Howard Zinn: The People's Historian

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Historian and author of A People's History of the United States Howard Zinn presents a critical view of American expansionism. In this interview, he discusses Andrew Jackson's wars against the Seminole Indians leading to the Florida Purchase, the Mexican-American War, how Native American resistance to white settlers was brutally oppressed, the role of religion in Manifest Destiny, the Spanish-American War, and U.S. imperialism in Latin America. Zinn calls for recognizing our national limitations and shifting America's role as a military superpower to a more humanitarian model-a process that he believes would reduce terrorism threats and focus spending on domestic needs
Exposing Andrew Jackson (4:38)
Florida Purchase (4:20)
Expanding Slave States (3:35)
Tecumseh's Campaign (2:33)
Fighting Westward Expansion (3:20)
Frontier Myth (1:53)
Sand Creek Massacre (2:21)
Assimilation Attempts (3:19)
Manifest Destiny (3:27)
Mexican War (4:33)
San Patricio Battalion (4:13)
Divine Providence (3:28)
Spanish-American War (4:47)
American Imperial Strategy (5:22)
Questioning Superpower Privileges (5:03)
Questioning American Success (6:10)
Rethinking Foreign Policy (6:35)
War as Terrorism (2:40)
Lessons from History (1:40)
Credits: Howard Zinn: The People's Historian-Part 2: A Nation Redefined (1750- 1864) (0:32)

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