Transcribed Archives - Howard Zinn

Howard Zinn Interview in The F-Word

Howard Zinn interviewed by Melody Berger • The F-Word Zine/PM Press • 2008
Howard Zinn discusses civil disobedience, outlaws versus criminals, social movements, labor organizing, and hope.

Court testimony documents, Ohio 7 on Trial group photo

Howard Zinn’s Testimony at the United Freedom Front Sedition Trial

Court testimony by Howard Zinn. University of Massachusetts Amherst. Oct. 18, 1989.
Howard Zinn's testimony on

Scare Words Leave Scars on Everyone

By Howard Zinn. Article. Newsday. January 22, 1989.
“The use of scare words is profoundly undemocratic. It stifles debate; it creates an atmosphere in which people are afraid to speak their minds, honestly, afraid to examine all ideas.”

Talk at the History and Consequences of Anti-Communism Conference (1988)

Talk by Howard Zinn.Harvard University. 1988.
This clip is from Howard Zinn's opening talk at the 1988 international Conference "The History and Consequences of Anti-Communism" held in November 1988 at Harvard University.

A People’s History of American Empire • Talks at Google

Talk by Howard Zinn. Authors@Google. 2008.
The Authors@Google program welcomed Howard Zinn to Google's Cambridge office on November 11, 2008. Professor Howard Zinn discusses the role of U.S. Empire and how militarism and U.S. interventionism comes at a cost of harming the people in the U.S., as well as the harm done to other countries.

Bob Moses and Howard Zinn at the Martin Luther King Jr.: The Leader and the Legacy Forum (1986)

Source: C-SPAN VIDEO LIBRARY • 1986

On October 15, 1986, Robert "Bob" Moses and Howard Zinn joined a panel of scholars discussing the Civil Rights Movement, SNCC, and Martin Luther King Jr.'s life and legacy in Washington, D.C.

The First Amendment and A Free People Radio Show

Howard Zinn interviewed by Bernard Rubin. WBGH Boston Open Vault. 1970s.
Bernard Rubin: What’s your definition of radical?
Howard Zinn: Somebody who wants to do something to make very fundamental changes in the distribution of wealth, in the distribution of political power, and in a kind of culture of violence and oppression in which we exist today. Race, sex, class oppression, something that fundamental. That’s what I mean, I guess.

History Detectives: Howard Zinn on the Lawrence Textile Strike

Howard Zinn interviewed by Elyse Luray. PBS History Detectives. 2006.
Elyse Luray: So why was there this renewed interest in the strike?
Howard Zinn: I think that the movements of the 1960s, of Black people in the South, of women, of people all over the country working against the war in Vietnam, of disabled people, there arose out of those movements, a greater interest in history that had been neglected in the orthodox teachings of the past. I think as part of that new interest in people's history, we began to get more interest in labor history, and therefore in the history of the Lawrence Strike.

My Grades Will Not Be Instruments of War

Letter by Howard Zinn. Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.
In an undated letter (probably in 1966), Zinn said that he would not allow the grades he gave to play a role in helping the United States wage immoral wars. He announced that for students with a moral opposition to the war...

Howard Zinn: How Racial Prejudice Can Change

Howard Zinn interviewed by Patricia Marx. WNYC Radio. 1960s.
Recorded in the 1960s (estimate 1964-1965 based on transcript), Patricia Marx sits down with historian Howard Zinn to discuss his books, SNCC: The New Abolitionists and The Southern Mystique. Zinn describes his experiences teaching at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, from 1956 to 1963, and his subsequent observations on racial prejudice in the southern United States.

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Howard Zinn Interview in The F-Word

Howard Zinn’s Testimony at the United Freedom Front Sedition Trial

Scare Words Leave Scars on Everyone

Talk at the History and Consequences of Anti-Communism Conference (1988)

A People’s History of American Empire • Talks at Google

Bob Moses and Howard Zinn at the Martin Luther King Jr.: The Leader and the Legacy Forum (1986)

Source: C-SPAN VIDEO LIBRARY • 1986

The First Amendment and A Free People Radio Show

History Detectives: Howard Zinn on the Lawrence Textile Strike

My Grades Will Not Be Instruments of War

Howard Zinn: How Racial Prejudice Can Change

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