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Bill Introduced to Ban Howard Zinn Books from Arkansas Public Schools
Max Brantley – Arkansas Times,
6 Mar 2017
Howard Zinn, who died in 2010, was a Ph.D. historian, social activist and more who wrote the best-selling “A People’s History of the United States.” A version for young readers came out in 2007. “It’s not an unbiased account; so what?” Zinn said in the Times interview. “If you look at history from the perspective of the slaughtered and mutilated, it’s a different story.” He inspired a movie, documentaries and song. Dangerous stuff for the Arkansas student in one legislator’s view.
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