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What is Zinn's approach to the study of history? What does he suggest occurs when history is told as a story of human progress?

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Zinn, probably America’s most famous radical historian, gives his, in many ways different from most traditional ideas, look at the most important events in US history from colonial times to the beginning of the 21st century. The author created an unusually vivid, lively, full of interesting facts history of life and the struggle for the survival and dignity of disadvantaged social groups. Zinn himself called his political views being at the crossroads of democratic socialism and anarchism, and used the Marxist methodology in his scientific works. In contrast to the official version of “the history of presidents and generals,” Zinn draws attention to those aspects that are not always adequately covered by the mainstream of American historical science: class struggle, American expansionism, Indian genocide, Black rebellions against slavery, the situation of workers, women and African Americans.

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