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White House Conference on American History
On Constitution Day, September 17, 2020, posted by Mary Grabar (September 25, 2020): The Dissident Prof had the distinct honor of participating in the White House Conference on American History Day on September 17, 2020. See the panel discussion here (also posted at marygrabar.com under "media"). Before signing an executive order “establishing a national commission to promote patriotic education” President Trump remarked, "We are here today to declare that we will never submit to tyranny. We will reclaim our history and our country for citizens of every race, color, religion, and creed."
And
"The radicals burning American flags want to burn down the principles enshrined in our founding documents, including the bedrock principle of equal justice under law. In order to radically transform America, they must first cause Americans to lose confidence in who we are, where we came from, and what we believe. As I said at Mount Rushmore — which they would love to rip down and it rip it down fast, and that’s never going to happen — two months ago, the left-wing cultural revolution is designed to overthrow the American Revolution."
and
"As many of you testified today, the left-wing rioting and mayhem are the direct result of decades of left-wing indoctrination in our schools. It’s gone on far too long. Our children are instructed from propaganda tracts, like those of Howard Zinn, that try to make students ashamed of their own history."
Save the Children from Howard Zinn, Speaking in Portland
Posted November 25, 2019, by Mary Grabar: Announcing
Book Drive and Portland Talk, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
The Oregon Association of Scholars today launched a book donation drive to counter the fabricated and distorted history of Marxist radical Howard Zinn that has been adopted as an assigned American history textbook in many middle, high school, and college classrooms in Oregon.
Members of the public are being invited to purchase a copy of Dr. Mary Grabar’s new book Debunking Howard Zinn: Exposing the Fake History That Turned a Generation against America (Regnery History, 2019) for donation to a public library or school in Oregon. They may also donate $25 to the OAS which will make the purchase and donation on their behalf.
“Educated Americans have always known of the mendacity of Zinn’s so-called People’s History of the United States,” said Dr. Bruce Gilley, Professor of Political Science at Portland State University and chapter president of the Oregon Association of Scholars. “Now, with Dr. Grabar’s new book, that mendacity is documented in chilling detail, showing the negligence and abuse of Oregon public school and college students forced to read it.”
Read more: Save the Children from Howard Zinn, Speaking in Portland
A College Student's Take on Howard Zinn's America-Is-Evil
By Zachary P. Wilson, Class of 2020, Grove City College; Posted September 23, 2019:
America is evil. The United States has been founded on genocide, slavery, oppression, and imperialism. President Ronald Reagan stated that the Soviet Union was the Evil Empire and now that it has collapsed, the new Evil Empire is the United States of America. These are the words of “historians” at schools and universities around the United States today; they make these claims from what history tells us. This is the reason I became a historian.
This revelation came to me while talking with a friend in junior high, and somehow the conversation of Native Americans and their role in American society came up (like what normal thirteen-year-old boys talk about in their spare time). I was surprised when he told me that America obtained our land by committing mass murder against the Indians, more specifically selling them smallpox-infected blankets in order to weaken them. I immediately thought to myself, “I don’t remember hearing that in my history classes,” but something also told me that this just did not sound right. I had to learn the truth. It was shortly after this event that I came across one of the figures I will never forget: Howard Zinn.
Read more: A College Student's Take on Howard Zinn's America-Is-Evil
Reparations, a History Lesson
Posted by Mary Grabar, June 21, 2019: Alas, not one of the Democrats (or Republicans) at the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties Hearing on Slavery Reparations on June 19 seems to have read my article at FrontpageMagazine, "Reparations Madness." Had they done so, they would have learned that it was the Democratic Party of the FDR administration that instituted the New Deal programs that imposed federal segregation in government-made and financed housing (public housing, the FHA), and discriminated against African Americans in New Deal programs in farming, public works, construction, and Social Security. It was quite a contentious hearing, captured on C-SPAN, with statistics about "disparities" thrown around with great fervor, but no context, historical or otherwise. Nor was a mention made of the black owners of black slaves (in a surprisingly large number, as I pointed out). Instead, Democratic legislators and professors railed on about the "legacy" of slavery to Jim Crow to discriminatory New Deal policies to today.
Zinn Watch, Episode 1
The Arts and Zinn, posted May 16, 2019, by Mary Grabar:
First a belated Happy May Day to all Workers leading students on marches and riots, and those like high school Teacher of the Year finalist James Hensley, inspired by Howard Zinn. The Dissident Prof hopes you had time to recreate before the hard labor of handing out grades and bringing donkeys to exam-stressed students to take in a “critically acclaimed” production of Howard Zinn’s play, Marx in Soho, at the NextStop theater in the Washington, D.C. area, usually performed around the high holiday. Or if not at the Edinburgh Fringe in August.
The people’s historian has also influenced rock bands, rap "artists," and classical musicians. "Homage" will be paid to him by Kronos Quartet at their festival later this month.
Even country music artists have been inspired by Zinn, as evidenced by an interview with Phoebe Hunt, of Phoebe Hunt and the Wanderers, called by Rolling Stone “one of the ’10 country artists you need to know in 2017.’” She is someone the Dissident Prof herself would pay money to hear because she likes Americana, folk music, fiddles, mandolins, and all that. Here’s Phoebe doing a pretty song, “Take Me Home.”
Another one she wrote, “Marching On,” described by Vicki Dean in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune as “powerful,” was inspired “by the plight of Native Americans during the 2016 Standing Rock protests in the Dakotas.” The protests led Hunt to read A People’s History of the United States.
"I would cry myself to sleep a lot because it was just so sad, all the injustices,” Hunt said. “Then one morning I woke up and I wrote all the lyrics to ‘Marching On.’”
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