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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.”

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Howard Zinn Centennial Events, Aug. 23–25

Howard Zinn Audio Visual Timeline Launches

“Secrecy, Archives, and the Public Interest”

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