During recent discussions here concerning progressive disappointment over Obama's performance, a voice in my head kept telling me to go back and re-read the section in Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States about when FDR … [Read more...]
Howard Zinn 1922-2010
I took the first course that Howard Zinn taught at Boston University. It was PO 306 Civil Liberties. Fall, 1964. No text book. Original documents. American Friends Service Committee field reports. Congressional committee reports. Get … [Read more...]
RIP Howard Zinn
http://www.boston.com/news/loc... One of my fondest memories of Howard Zinn was when I ran into him and his wife in the lobby of the Washington Square Hotel in NYC in 2004. I made a point of telling him how his book inspired me to study … [Read more...]