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Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
Fri Mar 3, 2017, 05:46 PM Mar 2017

Bill introduced to ban Howard Zinn books from Arkansas public schools

The deadline for new legislation is fast approaching and it can't come too soon. Just in from Sen. Rep. Kim Hendren: Legislation to prohibit any publicly supported schools (you, too, charters) from including in curriculum or course materials any books or other material authored by Howard Zinn.

(Actually, anything Zinn wrote before 1959 is not covered.)

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.

He inspired a movie, documentaries and song. Dangerous stuff for the Arkansas student in one legislator's view.

http://m.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2017/03/02/bill-introduced-to-ban-howard-zinn-books-from-arkansas-public-schools

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Bill introduced to ban Howard Zinn books from Arkansas public schools (Original Post) Blue_Tires Mar 2017 OP
That is one of the great books on American history malaise Mar 2017 #1
This Hendren guy is about 80 years old and has probably never read Zinn; too LoisB Mar 2017 #2
Ahh...nothing like a good old fashioned book banning to Make America Great Again... CincyDem Mar 2017 #3
Fucking idiots Solly Mack Mar 2017 #4

malaise

(267,847 posts)
1. That is one of the great books on American history
Fri Mar 3, 2017, 05:49 PM
Mar 2017

It's the equivalent of E.P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class.
Only ahistorical morons would ban that book

LoisB

(7,079 posts)
2. This Hendren guy is about 80 years old and has probably never read Zinn; too
Fri Mar 3, 2017, 06:04 PM
Mar 2017

many pages, no doubt.

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