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This philosophy has guided Zinn??79-year-old professor emeritus of history at Boston University and one of the country’s most respected and popular lecturers and activists—into a career comprised of truth-seeking and story-telling. Zinn started out as a shipyard worker and joined the Air Force at 21. Later, he began to ask himself “troubling questions” about the war, and soon became involved in the southern civil rights movement. His People’s History of the United States has become a bestseller...
...about forty attendees at the Murray Center of the Radcliffe Institute as part of their Brown Bag Lunch Series last week. An anarchist and staunch feminist, Goldman herself is arguably more forgotten than she deserves, and mainstream accounts fail to portray the richness of her character. Zinn??s speech was filled with innumerable digressions—often self-deprecating asides tinged with his dry humor—designed to illuminate her life but shaped by his perspective...
...Zinn began a playwrighting project, which resulted in Emma, Boston’s longest-running play in 1977, followed by productions in New York, London and Japan. Theater has always been a side-passion of Zinn??s; his wife and son, who directed Emma in its New York run, are both heavily involved in the dramatic world. Theater, Zinn said, is unlike academia because it is collective and honest, devoid of the “extraneous considerations” that pervade university life. In some sense, he turns history into drama with his vivid descriptions: the tale...
...Zinn??s real brilliance is his ability to extend history into a narrative of the present moment, to talk about the present and to act in the present, to take a role in the history he tells. His investigations are not academic exercises; they are deeply personal and idealistic. “I can never stay with history because I can never stay in the past,” he said. History is a path towards understanding our present society and towards choosing a course for the future...