Ark. bill introduced to ban Howard Zinn books from public schools

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTHV) – A bill introduced to the General Assembly on Thursday, March 2 would ban public schools in Arkansas from using books from best-selling author and historian Howard Zinn.

House Bill 1834, introduced by Representative Kim Hendren(R-Gravette), would ban books by Zinn from the years 1959 until 2000 for being used in public schools or an open-enrollment public charter school.

In 1980, Zinn released “A People’s History of the United States,” which looks at the history of America through the point of view of “women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, working poor, and immigrant laborers.”