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  title info:
    title: Rethinking America's past
    sub title: Howard Zinn's A people's history of the United States in the classroom and beyond
  name:
    name part: Cohen, Robert
    name part: 1955 May 21-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Murrow, Sonia E.
    name part: 1964-
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gau
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 320 pages, [12] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: No introductory work of American history has had more influence over the past forty years than Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, which since its publication in 1980 sold more than three million copies. Zinn's iconoclastic critique of American militarism, racism and capitalism has drawn bitter criticism from the right, most recently President Trump, who denounced Zinn as a Left propagandist and accused teachers aligned with Zinn of indoctrinating students to hate America and be ashamed of its history. Rethinking the American Past: Howard Zinn's The People's History of the United States in the Classroom and Beyond is the first work to use archival and classroom evidence to assess the impact that Zinn's classic work has had on historical teaching and learning, and upon American culture. This evidence refutes Trump's charges, showing that rather than indoctrinate students, Zinn's book has been used by teachers to have students debate and rethink conventional versions of American history. Rethinking the American Past also explores the ways Zinn's work fostered deeper, more critical renderings of the American past in movies, on stage and television, tracing the origins and assessing the strengths and weaknesses, of A People's History in light of more recent historical scholarship.
  table of contents: Origins and appeal -- Before A people's history -- In high school classrooms : a case study of high school teaching and learning, 1986-2002 -- "Dear Mr. Zinn" : student voices -- Not just for kids -- Teachers : a people's pedagogy -- Retrospectives and reviews -- On stage and screen.
  note: Robert Cohen and Sonia E. Murrow.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Zinn, Howard
      name part: 1922-2010
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Zinn, Howard
      name part: 1922-2010
    topic: Study and teaching (Secondary)
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    topic: Study and teaching (Secondary)
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    topic: Textbooks
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Historiography
  classification: E175.8 .C56 2021
  classification: 973
  identifier: 9780820360331
  identifier: 0820360333
  identifier: 9780820360348
  identifier: 0820360341
  identifier: 9780820360355
  identifier: 2021021083
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 210515
    record change date: 20220218140002.8
    record identifier: in00004550934