The Oregon Association of Scholars (OAS) recently announced that it is sponsoring a talk by AHI Resident Fellow Mary Grabar on her book Debunking Howard Zinn: Exposing the Fake History That Turned a Generation against America (August, 2019) in Portland, Oregon on January 22.

According to a recent article in The College Fix, Portland State University’s history department is declining to co-sponsor an event on a new book critical of the late historian Howard Zinn, on the basis that its author Mary Grabar, Resident Fellow at the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), does not have a doctorate in history.

The OAS release states “Educated Americans have always known of the mendacity of Zinn’s so-called People’s History of the United States,” said Dr. Bruce Gilley, Professor of Political Science at Portland State University and chapter president of the Oregon Association of Scholars. “Now, with Dr. Grabar’s new book, that mendacity is documented in chilling detail, showing the negligence and abuse of Oregon public school and college students forced to read it.”

Mary Grabar earned her PhD from the University of Georgia and taught college English for 20 years. She is the author of the book Debunking Howard Zinn: Exposing the Fake History That Turned a Generation against America (August, 2019). She is now a Resident Fellow at the AHI in Clinton, New York. Her writing can be found at DissidentProf.com and at marygrabar.com.