Howard Zinn columns

Another part of the installation — set up in the entryway — featured 13 works based on the American flag, but showing “revolutionary” figures including the journalist Hunter S. Thompson, activist Angela Davis, philosopher Noam Chomsky, Muhammad Ali, Edward Snowden and the historian Howard Zinn.

I recently read an article from a Chinese-sponsored publication about the Great Wall of China. ... Otherwise, you can look forward to more teachers using the likes of Howard Zinn's “A People's History of the United States” as a preferred text, or trashing the Bill of Rights without any semblance of balance.

In this west coast premiere, Daisey compares what he learned in his high school U.S. history textbook with Howard Zinn's electrifying A People's History of the United States - uncovering the past and stirring new insights with his quintessential provocative humor. The season takes a musical turn for the ...

(That account comes from an interview with Colburn in Voices of a People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove. Medina denied these and other charges relating to My Lai. He was court martialed and acquitted for his part in the event.) Thompson and his crew continued flying ...

People confused Noam Chomsky for an intellectual and thought Howard Zinn was an historian, with disastrous consequences. Former Sen. Bob Graham and former Congressman Lou Frey sought out to bring civics back. It worked. Want to hear a real liberal intellectual? Joseph Stiglitz is interviewed by the ...

Howard Zinn, professor of history, noted in his book “A People's History of the United States” how Columbus reacted in his first face-to-face meeting ... In a recent article in the online magazine Truthdig, he said: “Guns and a militarized culture are the real weapons of mass destruction in American society.”.

Weber's show doesn't seek to villainize anyone or call any beliefs out, but political times create political art – with the director pointing to the famous Howard Zinn quote, "You can't be neutral on a moving train." "As a school, we are political – whether we want to be or not," he explained. "If we do a play like ...

For Chalamet: Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, The Internet Does Not Exist (per Gerwig, “an essay collection that warns of the dangers of a networked world”), and Eric Rohmer's My Night at Maud's. Ronan got Joan Didion books, Paper Moon, and John Hughes's Pretty in Pink and ...

After reading many letters to the editor, as well as many articles, I have noticed that the thinking of many of the writers does not agree with our Constitution. ... at Wounded Knee” by Dee Brown along with treasuring books by Howard Zinn, H.W. Brands, Gordon S. Wood and David McCullough, among others.

Over the 14 episodes of Season 1, it becomes clear that Cocaine & Rhinestones is closer in spirit to Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States than Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon. While Coe is clearly having fun with all the cheatin' and a-fightin' and a-fussin' and occasional murderin' ...

One of my social activist role models — Howard Zinn — was a historian, and many of my academic role models like Eqbal Ahmad, Noam Chomsky, Edward Said and Cornel West were or are social activists. Scholarship — historical scholarship in my case — can make people better citizens, friends, ...

Howard Zinn said many important things in his life. The Boston University political science professor and author of A People's History of the United States, entitled his memoir "You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train." But the words that resonate most in my mind now - in the days following the shooting at ...

Inspired by Maquire's speech, then senior David Bayer '64 wrote a letter to Howard Zinn, a history professor at Spelman College, a historically black ... A Orient editorial said that the exchange program would only be worthwhile if Bowdoin students could come to the realization that they are integral to the ...

In Howard Zinn's words, there is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people. ... Years ago, writing in these columns, I had argued that the relentless struggle of men and women who wander off far from home to earn a living and to give a better life to their families against great odds ...