Abstract
In a war-making society, teaching peace as a rejection of war requires boldness—a characteristic, in my experience, not typically found in history instructors at work. While the field of peace studies overtly rejects violence in all its forms (hopefully), historians tend to claim or aspire to academic detachment or objectivity. But “you can’t be neutral on a moving train,” historian Howard Zinn taught us, and the “train” of U.S. history, as engineered by the dominant opinion-pushers, celebrates and euphemizes war.
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