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Howard Zinn, historian who challenged status quo, dies at 87
« on: January 28, 2010, 01:07:20 AM »
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Howard Zinn, the Boston University historian and political activist who was an early opponent of US involvement in Vietnam and whose books, such as "A People's History of the United States," inspired young and old to rethink the way textbooks present the American experience, died today in Santa Monica, Calif, where he was traveling. He was 87.

His daughter, Myla Kabat-Zinn of Lexington, said he suffered a heart attack.

"He's made an amazing contribution to American intellectual and moral culture," Noam Chomsky, the left-wing activist and MIT professor, said tonight. "He's changed the conscience of America in a highly constructive way. I really can't think of anyone I can compare him to in this respect."


Chomsky added that Dr. Zinn's writings "simply changed perspective and understanding for a whole generation. He opened up approaches to history that were novel and highly significant. Both by his actions, and his writings for 50 years, he played a powerful role in helping and in many ways inspiring the Civil rights movement and the anti-war movement."
For Dr. Zinn, activism was a natural extension of the revisionist brand of history he taught. "A People’s History of the United States" (1980), his best-known book, had for its heroes not the Founding Fathers -- many of them slaveholders and deeply attached to the status quo, as Dr. Zinn was quick to point out -- but rather the farmers of Shays' Rebellion and union organizers of the 1930s. ....
http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/01/howard_zinn_his.html
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Re: Howard Zinn, historian who challenged status quo, dies at 87
« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2010, 01:42:04 AM »
What a shame.
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Re: Howard Zinn, historian who challenged status quo, dies at 87
« Reply #2 on: January 28, 2010, 01:57:11 AM »
A radical left history revisionist.

We have to revise this article.

"He lay in state as the Marine Band played the Internationale in his honor, for his service to the Fatherland."

There.  :p
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Re: Howard Zinn, historian who challenged status quo, dies at 87
« Reply #3 on: January 28, 2010, 04:45:00 AM »
He died?

It was the white man's fault.
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Re: Howard Zinn, historian who challenged status quo, dies at 87
« Reply #4 on: January 28, 2010, 06:09:36 AM »
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Re: Howard Zinn, historian who challenged status quo, dies at 87
« Reply #5 on: January 28, 2010, 08:09:42 AM »
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Re: Howard Zinn, historian who challenged status quo, dies at 87
« Reply #6 on: January 28, 2010, 12:55:01 PM »
I happened to hear at lunchtime, likely on Rush, that he had recently said that in the absence of some extraordinary political shift, Obama was shaping up to be a mediocre-at-best President.  I'm sure his reasons for that assessment come from a quite different direction than ours, of course!

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Re: Howard Zinn, historian who challenged status quo, dies at 87
« Reply #7 on: January 28, 2010, 02:26:53 PM »
On the road I typically travel to my home, I noticed last night someone had run over a skunk.  It smelled really bad and I had to endure it for a minute until I finally got the odor out of my car.

Howard Zinn stank up a lot of things with his lies, but it least he didn't stink up my car, and for that I am thankful.

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