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2022 Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: Mae Ngai • Introduction by Takeo Rivera

On Thursday, Sept. 29, Dr. Mae Ngai was the featured speaker of the 2022 Howard Zinn Lecture Series at Boston University. The event was phenomenal, from the introduction by Dr. Takeo Rivera, to Dr. Ngai's talk titled "The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes, Chinese Migration, and Global Politics," to the joint conversation.

Howard Zinn Centennial Event Recordings and Highlights Now Available

Highlights and recordings are now available of the teacher workshop, the historian and artist panel, and archivist panel that took place August 23-25. Theses events were co-sponsored by HowardZinn.org, Zinn Education Project, Tamiment Library, Busboys and Poets, and Voices of a People’s History.

Power of the People Ice Cream for Howard Zinn Centennial

In commemoration of Howard Zinn's 100th birthday, the Baltimore-based Taharka Brothers released a new flavor called "Power of the People" ice cream.

Free E-Book — A Life of Activism: Howard Zinn in His Own Words

For the Howard Zinn Centennial, Beacon Press, Haymarket Books, The New Press, and Seven Stories Press are offering a free-book, A Life of Activism: Howard Zinn in His Own Word.

Howard Zinn Centennial Events, Aug. 23–25

HowardZinn.org, Zinn Education Project, Tamiment Library, and Voices of a People's History are pleased to present a week of events to celebrate Howard Zinn's 100th birthday that include a teacher workshop, historian and artist panel, and archivist panel.

Howard Zinn Audio Visual Timeline Launches

To celebrate #HowardZinn100, we present the Howard Zinn Audio Visual Timeline that features curated audio/visual materials that are in the Howard Zinn Digital Collection. Known for his compassion, social commentary, and humor, Zinn’s words and voice are to be experienced first hand. Visit https://www.howardzinn.org/about/audio-visual-timeline/.

“Secrecy, Archives, and the Public Interest”

In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Howard Zinn (1922-2010), the Midwestern Archivist granted rights to publish “Secrecy, Archives, and the Public Interest" (1977). Influential still today, Zinn urges archivists to “One, engage in a campaign to open all government documents to the public. . . . And two, that they take the trouble to compile a whole new world of documentary material, about the lives, desires, needs, of ordinary people.”

Category: Featured News

2022 Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: Mae Ngai • Introduction by Takeo Rivera

Howard Zinn Centennial Event Recordings and Highlights Now Available

Power of the People Ice Cream for Howard Zinn Centennial

Free E-Book — A Life of Activism: Howard Zinn in His Own Words

Howard Zinn Centennial Events, Aug. 23–25

Howard Zinn Audio Visual Timeline Launches

“Secrecy, Archives, and the Public Interest”

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