Comments on: American Revolution: Radical or Conservative?

By: matt mckeon

matt mckeon — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:46:14 +0000

Sounds like an awesome lesson.

By: Tamahome Jenkins

Tamahome Jenkins — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:23:37 +0000

“But in the end, they noted that Wood’s argument was more sophisticated and more synthesized and that Zinn took simple facts and generalizations and ran with them.”

That lends to the nature of each book, Wood focuses on the American Revolution, while Zinn examines the past 500 years. Furthermore, the book that focuses on the Revolution also tends to repeat what is taught in schools anyway. I’m not trying to be a troll, so let me end by saying good job on actually helping your students with their critical thinking skills. ^_^

By: Richard G. Williams, Jr.

Richard G. Williams, Jr. — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:17:02 +0000

Chris:

It was, in my opinion, certainly radical for those times – asserting individual liberty and rights over the Divine rights of Kings?!

I’m glad your students saw through Zinn’s fallacies.