Howard Zinn, historian who challenged status quo, dies at 87

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David in Atlanta
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Jan 27 2010 23:27
Howard Zinn, historian who challenged status quo, dies at 87
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January 27, 2010 05:40 PM

By Mark Feeney, Globe Staff

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.

“His writings have changed the consciousness of a generation, and helped open new paths to understanding and its crucial meaning for our lives,” Noam Chomsky, the left-wing activist and MIT professor, once wrote of Dr. Zinn. “When action has been called for, one could always be confident that he would be on the front lines, an example and trustworthy guide.”

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/01/howard_zinn_his.html

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Jan 27 2010 23:36

I can't believe this. I was just about to e-mail him: http://libcom.org/forums/history-culture/important-anyone-know-how-contact-howard-zinn-18012010

This really is a big loss to the world sad

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Jan 28 2010 12:58

If you can, check out the 2004 documentary, 'Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train'.

It's a fitting testament to a very decent man. His death is a sad loss.

His 'Je Ne Suis Pas Marxiste' is still one of my all time favourite political essays.

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Jan 28 2010 15:13
Steven. wrote:
I can't believe this. I was just about to e-mail him: http://libcom.org/forums/history-culture/important-anyone-know-how-contact-howard-zinn-18012010

This really is a big loss to the world :(

Yeah. I remember that. Your post made me start his peoples history at last. Really sad.

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David in Atlanta
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Jan 28 2010 15:19

dumb joke weller.

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Jan 28 2010 19:07

I fucking hate the Jam. Style Council stuff was good though.

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Jan 28 2010 23:49

Looks like J.D salinger just kicked the bucket too. I say Libcom should put God "On Notice"

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Jan 29 2010 09:05

Reading Zinn's A Peoples' History of the United States a few years ago gave me an insight in how to regard my own idea of what history is and also served as a reminder of how big the fight-back actually is and always has been!

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Jan 30 2010 19:47

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=4009

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Jan 31 2010 18:27