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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 5 February 2025. American historian and socialist thinker (1922–2010) Howard Zinn Zinn in 2009 Born (1922-08-24) August 24, 1922 New York City, U.S. Died January 27, 2010 (2010-01-27) (aged 87) Santa Monica, California, U.S. Education New York University (BA) Columbia University (MA, PhD) Occupation(s ...
Covered in the chapter are the American Federation of Labor (which Zinn argues provided too exclusive of a union for non-white, female, and unskilled workers; Zinn argues in Chapter 24 that this changes in the 1990s), Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, Joe Hill, the Socialist Labor Party, W. E. B. Du Bois, and ...
A People's History of American Empire is a 2008 graphic history by Howard Zinn, Mike Konopacki, and Paul Buhle.The book combines material from Zinn's history book A People's History of the United States and his autobiography You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train with new material from other sources, most notably George Lipsitz's A Rainbow at Midnight: Labor and Culture in the 1940s and Jim ...
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In 2009, the documentary film The People Speak was released. Narrated by Zinn, the film uses dramatic and musical performances of the letters, diaries, and speeches of Americans, the historically famous and the everyday, based on Zinn's and Arnove’s anthology as well as A People's History of the United States.
The American Empire Project is a book series that deals with imperialist and exceptionalist tendencies in US foreign policy in the early 21st century. The series is published by Metropolitan Books and includes contributions by such notable American thinkers and authors as Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Chalmers Johnson and Andrew Bacevich.
In addition, Duberman criticizes Zinn's style of citation, noting that Zinn doesn't always make clear whether he is using remembered quotes or precise quotes from audio tapes. [ 3 ] Writing in a 1974 review of the civil rights history corpus, George Burson Jr. describes Zinn's work as "an excellent history" and as one of the very few books ...
Further, Zinn questions the idea that the racism in the North and South were unbridgeably different, arguing instead that the difference was in degree, rather than kind—the North was simply a little less racist. Finally, Zinn disposes of the question of whether differences between races were environmentally, biologically, or culturally produced.