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...rarely notice the obituary section of The New York Times, but this past January, I could not ignore the headlines: J.D. Salinger, Howard Zinn, Abraham Sutzkever, and Louis Auchincloss all died within the span of a week. All of these men were writers who, in recently leaving the world, have left behind on culture a mark that we, unfortunately, cannot fully identify...
Historian Howard Zinn's remarkable work, including his most famous book, A People's History of the United States, is summarized best in his own words. His primary concern, he once explained, was "the countless small actions of unknown people" that lie at the roots of the great moments of history--a record that would be profoundly misleading, and seriously disempowering, if torn from such roots. Howard, who died Jan. 27 at 87, was devoted to the empowerment of these unknowns...
Historian Howard Zinn told a Harvard Square crowd last night that members of the Bush administration should seek out support groups to conquer their compulsion for combat. “I’ve been thinking we should have a group called ‘Imperialists Anonymous,’ and they would get up and confess to their addiction to war and militarism,” Zinn told an approving audience at the First Church in Cambridge, across the Mass Ave. from Harvard Yard. And repentant Bush administration officials aren’t the only ones who should...
Historian Howard Zinn, who lectured for the course and was also at the forum, praised the students in Palmer’s class for their questions, which at the time focused on an impending...
Reading Zinn’s transcript in “Global Values 101,” his enthusiasm for participating in a Harvard discussion is apparent. One of the questions posed to Zinn is whether military force is sometimes necessary for humanitarian goals; the students allude to Rwanda and Kosovo...