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A favorite U.S. history in leftish circles, Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States purports to tell our history with greater.
So Allen teamed up with Larry Schweikart, a prolific history professor at the University of Dayton, and they set out to right the wrong — so to.!
It’s lonely on the right – but sometimes the rewards can be sweet
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April 1, 2010
The circle of conservative and libertarian academic historians in the United States is so small that they all know each other.
They talk to each other on a listserv, they go to the same conferences, they’re funded by the same right-wing foundations and think tanks.
And for many years, they complained that all the sophomore-level textbooks on American history suffered from a liberal bias, recalled Professor Mike Allen, one of UW Tacoma’s founding faculty members.
“There was not one conservative textbook,” Allen said during a recent interview in his faculty office — where Republican Barry Goldwater (1964) and Libertarian Ed Clark (1980) gazed down from campaign posters on the walls, attesting to Allen’s well-known political stance.
Conservative historians particularly disliked the late Howard Zinn’s 2003 book, A People’s History of the Uni