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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
malaise
(267,847 posts)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)many pages, no doubt.