• ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.ml
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    I’m told A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn is a good one though the bourgeois revolution isn’t the total focus. Haven’t read it though.

    I have however, read An Indigenous People’s History of the United States by Dunbar-Ortiz and found it to be very good. Though my North American Indigenous history professor considered her “a bit overly critical at times” lol.

    • Piltdowntown [they/them, any]@hexbear.net
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      Though my North American Indigenous history professor considered her “a bit overly crtitical at times” lol.

      A very strange conclusion to draw especially since in iits final conclusion it bends over backwards to try to find a way the US can somehow “redeem” itself rather than admitting the obvious that future history can only be righted with its destruction. Was this professor white, by any chance? I can imagine how such a work would offend their white fragility.