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What Zinn did is present a different picture of history from the one you get from official sources. Instead of indoctrinating you to see wars as ‘just’, which benefits the powerful, and see private control of resources as a good thing, he challenges you to look at the past with a different set of assumptions, priorities and interpretations. That is, he writes about historical events usually obscured by the methods and tools of traditional historiography. By changing the categories of analysis, he also changes the way we see things. This usually tends to be unsettling because it goes against everything we’ve been taught to believe (which we simply assumed was ‘the truth’ and not how the state controls what it wants us to know). Official history is really like having a lobotomy.