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Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922 – January 27, 2010) [1] was an American historian, playwright, philosopher, socialist intellectual and World War II veteran. He was chair of the history and social sciences department at Spelman College , [ 2 ] and a political science professor at Boston University .
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 ...
Henri de Saint-Simon, French political and economic utopian socialist theorist [11] Roger Waters, English musician [112] Cornel West, American philosopher and political activist [113] Richard D. Wolff, American economist [114] Howard Zinn, American historian [115]
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 ...
The Socialist Party and the SDF merged to form the Socialist Party–Social Democratic Federation (SP–SDF) in 1957. A small group of holdouts refused to reunify, establishing a new organization called the Democratic Socialist Federation (DSF). When the Soviet Union led an invasion of Hungary in 1956, half of the members of communist parties ...
John Tirman, the head of the MIT Center for International Studies since 2004, notes that Duberman fills in Zinn's history beyond what other sources "commonly focused on" following his death, highlighting not only Zinn's role as orator and activist, but also "his considerable intellectual achievements," including how "he challenged the notion of objectivity."
Criticized for potentially splitting the vote in 2020 due to running as a third party, former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz defended his choice to run “outside the 2-party system” by explaining ...
Republican Party (future Socialist Party of America candidate and self-identified socialist) [37] George Lunn: House March 4, 1917: March 4, 1919: New York: Democratic Party (former Socialist Party of America member) [38] Meyer London: House March 4, 1915: March 3, 1919: New York Socialist Party of America [12] Harry Lane: Senate March 4, 1913 ...