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Dear Good Friends of East Timor, On May 20 of this year, after decades of struggle, East Timor became independent. With…
Howard Zinn
Howard Zinn was born in 1922 and died 2010. He was a historian and a playwright. He taught at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, then at Boston University. He was active in the civil rights movement, and in the movement against the Vietnam war. He has written many books, his best known being A People`s History of the United States. His many books include You Can`t Be Neutral on a Moving Train (a memoir), The Zinn Reader, The Future of History (interviews with David Barsamian) and Marx in Soho (a play), among many others.
Veterans Day used to be called Armistice Day, because it was November 11, 1918, at 11 AM – the eleventh hour of…
Veterans Day used to be called Armistice Day, because it was November 11, 1918, at 11 AM – the eleventh hour of…
In all the solemn statements by self-important politicians and newspaper columnists about a coming war against Iraq, and even in the troubled…
For half a century, HOWARD ZINN has been one of the leading voices to speak out against the injustices carried out in…
Howard Zinn As the prize of the presidency lurched wildly back and forth in the last days of the year, with the…
Howard Zinn (This essay will appear in the October Issues of The Progressive) There came a rare amusing moment in this election…
Howard Zinn I am surprised that my friend Hans Koning, a stalwart protester against the war in Vietnam, seems to have been…
Howard Zinn In this year 2000, I cannot comment more meaningfully on the Fourth of July than Frederick Douglass did when he…
Howard Zinn Recently, meeting with a group of high school students, I was asked by one of them: "I read in your…