I’m told A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn is a good one though the bourgeois revolution isn’t the total focus. Haven’t read it though.
I have however, read An Indigenous People’s History of the United States by Dunbar-Ortiz and found it to be very good. Though my North American Indigenous history professor considered her “a bit overly critical at times” lol.
Though my North American Indigenous history professor considered her “a bit overly crtitical at times” lol.
A very strange conclusion to draw especially since in iits final conclusion it bends over backwards to try to find a way the US can somehow “redeem” itself rather than admitting the obvious that future history can only be righted with its destruction. Was this professor white, by any chance? I can imagine how such a work would offend their white fragility.
He was Dutch lmao. I didn’t take his thoughts seriously but I thought y’all would find them funny.
Called it. There is no non-white fragility explanation for having that objection.
I’ve read Zinn and have given away at least 3 copies of the book. I’ll have to grab an Indigenous People’s History. Thank you!
Good read.
Haven’t read this one yet, but I hear good things.
Seconding Counter-Revolution of 1776 (and Horne’s other books as well).
Absolutely GOATed author, everything by him ive read has been both very readable and well sourced. He’s good at showing how terrible the colonists were and how opposed they were to even weak reformist criticisms of their slave state
In 22 hours, you can catch Gerald Horne live talking about this topic of the American Counter-Revolution: https://www.youtube.com/live/95sYVnt5bx8
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Thank you! I just saw the first one in the megathread.
Thanks for the book recs in this thread, I am involved in hosting a small 4th get together today and some light reading will give my brain something to latch on to instead of simmering internally until I turn the 4th of July into the 4th of Shit.
I would also suggest Lies My Teacher Told me by James W. Loewen, it is a similar spirit to People’s History but might be a more approachable read without dumbing anything down. It’s been a few years since I read it but it does a great job deconstructing the civic religion sort of telling of our national myths that is typical to school textbooks.
Thank you!
