Tributes to People's Historian Howard Zinn, 1922

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6/25/2010
Writer, critic and activist Carlos Monsiváis, 1938 - 2010

6/8/2010
He is totally unreproducible — he was sui generis — Martin Gardner, 1914 - 2010

4/6/2010
Anarchist, poet, publisher and chess-player, John Rety, 1930 - 2010

4/4/2010
"Literature was another victim of the war": Miguel Delibes, 1920 - 2010

3/7/2010
Translator, critic and BBC script editor, Barbara Bray, 1924 - 2010

1/30/2010
Tributes to People's Historian Howard Zinn, 1922 - 2010

1/2/2010
At 42, she was one of the best poets of her generation, Rachel Wetzsteon, 1967 - 2009

12/27/2009
You have to decide which side you are on: there is always a side. Commitment does not exist in an abstraction; it exists in action: Dennis Brutus, 1924 - 2009

11/8/2009
Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1908 - 2009, his works as a practical anti-racist manifesto

11/7/2009
Power exercised by man over his fellow man is always a usurpation, Francisco Ayala, 1906 - 2009

10/14/2009
The Potato that Became a Tomato, Playgiarist Raymond Federman, 1928 - 2009

9/30/2009
Milton Meltzer, 1915 – 2009

9/14/2009
Iconic poet and punk rocker, Jim Carroll, 1950 - 2009

8/9/2009
Israeli writer Amos Kenan, 1927 - 2009

7/30/2009
Angela's Ashes author Frank McCourt, 1930 - 2009

6/23/2009
Indian poet Kamal Das, 1934 - 2009

6/8/2009
Ethnic Studies Pioneer Ronald Takaki, 1939 - 2009

3/29/2009
Pioneer Historian and Scholar of African-American studies, John Hope Franklin, 1915 - 2009

2/20/2009
Sudan novelist Tayeb Salih, 1929 -2009

1/31/2009
John Updike, 1932 - 2009, David Margolick on John Updike's Adieu to Ted Williams

1/22/2009
Norwegian philosopher and founder of the Deep Ecology Movement, Arne Næss, 1912 – 2009

1/4/2009
English poet, novelist, playwright, socialist and pacifist, Adrian Mitchell, 1932 - 2008

12/28/2008
Art, Truth and Politics - Harold Pinter, 1930 - 2008

12/19/2008
Dorothy Porter, 1954 - 2008

11/17/2008
Jazz biographer Peter Levinson, 1934-2008

11/10/2008
'My epitaph will be 'Curiosity did not kill this cat'' – Studs Terkel, 1912 - 2008

9/15/2008
I think it's the best time to be alive ever and it's probably the best time to be a writer - David Foster Wallace, 1962-2008

8/15/2008
Mahmoud Darwish, 1942 - 2008

6/17/2008
Media Guru Tony Schwartz, 1923 - 2008

5/25/2008
David Rieff on a lying to his dying mother, Susan Sontag

5/18/2008
Swing Hammer Swing! author, Jeff Torrington, 1935-2008

3/25/2008
Arthur C. Clarke, 1917 - 2008

1/22/2008
Poet and translator or Icelandic literature, Bernard Scudder, 1955 – 2007

1/13/2008
George MacDonald Fraser, inventor of Flashman, 1925 – 2008

12/30/2007
Julien Gracq, 1910 - 2007

12/20/2007
Diane Middlebrook, 1939 - 2007

12/16/2007
Gay historian Allan Bérubé dies

12/2/2007
One of the greatest scientists of our era, Seymour Benzer, dies at age 86

11/21/2007
Vernon Scannell, 1922 - 2007

11/14/2007
Norman Mailer, 1923-2007. He went down swinging.

11/6/2007
James Michie 1927 - 2007

9/19/2007
Champion of science fiction for children, Douglas Hill, 1935 - 2007

9/8/2007
Newberry Medal winner Madeleine L'Engle dies

9/2/2007
Julia Briggs, 1943 - 2007

8/30/2007
American short-story writer and activist Grace Paley dies

8/26/2007
Once the Nuremberg Trials were over and a few people judged guilty, no one wanted to talk about it. But I was driven by a desire to know what happened. - Raul Hilberg 1926 - 2007

8/5/2007
Ingmar Bergman 1918 - 2007

6/11/2007
Poet and translator Michael Hamburger, 1924 - 2007

6/3/2007
Classical scholar and archaeologist, Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood, dies at 62

5/16/2007
Dickens scholar Philip Collins, 1923 - 2007

1/30/2010 Tributes to People's Historian Howard Zinn, 1922 - 2010

The best human being I've ever known. The best example of what a human can be, and can do with their life. - Daniel Ellsberg from A Memory of Howard

Howard Zinn broadened the battle when he claimed conventional U.S. texts and school courses failed by celebrating wars, legislation, Presidents, generals and captains of industry. He stood history back on its feet when he told on how masses of American women and men, people of color and poor whites built the country first as slaves and indentured servants, and then as mill hands, assembly line workers and maids. He further antagonized traditional scholars by rejoicing in the disobedience of slave rebels, union organizers and radical civil rights and anti-war agitators. He found dissidents to be America's real patriots and democrats -- not the George Washingtons, Thomas Jeffersons and Andrew Jacksons who talked of liberty while they traded in slaves, and sent posses after those who escaped. - William Loren Katz from Changing History

He really conveyed to everyone he came into contact with that there was no more meaningful action than to be involved in struggle, no more fulfilling or important way of living one’s life than in struggle fighting for justice. And so many people, myself included, but, you know, millions of people around the world, countless number of people, they changed their lives by encountering Howard Zinn—Howard changed their lives—reading A People’s History of the United States, hearing one of his lectures, meeting him, hearing him on the radio, reading an article he wrote. He really inspired people to create the kinds of movements that brought about whatever rights, whatever freedoms, whatever liberties we have in this country. And that really is the legacy that it’s incumbent upon all of us to extend and keep alive and keep vibrant. - Anthony Arnov from DemocracyNow!.

Anyone who believes that the United States is immune to radical politics never attended a lecture by Howard Zinn...What matters is not who's sitting in the White House. What matters is who's sitting in!" he would say with a mischievous grin. - Dave Zirin from Howard Zinn: The Historian Who Made History

His writings have changed the consciousness of a generation, and helped open new paths to understanding and its crucial meaning for our lives. When action has been called for, one could always be confident that he would be on the front lines, an example and trustworthy guide. - Noam Chomsky quoted by Mark Feeney and Bryan Marquard from Howard Zinn, historian who challenged status quo, dies at 87

No American historian has left a more lasting positive legacy on our understanding of the true nature of our country, mainly because his books reflect a soul possessed of limitless depth. Howard's People's History Of The United States will not be surpassed. As time goes on new chapters will be written in its spirit to extend its reach. - Harvey Wasserman from How the Great Howard Zinn Made All Our Lives Better

A People's History of the United States
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You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
Howard Zinn
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Passionate Declarations
Howard Zinn
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The Zinn Reader
Howard Zinn
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Three Plays: The Political Theater of Howard Zinn
Howard Zinn
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