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A People's History of the United States
This phrase is the title of Chapter 7 in this book. It is taken from a message that was sent by President Andrew Jackson to the Choctaw and Cherokee Indians when they were going to be moved out of...
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A People's History of the United States
A People's History of the United States is written with an extreme leftist slant. Howard Zinn is strongly biased against capitalism and towards a Marxist interpretation of society and history. The...
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A People's History of the United States
When thinking about Chapter 3, the main thing to remember is that Howard Zinn writes from a Marxist perspective. This fact helps us understand the main idea and thesis of this chapter. In this...
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A People's History of the United States
This sentence is the last sentence of Chapter 4 in the book. In this chapter, Zinn is arguing that the American Revolution was not really the noble effort to create a fair and democratic society...
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A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn’s main argument in this book is that the United States has been a country that has historically abused its working class, along with other groups like women and people of color....
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A People's History of the United States
Zinn's basic argument about World War I is that it was a war that the United States participated in because of the demands of the capitalist classes. Zinn points out that the official rationales...
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A People's History of the United States
Zinn makes the point that slavery had become a practical reality in the new nation and thus impossible to repudiate. The opening of Zinn's writing demonstrates this: The United States...
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A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn chose to write this book because he felt that it was important to put an alternative view of history before the American people. Zinn felt that American history books tell the story of...
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A People's History of the United States
As you say, most histories portray the New Deal as a very important change in government's role in society. The New Deal is seen as the beginning of the modern state that we have now where...
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A People's History of the United States
Chapter 13 describes the rise of a socialist and Progressive critique of society in turn-of-the-century America. A number of factors fueled this critique. Zinn describes popular opposition to the...
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A People's History of the United States
In his fourth chapter titled "Tyranny is Tyranny," of his book A People's History of the United States, author Howard Zinn presents a ground breaking interpretation of motives for the American...
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A People's History of the United States
In "Chapter Two: Drawing the Color Line," Howard Zinn seeks to find answers to two questions: where did American racism originate and what--if anything--can end it. Zinn's main argument is that...
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A People's History of the United States
I think that Zinn would answer that the sacrifice of human progress is the voice of dissent. The narrative that Zinn constructs regarding progress in the United States is one in which every step...
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A People's History of the United States
Most Americans believe the Constitution is—if not a masterpiece—one of history's most important documents, because it established the American democratic system and paved the way for political...
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A People's History of the United States
For Zinn, the irony concerning John Locke was that his advocacy was predicated upon supporting those in the position of economic power. Zinn points out that Locke's ideas of government, popular...
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A People's History of the United States
In Chapter 1, Zinn details the savagery and brutality that Columbus demonstrated to the indigenous people. It is from this point where Zinn's main argument emerges. Zinn wants to liberate the...
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A People's History of the United States
The point of this chapter in Zinn’s book is that the United States government has consistently abused the Native Americans. The title refers to a phrase used by Andrew Jackson in giving...
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A People's History of the United States
There are two main points in Chapter 8 of A People’s History of the United States. You could combine the two and say that the one overarching main point is that the Mexican-American War was a bad...
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A People's History of the United States
The main idea of Chapter 10 is that in an almost forty-year period from 1839 - 1877 there was another Civil War occurring in addition to the one fought between the military forces of the North and...
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A People's History of the United States
Chapter 15 takes a materialist point of view in analyzing the 1920s. Usually, the time period is wrapped in the social element of the flappers, the dances, and speakeasies. Zinn takes the point...
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A People's History of the United States
The answer to this can be found in Chapter 11 of the book. In this chapter, Zinn is arguing that the late 1800s were a time when the "robber barons" and other capitalists dominated the United...
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A People's History of the United States
In chapter 17, entitled "Or Does It Explode?" Zinn basically deals with the civil rights movement, or what he calls the "black revolt" of the mid 20th century. There are many black authors who are...
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A People's History of the United States
What Zinn is talking about here is the ability of the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong (the organized human beings) to defeat the US military (the organized modern technology). Zinn argues that...
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A People's History of the United States
As with most parts of Zinn's book, I think there is an element of truth in Chapter 16, but that it caricatures US actions and ignores the ways in which those actions really did adhere to the values...
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A People's History of the United States
This question is an interesting one and brings up several questions itself. Firstly, what actually is history ? Secondly, what is official history ? Does it differ from unofficial history ?...
