The fifth episode, “Howard Zinn, Hollywood, and the Fairy Tale of American Evil,” covers the influence of the late Howard Zinn. Zinn was a far-left historian and political activist best known for writing A People's History of the United States, one of the most influential history books in secondary and higher education. A member of the American Communist Party at the time when Stalin enslaved half of Europe, Zinn ignored this colonialism by focusing A People's History of the United States on the supposed horrors of American history since Columbus. Zinn's account paints a false and simplistic caricature of America's origins that has spread throughout Hollywood and our culture…
To learn more about Howard Zinn, check out the following links:
A Peoples History of the United States – https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062693013/a-peoples-history-of-the-united-states/
Zinn website – https://www.howardzinn.org/
Zinn Educational Project – https://www.zinnedproject.org/
/"The Problem Is Civil Disobedience/" by Howard Zinn (read by Matt Damon and others) – http://historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/zinnproblemobedience.html
InfluenceWatch entry – https://www.influencewatch.org/person/howard-zinn/
Criticism of the right against Zinn:
Debunking Howard Zinn – https://www.regnery.com/9781621577737/debunking-howard-zinn/
The Washington Examiner on Zinn's Communism – https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/aside-from-that-he-was-also-a-red
/"Reclaiming History from Howard Zinn/" from The Wall Street Journal – https://www.wsj.com/articles/reclaiming-history-from-howard-zinn-11558126202
Left-wing criticism of Zinn:
/"Agit-Prof/" from the New Republic – https://newrepublic.com/article/112574/howard-zinns-influential-mutilations-american-history
Dissent Magazine Expose – https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/howard-zinns-history-lessons
American Federation of Teachers review: https://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/periodicals/Wineburg.pdf
Zinn's left defense:
Zinnophobia – https://www.amazon.com/Zinnophobia-History-Education-Politics-Scholarship/dp/178535678X/refsr_1_1?keywords9781785356797&linkCodeqs&qid1576772373&sbooks&sr1-1
The Architects of Woke is animated and directed by filmmaker Rob Montz. Montz is the co-founder and CEO of Good Kid Productions. His online documentary work has attracted millions of views and coverage in major media outlets, including The Economist, USA Today, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Adam Carolla Podcast. His 2017 documentary “Silence U. PT 2: What Has Yale Become?” », published on We the Internet TV, won the Reason Video Prize 2018.
You can watch previous episodes of Architects of Woke at the following links:
The War on Science by Judith Butler: https://youtu.be/yus0cmyRZWM
Slavoj Žižek and the novel of revolutionary terror: https://youtu.be/mcS7jggHGCI
Chapo Trap House and the Marxist avant-gardes for alienated millennials: https://youtu.be/l4knok5jf4Q
Stokely Carmichael and racism without racists – https://youtu.be/SRC2qyn4pyg
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