LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Arkansas lawmakers want to ban public schools from using classroom materials authored or inspired by Howard Zinn, the radical socialist author of “A People’s History of the United States.”

House Bill 1834, introduced by Republican state Rep. Kim Hendren, is “an act to prohibit a public school district or open-enrollment public charter school from including in its curriculum or course materials for a program of study books or any other material authored by or concerning Howard Zinn,” according to the General Assembly website.

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The bill was introduced on Thursday and referred to the House Committee on Education.

Hendren told Reason.com the legislation – intended to apply to elementary and secondary schools, but not public colleges – was spawned by constituents who raised “concerns about some of the approaches that Howard Zinn has taken to history in the books he’s written.”

“My basic personal philosophy is I think we ought to be open to hearing both sides of the situation and then try to do what’s best for ourselves and our country,” he said. “That’s what will happen with this bill.”

Zinn, who died in 2010, was best known for his revisionist history book “A People’s History of the United States,” which critics claim is rife with false information designed to promote a wildly liberal perspective on the founding of America, slavery, the labor movement, civil and women’s rights, among other topics.

The book was first published in 1980, and Zinn released a version for young readers in 2007 titled “A Young People’s History of the United States.”

Zinn is also the namesake of the Zinn Education Project, an organization of far-left “educators” devoted to teaching A People’s History.

The Zinn Education Project’s most recent newsletters include “Teach Students to Question the President” and “Five Myths About Reconstruction.”

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Other topics of discussion include People Enslaved by U.S. Presidents, Trail of Tears, Japanese internment, and allegedly racist quotes from famous political leaders.

“When he ran for president, Trump lied and used hate speech when talking about people of color, Muslims, immigrants, Native Americans, LGBTQ people, people with physical disabilities, and women,” according to the group’s February newsletter.

“Trump’s first weeks have shown that these were not empty words, but a preview of the biased policies to come. We invite you to draw on curriculum at the Zinn Education Project to help your students make sense of this new context.”

Hendren certainly isn’t the first politician to speak out against Zinn’s radical views and move to block his warped perspective from students.

Former Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels wrote an email to state education officials about his thoughts on Zinn’s work shortly after the author’s death.

“This terrible anti-American academic has finally passed away. … The obits and commentaries mentioned his book, A People’s History of the United States, is the ‘textbook of choice in high schools and colleges around the country,’” Daniels wrote in an email obtained by the Associated Press through a Freedom of Information Act request three years later.

“It is a truly execrable, anti-factual piece of disinformation that misstates American history on every page. Can someone assure me that it is not in use anywhere in Indiana? If it is, how do we get rid of it before more young people are force-fed a totally false version of our history?”

Hendren told Reason he’s been inundated with hostile phone calls and attacks on Twitter since his bill was introduced.

“Nazi’s banned books too,” chuckyou2 tweeted to Hendren. “This is America. We don’t ban books. We read them & discuss their merits.”

“State sponsored censorship of history is a fool’s errand,” Lyle Boggs posted. “Your attempt to banish Howard Zinn is shameful and will backfire.”

Hendren said his intent isn’t necessarily to get his bill through the General Assembly unchanged, but rather to spark a conversation about balancing different political perspectives in education and avoid “indoctrination” of one viewpoint, Reason reports.