Name
: Endang Siti Nurkholidah
NIM : 14121310285
Class : PBI A/4
A
HISTORY CREATING THE HISTORIAN
(Author:
Endang Siti Nurkholidah)
1.
Introduction
Howard
Zinn. He was American historian who has
written a brilliant idea and moving history of the American people from the
different point of view. He has many talents that he did, because not only
historian, but also he is author, playwright and social activist. He was
politican science professor of Boston University. From 1956 through 1963, Zinn
chaired the Department of History and social sciences in Spelman College. He
participated in the Civil Rights Movement and lobbied with historian August
Meier "to end the practice of the Southern Historical Association of
holding meetings at segregated hotels". Zinn wrote more than 20 books. Yes
of course all of his books is very excellent and seldom have quotations so
effectively used. He always tells an important part of the truth.
Zinn
was known for his history of America through the perspective of “those outside
of the political and economic establishment,” A People’s History of the United
States: 1492-Present (1980, revised 1995). “A People's History of the United States”, the book was publishing in 1980 and only
sold four thousand
copies, now has sold out almost
two million copies and was reprinting five times.
Interestingly, in the Zinn’s book bravery to reveal
the dark side of the new continent's history and commitment to the definition
of the subaltern in Spivak: they are
marginalized in the politics of narrating history. Shooting
targets do not bear the
responsibility: Christopher Columbus
and the historians who write naive version
of the arrival of the colonists. These include Harvard historian Samuel
Elliot Morison.
Now,
this paper offers a critical insight on howard Zinn’s article “Speaking Truth
to Power with Books. Zinn, known after create his book which the contents that
peeling the fact of historical Colombus who found American continent in this
article, he always has a brilliant ideas who can influence the reader. He is
the brave man who always criticizes the truth including Zinn wrote many kinds
of books who can change our mind as a reader. Including in “Speaking Truth to Power with Book” who
tells about Christoper Colombus.
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“ The Truth as Course life of
Howard Zinn”
