Showing posts with label Howard Zinn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Howard Zinn. Show all posts
Monday, May 25, 2020

Memorial Day 2020 (1 of 4): Howard Zinn asks, "Whom Will We Honor Memorial Day?"

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"No politician who voted funds for war, no business contractor for the military, no general who ordered young men into battle, no FB...
Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Remembering Howard Zinn, as we must.

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Howard Zinn died on January 27, 2010. He wrote “ A People’s History of the United States ,” a must-read if ever there was one. RIP, Ho...
Monday, May 27, 2019

Memorial Day 2019 (1 of 4): Howard Zinn asks, "Whom Will We Honor Memorial Day?"

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"No politician who voted funds for war, no business contractor for the military, no general who ordered young men into battle, no FB...
Monday, October 08, 2018

Howard Zinn: "Let us not be disconsolate over the increasing control of the court system by the right wing. The courts have never been on the side of justice."

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As a prelude to the Dred Scott Decision Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court confirmation drama, our own Dan Canon took to Salon to pour acid ...
Saturday, August 25, 2018

Howard Zinn, Mitch Daniels and "the role of history in education, politics and scholarship."

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(Mitch) Daniels will probably not get this, as the current President of Purdue University has no academic qualifications to even be appoi...
Monday, June 11, 2018

The belated Memorial Day post by Howard Zinn: "Whom Will We Honor Memorial Day?"

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I had no idea Cannon Fodder was a game, and has been for a long time. Small wonder we're doomed as a nation. One reason that I...
Friday, February 10, 2017

Learn about Howard Zinn and “What the Classroom Didn’t Teach Me About the American Empire.”

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Howard Zinn died in 2010. A few years ago, when I tried listing the most influential books in my life, Zinn's A People's Histor...
Monday, July 04, 2016

"Howard Zinn’s July 4 Wisdom Stands the Test of Time."

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This was topical in 2015.  “The American system is the most ingenious system of control in world history. With a country so rich in na...
Saturday, July 04, 2015

Howard Zinn on the 4th of July.

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“The American system is the most ingenious system of control in world history. With a country so rich in natural resources, talent, and ...
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

RIP, Howard Zinn: A true giant of truthfulness is gone.

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Twelve years ago, I bought Zinn's seminal work from an Dallas airport book store while waiting out a weather delay, and had a couple hun...
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Saturday, July 05, 2008

A bit of Zinn to exacerbate the hangover.

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With the birthday parties mostly concluded and the nationalism temporarily abated, permit me to note that I never really understood how one ...
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