or non combatant." ...
