[Peace-discuss] Shameful attack on Howard Zinn

[C. G. Estabrook]

From - no surprise - The New Republic: <http://hnn.us/articles/rebutting-david-greenbergs-hit-job-howard-zinn>.

As it happens, there has just been published - like a mastodon disinterred from arctic ice - a new example of the sort of historical writing of which Zinn was rightly critical:

"The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600–1675," by Bernard Bailyn. 

Jesse Lemisch, who writes about Zinn above, has this to say about the NY Review's article on Bailyn
"NYRB breaks one of the basic rules of book reviewing, printing a fawning review of Harvard's Bernard Bailyn by one of his former students! This continues NYRB's utter backwardness about US history, with a stable that has included such representatives of the Old Order as Ed Morgan, Vann Woodward, Gordon Wood (another Bailyn student), et al. As it happens, buried deep in the review is a paragraph apologizing for the fact that Indian agency is utterly absent in the book. But, says the reviewer, Bailyn began the multi-volume project in the 1980s, before the discovery of agency. If this is the best that the Bailynites can come up with, it's time to laugh away the whole endeavor -- Bailyn, Harvard, NYRB, etc. -- including the racism of the series title, 'The Peopling of British North America':  

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/apr/04/america-heart-darkness/ 

(Even the review in Harvard magazine expressed some shock about all this.)"

 

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