Remembering Howard Zinn / by Noam Chomsky -- The People's Historian / by Timothy Patrick McCarthy -- The People's History. "Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress" from A People's History of the United States -- "The Colorado Coal Strike, 1913-1914" from Three Strikes -- "The New Abolitionists" and "Out of the Sit-Ins" from SNCC: The New Abolitionists -- "Carter-Reagan-Bush: The Bipartisan Consensus" from A People's History of the United States -- Who Controls the Past Controls the Future -- The Politics of History. "What Is Radical History?" from The Politics of History -- "'My Name Is Freedom' : Albany, Georgia" and "Selma, Alabama" from You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train -- "The Politics of History in the Era of the Cold War: Repression and Resistance" from The Cold War and the University -- "A Yellow Rubber Chicken: Battles at Boston University" from You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train -- How Social Change Happens -- Protest Nation. "Bunker Hill: Beginnings" from Postwar America -- "Patriotism" from A Power Governments Cannot Suppress -- "Law and Justice" from Passionate Declarations -- "The Ultimate Power" from Passionate Declarations -- The Future of History -- On War and Peace. "Hiroshima and Royan" from The Politics of History -- "Vietnam: The Moral Equation" from The Politics of History -- "A Matter of Perspective," "Withdrawal," and "A Speech for LBJ" from Vietnam -- "The Case Against War in Iraq" from The Zinn Reader -- Resistance and the Role of Artists -- Marx in Soho: A Play on History -- Afterword / by Alice Walker.
Summary:
When the historian Howard Zinn died in early 2010, millions mourned the loss of one of our foremost intellectual and political guides: a historian, activist, and truth-teller who, in the words of the New york Times's Bob Herbert, "peel[ed] back the rosy veneer of much of American history." Designed to highlight Zinn's most important writings, this book includes excerpts from Zinn's bestselling A People's History of the United States ; his memoir, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train ; his inspiring writings on the civil rights movement; and the full text of his celebrated play.
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