By Mark Feeney and Bryan Marquard, The Boston Globe, Jan 27, 2010
Howard Zinn, the Boston University historian and political activist who was an early opponent of US involvement in Vietnam and whose books, such as “A People’s History of the United States,” inspired young and old to rethink the way textbooks present the American experience, died today in Santa Monica, Calif, where he was traveling. He was 87.
His daughter, Myla Kabat-Zinn of Lexington, said he suffered a heart attack.
By Brian Jones, Socialist Worker, December 16, 2009
WHEN I first read Patrick Courrielche’s rant against the film The People Speak, I have to admit I felt a pinch of pride. After all, if you’re going to be slandered, what better company to be in than Howard Zinn’s?
Courrielche’s article for Big Hollywood–a conservative Web site obsessively devoted to decrying the left-wing conspiracy in the entertainment industry–was about The People Speak, a documentary inspired by Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove’s anthology Voices of a People’s History of the United States. Courrielche accused the film of everything from perpetrating a distorted, one-sided “version” of American history to presenting inappropriate material to three-year-olds. Published before The People Speak aired last Sunday night, the article seemed designed to stir up a right-wing campaign against the network that dared to broadcast it–the History Channel.
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‘One Long Struggle for Justice’
April 22, 2010An interview with historian Howard Zinn
In 2008 Rethinking Schools and the Washington, D.C.-based education nonprofit Teaching for Change joined together to form the Zinn Education Project, dedicated to promoting the teaching of a people’s history in middle and high schools throughout the United States. The Zinn Education Project recently launched a new website, www.zinnedproject.org, that features over 75 downloadable teaching articles, drawn mostly from the archives of Rethinking Schools magazine, and hundreds of teaching resource recommendations: books, curricula, and audiovisual materials.
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