When President Donald Trump convened theWhite House Conference on
American History
<https://www.c-span.org/video/?476072-1/white-house-conference-american-history>in
mid-September, he wowed attendees with news that he’d signed an
executive order establishing a National Committee to Promote Patriotic
Education.
This was necessary, he said, because U.S. teachers have been pushing
students “to hate America.” The major culprit? The late Howard Zinn’s
40-year-old, 784-page book,/A People’s History of the United States/.
Trump accused the World War II veteran-turned-scholar of promoting
“propagand
<https://truthout.org/video/trump-accused-howard-zinn-of-propaganda-but-zinn-was-right-about-us-history/>a
<https://truthout.org/video/trump-accused-howard-zinn-of-propaganda-but-zinn-was-right-about-us-history/>”
intended to make students “ashamed of their own history.”
https://truthout.org/articles/right-wing-orgs-are-enlisting-students-in-their-war-against-campus-progressives/
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