This book changed me from being a "conservative" to a "liberal".... [View all]

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"A Peoples History of the United States"

In fact, it was the opening chapter about the traditional story of Columbus we were taught in school compared to how Zinn tells it, and his subsequent analysis of what history is and how it is taught that captured my attention.

I had never been exposed to that before and I found it fascinating.

The youth of America need to be exposed to this kind of "other" explanation of history, an alternate, more truthful accounting of history that doesn't indoctrinate the ways of empire into our kids' heads - but educates them into critical thinking.