Zinn's influential history textbook has problems, says Stanford education expert
Monday, December 24, 2012 - 05:30
in Mathematics & Economics
(Phys.org)—Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States – a radical alternative to established textbooks when it was first published in 1980 – has today become a standard source in how Americans learn about their nation's history. Now an analysis by Stanford University School of Education Professor Sam Wineburg shows how it perpetrates the same errors of historical practice as the tomes it aimed to correct.