Critical overview of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States

In Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, history is told from the point of view of the oppressed rather than of the oppressors. Therefore, instead of trying to find a middle ground of truth, Zinn deems it a moral crime to side with oppressors (as he believes traditional American history text books do), and then simply sides with the other extreme (the oppressed). As a result of viewing history through the eyes …

…and the oppressed would be too complicated, and so Zinn only gives us the viewpoint of the oppressed. History is not an abstraction, and it is not to be presented as opinion. History is real, it is fact, it happened, and when an historian begins taking sides, he ceases to be an historian, and becomes a moralist. History as told by a moralist should never be relied on as fact; it is opinion, nothing more.