I majored in European History, and would not make a comment on American History, although I took much American history as an undergraduate and graduate student. Pop History is seldom worth reading. Peer reviewed history is, even if you disagree with it. Dianne

BTW Thanks for visiting my math blog.

I mean: a simple-minded pro-Zinn crowd that gets the implication wrong

You would do yourself justice by providing some more analysis here. Take the case of Zinn’s book. It deals with unpleasant ?facts? about American history. History is written by the victors, so your short-sighted comments might be easily dismissed by a pro-Zinn crowd.

On the other hand, as a pragmatic conservative, I worry about nowadays post-modern relativism and Western self-hatred (which is far worse in Europe btw), which I suspect to be caused partly by such textbooks as Zinn’s.
But maybe we cannot dismiss their content on factorial correctness (as seems the case?), but should rather focus on its failure to compare atrocious behavior by other regimes etc (if they want to be relativistic anyway)? This is such an interesting case study, I would love to get some more insight in this.

My sincere apologies to the few commenters that actually did discuss the historical content of some of the book discussed here. In general, I was rather disappointed after reading all comments.

Ya, I have gathered some research on the Texas School Board… That will be another discussion, for another date…