Howard Zinn's History Is The Memory Of The States

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Howard Zinn disputes Kissinger's statement, "History is the memory of the states" because history is different throughout the many different communities. Zinn believes that we must not think of history as something to be remembered by all of us. He believes this because he states that history remembered by some people can conflict with the history remembered by others. Zinn states that conflict of interests exist between masters and slaves, capitalists and the workers, and the conquerors and the conquered. John Winthrop's justifications for seizing Indian land was that the land that the Indians held was legally declared a vacuum and that is was his natural right seize that land. Winthrop claimed that Indians did not "subdue" the land and
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