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| Book Title |
Howard Zinn on history |
| Author |
Zinn, Howard; |
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Howard Zinn is a historian, playwright, and social activist. He was a shipyard worker and Air Force bombardier before he went to college under the GI Bill and received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He has taught at Spelman College and Boston University, and has been a visiting professor at the University of Paris and the University of Bologna. He has received the Thomas Merton Award, the Eugene V. Debs Award, the Upton Sinclair Award, and the Lannan Literary Award. He lives in Auburndale, Massachusetts. - Source: Powell's Books
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History (General) |
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World history and history of Europe,Asia,Australia,Africa,Newzealand etc; |
| Call No |
D16.9.Z57 |
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In these wide-ranging pieces, Zinn earns his keep by showing the power of history when it serves the struggle for human rights. These writings can provoke and enlighten readers with the range of possibilities in the word "history". Essays include an account of Zinn's experiences teaching in a Mississippi Freedom School in 1964. - Source: Powell's Books
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Howard Zinn on History brings together Zinn's shorter writings on activism, electoral politics, the Holocaust, Marxism, the Iraq War, and the role of the historian, as well as portraits of Eugene Debs, John Reed, and Jack London, effectively showing how Zinn's approach to history evolved over nearly half a century, and at the same time sharing his fundamental thinking that social movements—people getting together for peace and social justice—can change the course of history. That core belief never changed. Chosen by Zinn himself as the shorter writings on history he believed to have enduring value—originally appearing in newspapers like the Boston Globe or the New York Times; in magazines like Z, the New Left, the Progressive, or the Nation; or in his book Failure to Quit—these essays appear here as examples of the kind of passionate engagement he believed all historians, and indeed all citizens of whatever profession, need to have, standing in sharp contrast to the notion of "objective" or "neutral" history espoused by some. "It is time that we scholars begin to earn our keep in this world," he writes in "The Uses of Scholarship." And in "Freedom Schools," about his experiences teaching in Mississippi during the remarkable "Freedom Summer" of 1964, he adds: "Education can, and should, be dangerous." - Source: Powell's Books
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| Imprint |
New York: Seven Stories Press, 2001 |
| ISBN |
1-58322-048-8. |
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NONE |
| Language |
English |
| Total Copies |
1 |
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0 |
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1 |
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