I found a link from World Net Daily in a Google search result list, talking about Zinn’s book as “revisionist history”, and also linking it to Hollywood (as if Zinn is “in with Hollywood”, a laughable idea). But then, this is World Net Daily. If you are looking for a history book to read about America, may we suggest Paul Continue Reading
Still reading Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, but I happened upon a copy of 1491 at Half Price Books for 5.99, so I grabbed it. I had almost bought a copy at 12.00 just a couple days earlier. The subtitle: New revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. I hope to get some sense of the kind of civilization that Continue Reading
Anyone who tends to hold a diminished view of the capacity that greed holds to distort morality need only look to the history of the American continent. And I mean way back, before the 1400’s when the Europeans arrived. I’m eyeing a book called 1491, which is an archeological/sociological survey of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus, and it Continue Reading