my "antidote" to the "Dunning school" that attacked the capability of black folks to govern themselves after the civil war was the novel FREEDOM ROAD by Howard Fast --- when I got to college and started reading the disgusting stuff written about Reconstruction, I was already innoculated ...
that was before the 1960s FORCED a re-evaluation of the racist school of history --- ultimately leading to Foner's complete take-down of the Dunning School in his book on Reconstruction. I suppose one can quibble here and there with Howard Zinn for whom I have the utmost respect --- but I have hope that Trump's effort will not succeed. Certainly, I made sure that every course I taught that touched on US 19th and 20th century history refused to accept the Philloips -Dunning approach to Slavery and Reconstruction _--- and the 20th century --- AND I also made sure the students knew about the CRAP that previous generations had been taught .... there is a horrible right wing college in Ohio (Hillsdale I think) that is trying to create a set of video talking about the REAL US ... I haven't the stomch to check it out but I hope it's so obviouly ridiculous as to have no impact ... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#2057): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/2057 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/77198524/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
