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Howard Zinn

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Dec 10, 2017
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Op-Ed

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
Truthout
Op-Ed
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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Excerpt

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,
A People's History of the United States
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…
by
Howard Zinn,
City Lights Publishers
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…
by
Howard Zinn
August 15, 2011
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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…
by
Howard Zinn &
Anthony Arnove,
Truthout
July 2, 2010
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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…
by
Howard Zinn,
Truthout
January 12, 2010
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