The Historian Teaching Your Kids to Hate America: The Truth About Howard Zinn | Dr. Mary Grabar (Repost)

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Dan Crenshaw

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🗓️ 14 October 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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In honor of Columbus Day, we’re reposting a Hold These Truths classic from 2020 with historian Dr. Mary Grabar:

You may have never heard of him, but no historian has had a greater influence on modern America than Howard Zinn. His most popular work, A Peoples History of the United States, was brought into the cultural mainstream with Matt Damon's Oscar winning 1997 film Good Will Hunting. The book is a precursor to the 1619 Project - tracing the roots of America's sins and inequities to Christopher Columbus' 1492 voyage and the rise of capitalism.

So for Columbus Day, we invited Dr. Mary Grabar, a historian and author of "Debunking Howard Zinn: Exposing the Fake History That Turned A Generation Against America", to join us for an objective look at Zinn's perspective on American history, his motivations for attacking the USA and capitalism, and the ramifications of his influence on generations of academia.

Dr. Mary Grabar is an author and a resident fellow at the The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization. She is also the founder of the Dissident Prof Education Project. Follow her on Twitter at @MaryGrabar.

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0:00.0	We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created.
0:04.3	As a member of Congress, I get to have a lot of really interesting people in the office.
0:07.3	Experts on what they're talking about.
0:08.9	This is the podcast.
0:10.2	For insights into the issues.
0:11.6	China, bioterrorism, Medicare for all,
0:14.2	in-depth discussions, breaking it down into simple terms.
0:17.9	We hold, we hold these truths.
0:20.1	We hold these truths.
0:21.3	With Dan Krenshaw.
0:22.2	The eagle has landed.
0:24.0	You want to read a real history book.
0:26.0	Read howids in people's history of the United States.
0:28.0	That book will fucking knock you on your ass.
0:30.0	So there you heard it from Matt Damon,
0:34.2	Matt Damon, big intellectual of course of our times,
0:39.9	well at least he plays sort of one in Goodwill Hunting.
0:43.8	Of course he's good at math in that movie, not necessarily.
0:47.0	Well versed in the context of history
0:51.0	and what makes up Western civilization, which he is a part, whether he likes it or not.
0:57.1	Turns out, he grew up down the streets, I think, from Howard Zen, which maybe might explain his obsession with him both in character and in real life.
1:07.9	So we wanted to explore who Howard Zen is.
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