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''A People's History of the United States'' does not incorporate the newer theories of history, but provides an energetic heavy-handed attack on conservatives, business, and white men.  His book is stuck in 1950, methodologically, and does not appreciate the scholarship of the last 4 decades in the "new" intellectual, political, economic, diplomatic, military, cultural or social history. His "newest" ideas are that the white male "working class" -- as well as blacks, Indians, and women -- are victims of capitalism, a stock notion of 1930s [[Socialism|socialist]] philosophy regarding workers.  

''A People's History of the United States'' does not incorporate the newer theories of history, but provides an energetic heavy-handed attack on conservatives, business, and white men.  His book is stuck in 1950, methodologically, and does not appreciate the scholarship of the last 4 decades in the "new" intellectual, political, economic, diplomatic, military, cultural or social history. His "newest" ideas are that the white male "working class" -- as well as blacks, Indians, and women -- are victims of capitalism, a stock notion of 1930s [[Socialism|socialist]] philosophy regarding workers.  

Standford professor Sam Wineburg is critical of Zinn's research, citing many examples<ref>[http://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/periodicals/Wineburg.pdf] Samuel Wineburg, "Undue Certainty"</ref>  in Zinn's "A People's History..."  that  (as reviewer David Plotnikoff states) show he "perpetrates the same errors of historical practice as the tomes it aimed to correct," that  "Zinn's desire to cast a light on what he saw as historic injustice was a crusade built on secondary sources of questionable provenance, omission of exculpatory evidence, leading questions and shaky connections between evidence and conclusions."<ref>[http://news.stanford.edu/news/2012/december/wineburg-historiography-zinn-122012.html] Zinn's influential history textbook has problems, says Stanford education expert}}</ref>   

Standford professor Sam Wineburg is critical of Zinn's research, citing many examples<ref>[http://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/periodicals/Wineburg.pdf Samuel Wineburg, "Undue Certainty"]</ref>  in Zinn's "A People's History..."  that  (as reviewer David Plotnikoff states) show he "perpetrates the same errors of historical practice as the tomes it aimed to correct," that  "Zinn's desire to cast a light on what he saw as historic injustice was a crusade built on secondary sources of questionable provenance, omission of exculpatory evidence, leading questions and shaky connections between evidence and conclusions."<ref>[http://news.stanford.edu/news/2012/december/wineburg-historiography-zinn-122012.html Zinn's influential history textbook has problems, says Stanford education expert]}</ref>   

Daniel J. Flynn is likewise critical of the work of Zinn, charging him with biased history, citing, among other things, that,  

Daniel J. Flynn is likewise critical of the work of Zinn, charging him with biased history, citing, among other things, that,  

Meanwhile, Zinn  portrays the  American Revolution as creating "the most effective system of national control devised in modern times, and showed future generations of leaders the advantages of combining paternalism with command.”<ref>[http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/1493 Howard Zinn's Biased History</ref>

Meanwhile, Zinn  portrays the  American Revolution as creating "the most effective system of national control devised in modern times, and showed future generations of leaders the advantages of combining paternalism with command.”<ref>[http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/1493 Howard Zinn's Biased History</ref>

Zinn's motivation for his radical point-of-view presentation of history appears to have formally begun with an event at an early age. When he the age of 17 he attended a Times Square political rally where was knocked senseless by police. As a result, Zinn stated that, "I was no longer a liberal, a believer in the self-correcting character of democracy. I was a radical, believing something was fundamentally wrong with this country."<ref> Howard Zinn, "The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy," p. 158</ref>

 

Zinn's motivation for his radical point-of-view presentation of history appears to have formally begun with an event at an early age. When he the age of 17 he attended a Times Square political rally where was knocked senseless by police. As a result, Zinn stated that, "I was no longer a liberal, a believer in the self-correcting character of democracy. I was a radical, believing something was fundamentally wrong with this country."<ref>Howard Zinn, "The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy," p. 158</ref>

   

   

It has been pointed out{{who says}} that, consistent with the decontextualized analysis Zinn often engages in, he himself could be considered to be a villainous, arbitrary murderer of women and children, as he served in the United States Air Corps during World War II on a bomber crew.  

It has been pointed out{{who says}} that, consistent with the decontextualized analysis Zinn often engages in, he himself could be considered to be a villainous, arbitrary murderer of women and children, as he served in the United States Air Corps during World War II on a bomber crew.