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CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS by Howard Zinn

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Independence Day Hypocrisy

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Howard Zinn: “You respond to terrorism with terrorism, and you multiply the terrorism”

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“Welcome to the Plutocracy!”

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Howard Zinn:You Can't be Neutral on a Moving Train

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Meltdown 2010

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Public Policy: Immigration?

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Arundhati Roy: "We May Not Need Peace in This Unjust Society; You Need People Who Are Prepared to Resist" | | AlterNet

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Escalate the Peace! - Liz Welch Reads Howard Zinn

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Howard Zinn's Recent Endorsement of the Kent State Truth Tribunal

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The World Lost A Great Humanitarian

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The making of policy in America: Howard Zinn

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The Myth of "Good Wars"

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The One About The Loss Of Howard Zinn A Hero Of Progressivism.

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Howard Zinn: The People's Historian

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The People Speak Tour, Inspired by Howard Zinn

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'People's History' author Howard Zinn dies at 87

Howard Zinn, an author, teacher and political activist whose leftist "A People's History of the United States" became a million-selling alternative to mainstream texts and a favorite of such celebrities as Bruce Springsteen and Ben Affleck, died Wednesday. He was 87.

Zinn died of a heart attack in Santa Monica, Calif., daughter Myla Kabat-Zinn said. The historian was a resident of Auburndale, Mass.

Published in 1980 with little promotion and a first printing of 5,000, "A People's History" was — fittingly — a people's best-seller, attracting a wide audience through word of mouth and reaching 1 million sales in 2003. Although Zinn was writing for a general readership, his book was taught in high schools and colleges throughout the country, and numerous companion editions were published, including "Voices of a People's History," a volume for young people and a graphic novel

At a time when few politicians dared even call themselves liberal, "A People's History" told an openly left-wing story. Zinn charged Christopher Columbus and other explorers with genocide, picked apart presidents from Andrew Jackson to Franklin D. Roosevelt and celebrated workers, feminists and war resisters.

He attended New York University and Columbia University, where he received a doctorate in history. In 1956, he was offered the chairmanship of the history and social sciences department at Spelman College, an all-black women's school in then-segregated Atlanta.

During the civil rights movement, Zinn encouraged his students to request books from the segregated public libraries and helped coordinate sit-ins at downtown cafeterias. Zinn also published several articles, including a then-rare attack on the Kennedy administration for being too slow to protect blacks.

He was loved by students — among them a young Alice Walker, who later wrote "The Color Purple" — but not by administrators. In 1963, Spelman fired him for "insubordination." (Zinn was a critic of the school's non-participation in the civil rights movement.) His years at Boston University were marked by opposition to the Vietnam War and by feuds with the school's president, John Silber.

Zinn retired in 1988, spending his last day of class on the picket line with students in support of an on-campus nurses' strike. Over the years, he continued to lecture at schools and to appear at rallies and on picket lines.

Besides "A People's History," Zinn wrote several books, including "The Southern Mystique," "LaGuardia in Congress" and the memoir, "You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train," the title of a 2004 documentary about Zinn that Damon narrated. He also wrote three plays.

One of Zinn's last public writings was a brief essay, published last week in The Nation, about the first year of the Obama administration.

"I've been searching hard for a highlight," he wrote, adding that he wasn't disappointed because he never expected a lot from Obama.

"I think people are dazzled by Obama's rhetoric, and that people ought to begin to understand that Obama is going to be a mediocre president — which means, in our time, a dangerous president — unless there is some national movement to push him in a better direction."

Zinn's longtime wife and collaborator, Roslyn, died in 2008. They had two children, Myla and Jeff.Howard Zinn, an author, teacher and political activist whose leftist "A... more

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Zinn on the movement and new parties - Part 5

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Unions and the movement - Part 4

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Zinn: Send a message to Obama - Part 3

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