Our History, Our Future: Celebrating 10 Years of Voices at Lincoln Center
On Sept. 19, 2024, join a special 10th anniversary event at the Lincoln Center in New York City. This event is free and open to the public.
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Disturbing the War
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."
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Blaming Outside Agitators
In this excerpt from the autobiography You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train, Howard Zinn illustrates how Spelman students organized to petition for social change at their institution and the administration's response. Zinn writes,
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"When students begin to defy established authority it often appears to besieged administrators that 'someone must be behind this,' the implication being that young people are incapable of thinking or acting on their own."
Archive Notes: Howard Zinn’s Warmth, Compassion, and Humanizing of History
"In 2022–2023, I had the opportunity to spend three full weeks going through the Howard Zinn Papers housed at New York University’s Tamiment Library. . . . Being able to focus intensely on his correspondence crystallized how Zinn’s warmth, humor, and compassion draws in people who run across many segments of the population, and how he was a connector of people; he connected people to have the opportunities to tell their stories with those who could amplify them."
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2023 Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: Jules Gill-Peterson
On December 4, 2023, Jules Gill-Peterson, associate professor of History at Johns Hopkins University, was the featured speaker for the 2023 Howard Zinn Lecture Series at Boston University. We present the recording and transcript, published with permission.
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Against Amnesia: The 2023 Howard Zinn Book Fair
The Howard Zinn Book Fair returned as an in-person event on Dec. 3, at the City College of San Francisco, Mission Campus. The theme was “Against Amnesia.”
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Howard Zinn at 101: Needed Now More Than Ever
Article. The Progressive. By Eleanor J. Bader. 2023.
"As the right continues to push legislation censoring the teaching of United States history, Howard Zinn's 101st birthday on August 24 reminds us that education is a necessary stepping stone to change."
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"As the right continues to push legislation censoring the teaching of United States history, Howard Zinn's 101st birthday on August 24 reminds us that education is a necessary stepping stone to change."
New Book: Voices of a People’s History of the United States in the 21st Century
Inspired by the original Voices of a People’s History of the United States, this new book edited by Anthony Arnove and Haley Pessin, features speeches, essays, poems, and calls to action from the 21st century.
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New Digitized Audio and Video at Tamiment Library
In March 2023, Tamiment Library published 310 audio and video materials from the Howard Zinn Papers that can be listened to or viewed online. Included is an unedited transcription. The materials include lectures, interviews, and class discussions from the 1960s to the 2000s.
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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.
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Read, Learn, & Make History
Check out the Howard Zinn Digital Collection to search Zinn’s bibliography by books, articles, audio, video, and more.
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