Theme and Topic: War and Empire

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Just War

By Howard Zinn. Book - Speech. Charta/Distributed Art Publisher. 2006. Foreword by Gino Strada.
Based on a lecture given in Rome, Just War is a short, intense polemic on the political direction of those United States, leading toward what seems to Zinn like perpetual war.
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The Bomb

By Howard Zinn. Book - Non-fiction. Beacon Press. 2010. Foreword by Greg Ruggerio.
Zinn's personal reflections and political analysis on the WWII bombing of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Royan, and more.
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My Grades Will Not Be Instruments of War

Letter by Howard Zinn. Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.
In an undated letter (probably in 1966), Zinn said that he would not allow the grades he gave to play a role in helping the United States wage immoral wars. He announced that for students with a moral opposition to the war...
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You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

By Howard Zinn. Book - Autobiography. Beacon Press. 1994; 2002; updated in 2018 with a foreword by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor.
In his memoir, You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train, Zinn reflects on more than thirty years of fighting for social change, from his teenage years as a laborer in Brooklyn to teaching at Spelman College, where he emerged in the civil rights movement as a powerful voice for justice.
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