There is near consensus that the polarization of the United States, into South and North, which eventually lead to the American Civil War was caused by slavery (Hutchison, 2003). The argument that has taken currency on this issue is that the Southerners were fighting for the perpetuation of slavery while the Northerners had taken the moral high ground of ending it. However, the two respective […]

In A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn has contentions with nationalism as an ideology. This will not be the first time he raises such a sentiment. More than a quarter century after the publication of A People’s History, Zinn ‘celebrates’ Independence Day with an essay called Put Away The Flags, in which he urges that Americans renounce nationalism. For Zinn (2006), nationalism […]