{"id":82,"date":"2016-06-19T15:38:53","date_gmt":"2016-06-19T15:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/?p=82"},"modified":"2019-08-23T18:24:05","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T18:24:05","slug":"historical-bullshit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2016\/06\/19\/historical-bullshit\/","title":{"rendered":"Historical Bullshit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>History is normally written from the point of view of the winners and rulers. \u00a0But in this business of winning and ruling, many people are killed and impoverished. \u00a0Howard Zinn&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegoyslife.com\/Documents\/Books\/A%20People's%20History%20of%20the%20United%20States-%20Howard%20Zinn.pdf\">A People&#8217;s History of the United States <\/a>[also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historyisaweapon.com\/zinnapeopleshistory.html\">here<\/a>]\u00a0<\/em>examines history from the perspective of the losers and ordinary people &#8212; the workers. \u00a0Also: Chris Harman, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/digamo.free.fr\/harman99.pdf\">A People&#8217;s History of the World<\/a>, 1999, 2008.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Frances FitzGerald, <em>America Revised: History School Books in Twentieth Century<\/em> (1979)<\/p>\n<p>James W. Loewen, <a href=\"https:\/\/4.files.edl.io\/0ec3\/06\/28\/18\/155729-1b8ab639-28ff-4b2d-858e-4ecf1f9cbbc4.pdf\">Lies My Teacher Told Me<\/a>, 1995, 2007.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FO_hrbbD8dM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History is normally written from the point of view of the winners and rulers. \u00a0But in this business of winning and ruling, many people are killed and impoverished. \u00a0Howard Zinn&#8217;s A People&#8217;s History of the United States [also here]\u00a0examines history from the perspective of the losers and ordinary people &#8212; the workers. \u00a0Also: Chris Harman, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2016\/06\/19\/historical-bullshit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Historical Bullshit&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-bullshit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1997,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/1997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}