Howard Zinn, historian who challenged status quo, dies at 87

January 27, 2010 05:40 PM
By Mark Feeney, Globe StaffHoward Zinn, the Boston University historian and political activist who was an early opponent of US involvement in Vietnam and a leading faculty critic of BU president John Silber, died of a heart attack today in Santa Monica, Calif, ( Read more... )

Chris Moore and Anthony Arnove, Co-Executive Producers and Co-Directors of The People Speak Join History Makers 2010 Line-Up along with Russ McCarroll of History Channel.
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Starting on Thursday, November 5 at Boston University, Howard Zinn and producers and cast from THE PEOPLE SPEAK are embarking on a national college tour for Howard's forthcoming documentary feature film THE PEOPLE SPEAK ( Read more... )

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From inspiredlife who was lucky enough to go to the Zinn tapings ( Read more... )

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I support Dennis because, when people ask me if I think Dennis has a chance, I remember what Rebecca Solnit writes in Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities: Activists are often portrayed as an unrepresentative, marginal rabble, but something shifted in the media in the fall of 2002. Since then, antiwar activists have mostly ( Read more... )

Chapter 6 was inadvertently posted with Chapter 3; that has been corrected in the original post now, and here is a new link to the correct Chapter 6.

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