RIP Howard Zinn

RIP: Howard Zinn

Howard Zinn, the populist historian, died today in Santa Monica. He was 87. From The Boston Globe : For Dr. Zinn, activism was a natural extension of the revisionist brand of history he taught. Dr. Zinn’s best-known book, “A People’s History of the United States” , had for its heroes not the Founding Fathers - many of them slaveholders and deeply attached to the status quo, as Dr. Zinn was quick … (News Source: GOOD - 00:20:00)

Howard Zinn Dead, Author Of ‘People’s History Of The United States’ Died At 87

Howard Zinn, the Boston University historian and political activist who was an early opponent of US involvement in Vietnam and a leading faculty critic of BU president John Silber, died of a heart attack today in Santa Monica, Calif, where he was traveling, his family said. He was 87. (News Source: The Huffington Post - 23:37:13)

Howard Zinn Has Died

The Globe reports that lefty historian Howard Zinn died today at the age of 87. Zinn, best known among several generations of idealists and students, as the author of the iconoclastic A People’s History of the United States (1980), which retold American history from a left-revisionist perspective, worked at Boston University from 1964 until his retirement from teaching in 1988. The Globe’s obit … (News Source: Bostonist - 00:04:56)

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