Labor Day is a good time to pay tribute to the late Howard Zinn, a rebel historian who broke with the tedious orthodoxy of “patriotic” history to tell the tale of those consigned to the bottom of the ...

The voices of America’s past continue to make an impact on the country today, speakers said. Historian and Boston University professor emeritus Howard Zinn, accompanied by producer Chris Moore and ...

Howard Zinn, one of the country’s most celebrated historians, died of a heart attack January 27, 2010, in Santa Monica, California. He was 87 years old. His classic work, A People’s History of the ...

Zinn, the straight-talking Jewish leftist from working-class Brooklyn who wrote A People’s History of the United States, participated in the first use of napalm while helping to bomb a French village ...

Purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Columbus and Las Casas -- The first slaves -- Servitude and rebellion -- Preparing the revolution -- Half a revolution -- The early women's ...

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1. Columbus, the Indians, and human progress -- 2. Drawing the color line -- 3. Persons of mean and vile condition -- 4. Tyranny Is tyranny -- 5. A Kind of revolution -- 6. The intimately oppressed -- ...

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