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By Howard Zinn. From the Archives. Circa 1976.
From Howard Zinn's folder of "Course Syllabi: 'Introduction to Political Theory,' 1968-1987" in the "Boston University" series housed at New York University is this list of talking points on "Vulnerability of the Powerful" and "Power of the Powerlessness." Published with permission of the Howard Zinn Revocable Trust.

By Howard Zinn, 2004
"In this world of war and injustice, how does a person manage to stay socially engaged, committed to the struggle, and remain healthy without burning out or becoming resigned or cynical? I am totally confident not that the world will get better, but that we should not give up the game before all the cards have been played."

For Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we feature an excerpt from Chapter One of A People’s History of the United States. Howard Zinn describes why he tells the story of Columbus’s arrival “from the viewpoint of the Arawaks” and “the inevitable taking of sides which comes from selection and emphasis in history.”

In "Speech Against the Vietnam War, Boston Common," given on May 5, 1971, Howard Zinn said, "They’ll say we’re disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war. For two weeks, for two weeks we have not let the country forget about this war. The veterans in their ways, the mass meetings in their way, the disrupters in their way . . . and we must continue disturbing the war and the makers of the war."