2001 Archives - Howard Zinn

A Just Cause, Not a Just War

Article by Howard Zinn. The Progressive. December 2001.
"No killing of innocents, whether deliberate or 'accidental,' can be justified."

Letter to the Editor by Howard Zinn regarding Richard Falk’s “Ends and Means: Defining a Just War” [Oct. 29]. The Nation. November 26, 2001.
"Four instances of violence come to my mind. One I read about in the newspapers; another I witnessed; in a third I was on the receiving end; in the fourth, the most brutal of them all, I was a perpetrator."

Stories Hollywood Never Tells

Talk by Howard Zinn. AK Press. 2001.
In this informal talk given at the Taos Film Festival, Howard Zinn turns his attention to Hollywood, the stories it tells, and the ones it doesn’t.

Heroes And Martyrs: Emma Goldman, Sacco & Vanzetti, and the Revolutionary Struggle

Talk by Howard Zinn. AK Press, 2001.
Focused on the era of the Industrial Revoluation, Howard Zinn focuses on the organizers and agitators in the laboring and immigrant communities including Ben Reitman, Alexander Berkman, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, and Emma Goldman.

A People’s History of the United States: A Lecture at Reed College

Talk by Howard Zinn. AK Press, 2001.
Howard Zinn explains with great humor and passion how his teaching, his history, and his activism are parts of the same project.

Howard Zinn on History

By Howard Zinn. Book - Essays. Seven Stories Press. 2001; updated 2013 with an introduction by Staughton Lynd.
A collection of 27 writings on activism, electoral politics, the Holocaust, Marxism, the Iraq War, and the role of the historian.

Howard Zinn on War

By Howard Zinn. Book - Essays. Seven Stories Press, 2001; updated 2013. Introduction by Marilyn B. Young.
Essays spanning 1962 to 2006 that examine specific wars, wartime incidents, and the force of non-violence to move beyond war, if we are to survive.

La otra historia de los Estados Unidos

By Howard Zinn, translated by Toni Strubel. Seven Stories. 2001, updated in 2011.
A People’s History of the United States in Spanish.

Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor’s Last Century

By Howard Zinn, Robin D. G. Kelley, and Dana Frank. Book - Nonfiction. Beacon Press. 2001.
Collection of three essays about stikes by miners, salespeople, and musicians.

Zinn’s Offer of Expert Testimony on COINTELPRO in Bari-Cherney Civil Case

Howard Zinn letter to Dennis Cunningham. April 30, 2001.
In April 2001, Howard Zinn offered to provide expert testimony in the civil case regarding the FBI’s history of using the Counterintelligence Program—COINTELPRO. Below is a transcript of his letter to the lead counsel.

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Year: 2001

A Just Cause, Not a Just War

Is This Really a ‘Just War’?

Stories Hollywood Never Tells

Heroes And Martyrs: Emma Goldman, Sacco & Vanzetti, and the Revolutionary Struggle

A People’s History of the United States: A Lecture at Reed College

Howard Zinn on History

Howard Zinn on War

La otra historia de los Estados Unidos

Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor’s Last Century

Zinn’s Offer of Expert Testimony on COINTELPRO in Bari-Cherney Civil Case

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