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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
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
Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922 – January 27, 2010) was an historian and political scientist with a PhD in history from Columbia University who had a long and distinguished career as a professor. As...
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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
Zinn's view of capitalism and industrialists is evident from the title of the chapter itself. He refers to industrialists who skilfully terrace "separate levels of oppression" along the "pyramid of...
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A People's History of the United States
The "muddiest point" in any work is where the greatest amount of questions or confusion arise. Since it is based on an individual's perception, the best I can do is to offer potential areas of...
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A People's History of the United States
Zinn concludes that military action in both Cuba and the Philippines was motivated by conquest and financial gain. However, he argues that the American public better understood the war's objectives...
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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
"War is the health of the state," the radical writer Randolph Bourne said, in the midst of the First World War. Indeed, as the nations of Europe went to war in 1914, the governments flourished,...
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A People's History of the United States
This question refers to Howard Zinn's influential book A People's History of the United States. Zinn suggests that American history books portray World War II as a "people's war" because of the...
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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
"any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or...
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A People's History of the United States
In Chapter 11 of A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn is discussing the late 1800s. As this is the time just before the Progressive Era, he does not discuss the muckrakers, who...
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A People's History of the United States
In Howard Zinn's recount of American history, A People's History of the United State, Chapters 4 and 5 are dedicated to the American Revolution. Zinn characterizes the revolution as a struggle of...
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A People's History of the United States
The Mexican War is the subject of Chapter Eight of A People's History of the United States, and Zinn's narrative of the conflict focuses on the intense opposition to the war among abolitionists and...
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A People's History of the United States
One of the most important themes in Chapters 17 and 18 in A People's History of the United States is that individual action can have profound effects on social and political policy. In chapter 17,...
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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 first thing to do in answering this is to make sure that your instructor has not given you any instructions about what to write about. Have you been given no other instructions other than to...
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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
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
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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History
Chapter 9 of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States is titled "Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom" because it is devoted to the theme of slavery in the United...
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A People's History of the United States
There are examples of irony throughout Chapter Four in A People's History of the United States. Most of the irony centers around how the colonial elite criticize the King of England for his...
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A People's History of the United States
The quote that you cite is found about halfway through Chapter 3 of Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States. Most of the rest of the chapter gives his evidence for this, so there...
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A People's History of the United States
There is not a country in world history in which racism has been more important, for so long a time, as the United States. And the problem of "the color line," as W. E. B. Du Bois put it, is still...
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A People's History of the United States
They found that by creating a nation, a symbol, a legal unity called the United States, they could take over land, profits, and political power from favorites of the British Empire. - Chapter...
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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
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
I assume that you are asking about the task that was imposed upon the natives of the province of “Cicao on Haiti” by Christopher Columbus. This is discussed in Chapter 1 of A People’s...
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A People's History of the United States
The primary myth associated with "Common Sense" was that Paine wrote his document as a simplistic call for the American nation to part with England. The traditional read of "Common Sense" was that...
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A People's History of the United States
As with any question of this type, there will be different answers because everyone has a different metric of what they deem as "important." I invite you to look at what is here and compare it...
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A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn was a polemicist of decidedly left-wing views on politics, foreign policy, and history. He made no effort at concealing his partisanship or biases, and was quite open about the reasons...
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A People's History of the United States
One way that both chapters seven and nine from A People's History of the United States can be summarized is through focusing on the issue of economic power. The analysis of who holds economic power...
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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,...
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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
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
As we are limited in space, below are a few ideas to help get you started. First, let's discuss exactly what a thesis is so you know what you're looking for and can easily find it. A thesis states...
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A People's History of the United States
Please note that answers on this site cannot be more than about 500 words so I can only devote about 160 words to each of these chapters. This means the summaries cannot be extremely detailed. In...
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A People's History of the United States
These seven chapters cover a variety of different subjects. The only thing that they really have in common is that they all tend to support Howard Zinn’s general thesis. In these chapters (as...
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A People's History of the United States
There are many different points that Zinn makes in his analysis of Columbus's entry to the "New World." The first point comes in the opening of the chapter. Zinn makes the point that Columbus's...
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A People's History of the United States
One of Zinn's most critical points is the approach he takes in retelling history. Zinn takes from the Kissinger line that suggests that "history is the memory of states," and develops a more...
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A People's History of the United States
The main idea that comes out of Chapter 14 can be found in its title. Randolph Bourne's notion of "War is the health of the state" suggests that the government and state, as a whole, benefits when...
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A People's History of the United States
It can be argued that a major fallacy that Zinn includes in his presentation of history is through his use of materialism to dictate the unfolding of history. From the opening chapter, Zinn makes...
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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
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
Your first paragraph can begin by introducing Zinn and his quest to revise traditional histories to look at the people's, rather than the state's, point of view. Zinn’s Marxist ideology, dislike...
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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
The major thesis of this chapter is that the American Revolution was fought mainly by the poorer and common people and was overseen by the elites. The elites ensured that the Revolution would be...
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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
In Chapter 4, Howard Zinn is comparing the Founding Fathers to the leaders under British rule because (he says) they were both from the elite class and they both had the same sorts of attitudes...