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A People's History of the United States
In Chapter 2 of this book, Zinn offers a number of examples of the historical forces that can be said to have caused racism. He does not really offer examples of human decisions. Let us look...
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A People's History of the United States
First, Zinn makes it clear that Columbus and his Spanish backers were motivated primarily by a desire to discover new sources of wealth. This explains their approach to dealing with the native...
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A People's History of the United States
For Zinn, the differences between both the Federalist and the Democratic- Republicans were cosmetic. Both parties were not actively involved in the enlargement of wealth to more people or...
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A People's History of the United States
In Chapter One, Howard Zinn challenges the reader to view the history of the United States through a different lens. Zinn argues that most histories are told through the perspective of the elite....
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A People's History of the United States
Zinn sees "the other civil war" as the conflict between the rich and poor in mid-nineteenth century America. Zinn's "other civil war" is meant to challenge the conventional thinking about the Civil...
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A People's History of the United States
Chapter Six of A People's History is entitled "The Intimately Oppressed." Zinn's focus in this chapter is on the systemic sexism that was fundamental to American society in the antebellum period....
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A People's History of the United States
Both works open with a discussion of the earliest of time periods in American roots and foundations. Both works open with the formation of America as a central part of the thesis in each. From...
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A People's History of the United States
The focus of chapter 5 is the American Revolution. In dubbing it, "A Kind of Revolution," Zinn is able to develop the idea that the American Revolution did not fundamentally transform who owned...
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A People's History of the United States
In A People's History of the United States, Zinn disagrees with Kissinger's vision of history because he feels that it silences the voices of people's experience. Zinn feels that Kissinger's...
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A People's History of the United States
The ultimate fate of the Arawak Indians was to die out. They were killed off by a variety of factors that were connected to the coming of the Spaniards to the New World. In Chapter 1 of this book,...
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A People's History of the United States
Zinn suggests that one reason early reason why Columbus oppressed indigenous people was out of fear of "the other." In landing in what he thought to be India, Columbus initially feared those who...
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A People's History of the United States
The primary thesis that emerges out of the third chapter was that there was a strict hierarchy of power and control in American society. Zinn suggests that the narrative of struggling Colonists...
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A People's History of the United States
In this book, Howard Zinn’s general thesis is that American history is best understood through a Marxist lens. That is, American history has typically been characterized by class conflict....
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A People's History of the United States
As far as I can tell, the sentence you quote does not actually appear in this book. However, it is still relevant to Zinn’s book and to anyone reading it. This is because Zinn can easily be...
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A People's History of the United States
The basic point of Zinn’s argument in this chapter can be seen in the title of the chapter: “Tyranny is Tyranny.” Zinn is arguing that the American Revolution was really just a substitution of...
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A People's History of the United States
In The People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn discusses the issues of slavery in chapter 9, entitled "Slavery without Submission, Emancipation without Freedom." He begins the chapter...
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A People's History of the United States
Chapter Seven of A People's History of the United States deals with the troubled relationship between the United States and Native peoples. Its specific topic is, as Zinn writes, "Indian removal,...
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A People's History of the United States
The labor movements of the 1880s and 1890s were not successful. Initially, riots were spontaneous but the 1880s and 1890s saw massive, organized riots and protests by laborers. This was mostly due...
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A People's History of the United States
Chapter 9 of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States examines slavery, the Civil War, and the Reconstruction era. Zinn traces the limited successes of grassroots abolitionist...
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A People's History of the United States
Chapter 23 is titled "The Coming Revolt of the Guards." Zinn's argument in this chapter is that the middle class—a group long supportive of what he terms the "one percent," which is hostile to the...
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A People's History of the United States
Chapter 20 in this book is about the early 1970s. It argues that these were the years in which the majority of Americans, for the first time, started to hold attitudes that were hostile to the...
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A People's History of the United States
For Zinn, the fundamental argument that establishes the American Revolution was one on economic power and control. Zinn argues that the founding fathers were more concerned about consolidating...
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A People's History of the United States
The answer to this question can be found in Chapter 19 of A People’s History of the United States. This chapter is entitled “Surprises.” The brief answer is that, according to Howard Zinn, the...
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A People's History of the United States
Zinn argues that the national government responds to the Civil Rights Movement by doing just enough to keep the movement from becoming truly revolutionary. He argues that the government...
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A People's History of the United States
The basic theme of oppression as part of the narrative in American History comes out in chapter 7. Zinn opens in discussing how women in the time period represented the most "interior" form of...
