I’ll give you one guess as to what Zinn’s point was this week. Anyone? Anyone? Class Conflict. If you ever want to pretend you’ve read this book, just blather on about class conflict. I promise no one will ever guess … Continue reading
Welcome to weeks 10 and 11! We’re not even to the halfway point yet. *sigh* I had the best of intentions of doing my reading early. Did it happen? Noooooooooo. I’m writing this Sunday afternoon…the same day I forced myself … Continue reading
I’m pretty sure we’re on week 9 of A People’s Readalong. A (shrinking) group of us are reading one chapter a week from Howard Zinn’s classic history book, A People’s History of the United States. We hope to finish sometime in … Continue reading
Welcome to week seven of A People’s Readalong. A group of us (see the end of the post for the group, and please shout out if I’ve overlooked you) will be reading one chapter a week from Howard Zinn’s classic … Continue reading
Welcome to week five of A People’s Readalong. A group of us (see the end of the post for the group, and please shout out if I’ve overlooked you) will be reading one chapter a week from Howard Zinn’s classic … Continue reading
Welcome to week three of A People’s Readalong. A group of us (see the end of the post for the group, and please shout out if I’ve overlooked you) will be reading one chapter a week from Howard Zinn’s classic … Continue reading
Welcome to week two of A People’s Readalong. A group of us (see the end of the post for the group, and please shout out if I’ve overlooked you) will be reading one chapter a week from Howard Zinn’s classic … Continue reading
Welcome to week one of A People’s Readalong. A group of us (see the end of the post for the group, and please shout out if I’ve overlooked you) will be reading one chapter a week from Howard Zinn’s classic … Continue reading
Today is the official “start reading” date for our A People’s Readalong of Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States (although we’ll be reading this puppy until July, so it’s never too late to join in). So to … Continue reading
“If you don’t know history, it is as if you were born yesterday.” -Howard Zinn Jenners and I have decided to read Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States…mostly because it’s been sitting on both of our shelves … Continue reading
In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish. ~S.I. Hayakawa
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
~St. Augustine
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
~Mark Twain
