Zinn, the people's historian, provides numerous examples of hidden material for possible movie scripts. There are great stories out there waiting to be told. Zinn recounts some of them. Recorded at the 1999 Taos Talking Film Festival. April 17, 1999.
History is in fact a commodity, yet another item on the ideological shelf.
It is marketed and packaged like any other product. It is wrapped in the pretense of objectivity. Its content is framed, shaped and informed by the historian's own race, class and gender. November 13, 1993. By the time the U.S. entered the international arena in the late nineteenth century, there wasn't much left to grab.