Type of Content: Speeches and Talks

1492-1992: The Legacy of Columbus

Talk by Howard Zinn. PM Press. 2011.
Howard Zinn returns to the themes he popularized in his masterful A People’s History of the United States—how we interpret history, and what that tells us about the struggles of the vast majority of folks typically written out of the narrative.
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War and Civil Disobedience

Talk by Howard Zinn.PM Press. 2010.
Delivered in the context of the current U.S. war in Iraq, Howard Zinn passes on stories of civil disobedience to the unjust wars of U.S. history.
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Stories Hollywood Never Tells

Talk by Howard Zinn. AK Press. 2001.
In this informal talk given at the Taos Film Festival, Howard Zinn turns his attention to Hollywood, the stories it tells, and the ones it doesn’t.
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Secrecy, Archives, and the Public Interest

By Howard Zinn. Midwest Archives Conference/Archival Issues. July 1977.
This paper was presented at "The Archivist and the New Left" panel of the Society of American Archivists' (SAA) annual conference held in Washington, D.C. in which he urged archivists “to take the trouble to compile a whole new world of documentary material, about the lives, desires, needs, of ordinary people.”
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Terrorism and War

By Howard Zinn with Anthony Arnove. Book - Nonfiction. Seven Stories Press, 2002.
Howard Zinn explores the growth of the American empire, as well as the long tradition of resistance in this country to U.S. militarism, from Eugene Debs and the Socialist Party during World War I to the opponents of U.S. military intervention in Afghanistan today.
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