Howard Zinn's FBI File
Matthew Rothschild - The Progressive
“If those in charge of our society – politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television – can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.”
Howard Zinn
“The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”
The late Howard Zinn on cspan Booknotes in ‘00 talking about his most famous book, “A People’s History of the United States”
Democracy Now! Archive of Howard Zinn speeches and interviews
Breaking: Howard Zinn, ‘popular’ historian, dies of heart attack today at age 87.
Howard Zinn, the Boston University historian and political activist who was an early opponent of US involvement in Vietnam and a leading faculty critic of BU president John Silber, died of a heart attack today in Santa Monica, Calif, where he was traveling, his family said. He was 87.
“His writings have changed the consciousness of a generation, and helped open new paths to understanding and its crucial meaning for our lives,” Noam Chomsky, the left-wing activist and MIT professor, once wrote of Dr. Zinn. “When action has been called for, one could always be confident that he would be on the front lines, an example and trustworthy guide.”
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Bill Moyers Journal:
Renowned historian Howard Zinn has chronicled centuries of people’s struggles against oppression. He joins Bill Moyers to discuss the voices of today’s people — facing big interests’ outsized influence — and his new film THE PEOPLE SPEAK.
pbs December 11, 2009
