Howard Zinn

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Howard Zinn | What the Classroom Didn’t Teach Me About the US Empire

Have not the justifications for empire, embedded in our culture, begun to lose their hold on our minds?

By: Howard Zinn ,; TomDispatch

October 5, 2015

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Education & Youth

Howard Zinn, “Finishing School for Pickets” and Paula Giddings, “Learning Insubordination“

An excerpt from a 1960 Howard Zinn piece and Paula Giddings looking back on Zinn.

By: Paula J. Giddings &; Howard Zinn ,; TomDispatch

March 26, 2015

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Howard Zinn: Lincoln and Emancipation

Historian Howard Zinn on Abraham Lincoln and the eventual abolition of slavery in the US. Which shows that Spielberg's new film, Lincoln, is far from historically accurate.

By: Howard Zinn ,; APeople'sHistoryoftheUnitedStates

February 5, 2013

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To Disagree Is to Be Put on the Enemies List

Howard Zinn: As the economic situation of the universities becomes more precarious and faculties shrink, it becomes easier to get rid of undesirables, whether political dissidents or just troublesome …

By: Howard Zinn ,; CityLightsPublishers

July 16, 2012

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No Human Being Is Illegal

A UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter from the Department of Homeland Security's new Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), flies past the Empire State Building in New York during …

By: Howard Zinn ,

August 15, 2011

Danny Glover Reads Frederick Douglas: “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro” (Video)

July Fourth is held up as a day to celebrate the struggle for freedom and independence. But the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass, himself a former slave and the editor …

By: Howard Zinn &; Anthony Arnove ,; Truthout

July 2, 2010

Three Holy Wars

The Progressive 100th Anniversary Speech in Madison, Wisconsin, May 2, 2009. Matt Rothschild: For all his fame he's more humble, or as I told him once, he fakes it …

By: Howard Zinn ,; Truthout

January 12, 2010

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