My view

So I have started reading this very different view on our nations history. It seems to suck you in and you find yourself agreeing with everything Zinn says. Every once in a while I stop and just think about what I have known for countless years of study in a different variety of history classes to what Zinn is pointing out. The thing is even though Zinn wants to show his audience that for example Columbus ruthlessly killed and enslaved thousands of Indians, he still had the idea to travel west and the belief that the Earth is round. He risked everything to explore new possibilities. Now I am not dismissing his actions with the Native Americans, but Columbus did start a new era of exploration. The question I have is: Where would we be now as the United States of America if Columbus had not done what he did. If the Puritan Elite had not cleared the way in the north. Also, I have spent some time wondering why the Indians in New England did not unit. I know they had spent countless centuries in the past fighting each other, but would not an invasion of "white" Europeans have some effect on the natives? Once again I am not dismissing what happened to the Indians. I believe it was a horrible act of genocide and that every human should understand what took place. I am truly excited to read the rest of this book, it is so interesting to see a viewpoint that so many human beings seem to ignore today.

zinn

Im not sure if we are allowed to blog yet but i find Zinn's point of view very refreshing. The book isnt boring at all for me and its more like reading a story. Its a completely different outlook on history than we have been taught sense little years. I dont agree with a lot of things he says, and thats just because im not a socialist, but i dont hold him against anything for it.