With the adoption of The United States Constitution on September 17, 1787, the United States was founded, born, established. Not when Columbus came ashore. This manufactured U.S. history to 1492 is irksome and seemingly contrived. If history is to be treated honestly that far back, I expect Zinn to take the European nations to task as well. Not just the personality of Christopher Columbus, but colonial Europe in its entirety. Or, treat history honestly in the context of the U.S.’s existence and not in the context of his gripes with western civilization which has so richly rewarded him. If there is to be a treatment of slavery, discuss the Africans who sold fellow Africans to Dutch, English and Portuguese traders. Is the people’s history or one malcontent’s view from the safe distance of his privileged position? What was Columbus really guilty of? The indigenous peoples of the Americas were certainly aggressive enough amongst themselves and engaged in similar acts of war and con...

I read Dr Kazin's critique and I have to admit that he is correct in a very narrow sense. Mr Kazin does fail to point out the failings of the left. Of course it may be that he gave his readers credit for being aware of those failings, or perhaps he simply relied on the likes of Dr Kazin to do so ad nauseum. His thesis that the only time that the American proletariat took the bit in its teeth and really threatened the establishment was at the turn of the last century remains valid. Much of the history of the twentieth century is the story of that revolt being systematically crushed. The result is our present pathetic situation.

"Much of the history of the twentieth century is the story of that revolt being systematically crushed. The result is our present pathetic situation."

Well, if they were so easily crushed, they could not have had much support. I'll presume you mean "our present pathetic situation" the result of us having elected this idiot Obama. I can't imagine you mean that we're pathetic for being the richest nation in man's history...the result of Capitalism, by the way!

Hello Ms. Burns-

I'm really enjoying your blog so far. That said, the key to coming to terms with Zinn and his writings is fairly simple. I believe he states at the very beginning of "A People's History" that his telling is going to be biased. I don't think he was seeking to fit into any mainstream academic notion of what a historian is supposed to be. The book reads as an indictment of man's inhumanity to man for the sake of societal progress in the context of American history. Nothing more or less. To expect more out of it is to miss the point.

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