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...Howard Zinn has never been afraid to say what is on his mind...
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...
...Zinn spoke on “Writing about Emma Goldman” to 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...
...spring of 1965, when serious U.S. involvement in Vietnam had been building for more than a year, Howard Zinn addressed an antiwar rally in Boston's Copley Square. "We had maybe 100 people," says Zinn, an emeritus historian at Boston University. Two weeks ago, he found himself in Copley Square again, speaking this time before a crowd gathered to oppose any U.S. military response to the terrorism of Sept. 11. And this time, though it was only a few days after George W. Bush first uttered the words "act of war," more than a thousand people had turned...
...Howard Zinn...