{"id":44148,"date":"2018-07-16T03:00:13","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T07:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=44148"},"modified":"2018-07-14T10:32:58","modified_gmt":"2018-07-14T14:32:58","slug":"deconstructing-zinns-peoples-history-of-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/07\/16\/deconstructing-zinns-peoples-history-of-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Deconstructing Zinn&#8217;s <em>People&#8217;s History of the United States<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Usher took to the Twitters to explain why you shouldn&#8217;t bother reading Howard Zinn&#8217;s ?popular? history book:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Finished Howard Zinn&#39;s &quot;People&#39;s History of the United States&quot;. I do not understand how this came to be thought of as a classic because it&#39;s a terrible work of history.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Alex Usher (@AlexUsherHESA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlexUsherHESA\/status\/1018113745141129217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 14, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Rather than slowing down your page loading speed, here&#8217;s the rest of that Twitter thread as a screen grab:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Alex-Usher-on-Zinns-history.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Alex-Usher-on-Zinns-history.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"832\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Alex-Usher-on-Zinns-history.png 642w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Alex-Usher-on-Zinns-history-116x150.png 116w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Alex-Usher-on-Zinns-history-463x600.png 463w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Alex-Usher-on-Zinns-history-494x640.png 494w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Usher took to the Twitters to explain why you shouldn&#8217;t bother reading Howard Zinn&#8217;s ?popular? history book: Finished Howard Zinn&#39;s &quot;People&#39;s History of the United States&quot;. I do not understand how this came to be thought of as a classic because it&#39;s a terrible work of history. &mdash; Alex Usher (@AlexUsherHESA) July 14, 2018 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,7,53,13],"tags":[86,1020],"class_list":["post-44148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history","category-politics","category-usa","tag-criticism","tag-progressives"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-bu4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44150,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44148\/revisions\/44150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}