Great Educator Dies. Links to Howard Zinn Tributes

If you don't know Howard Zinn's work, you should. At least read yourself at least 50 pages of his book, People's History of the United States. You will be enlightened. (You can purchase it below.)

History usually tells the story of the powerful, of wars, of great intellects, of popular athletes and celebrities. History shines a light on those who fly above the hazy smoke that haunts the human hive.

History rarely tells us about regular folks. It rarely tells about workers fighting for better lives, for fair treatment, for moral principles. It rarely tells us about powerful institutions murdering the leaders of the low and luckless.

Zinn helped balance the scales of justice just a bit.

YouTube remembrance of Howard Zinn: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjn6rwKryWU

Two interviews with Howard Zinn: 

http://www.onpointradio.org/2010/01/listening-back-to-howard-zinn

Article Remembrances:

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100215/zinn/single

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/30/opinion/30herbert.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alex-green/remembering-howard-zinn_b_439541.html

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion/522763/howard_zinn_the_historian_who_made_history

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jan/29/howard-zinn-obituary

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jan/28/howard-zinn-america

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jan/29/howard-zinn-history-activism

Howard Zinn on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=subwDAZtEN0 (On human nature and aggression)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BydZv9ykJU (Interviewed by Woody Harrelson)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mebqz79O6AA (Taxes are a class discussion)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUBYI97cUgU (We can't say bad things about 3 U.S. wars)

Book: People's History of the United States

DVD: Recent Documentary about Howard Zinn (with Matt Damon and others)

Comments

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Thank you for all of your wonderful work. I thank you for showing this other side of history. People say Dr. Zinn was a negative nancy but that's not true. There are great stories of triumph and courage and love in our country's history and to simply deny them to add to our mythology is something that cannot be excused because it robs us of our character.

[ray ban]

Some say that the blogosphere will compensate for journalism's rapid death spiral. I'm not at all confident of this. People have to put in substantial time to do good honest reporting (and good honest research, by the way). Putting in a lot of time generally requires some kind of payment so the reporter can afford the computer, the roof, and the food to keep doing the reporting.

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think about it this way--this means stories aren't being written--or are being written by (1) amateurs who largely do a poor job and (2) financially-motivated people who often do a biased job.

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History usually tells the story of the powerful, of wars, of great intellects, of popular athletes and celebrities. History shines a light on those who fly above the hazy smoke that haunts the human hive.

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Zinn was a man who took many paths in life. A shipyard worker. A playwright. A rabble rouser. A historian.

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Thanks to Bill Ellet, editor of the unbiased Training Media Review, writes about the awards in our industry and how hopelessly biased and corrupt they are.

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for his many years in leading the workplace learning