Howard Zinn, the Boston University historian and political activist, died of a heart attack yesterday. He was 87.
Zinn was an early voice against the war in Vietnam and in his best-known book, "A People's History of the United States" (1980), he presented as heroes not the Founding Fathers (many of them were slaveholders,as Dr. Zinn pointed out) but instead the likes of the common farmers of Shays' Rebellion and the union organizers of the 1930s.
Howard Zinn was a stand-up guy and one of the few men I have ever admired.
If you want to know what an American patriot really looks like, look to him.
sj
One of Howrd Zinn's best pieces:
1 comment:
Such a sensible article and argument. Thanks for the link.
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