Howard Zinn at 100: Remembering “The People’s Historian” Howard Zinn at 100: Remembering “The People’s Historian”
Zinn made no pretense of neutrality. He believed that “in a world of conflict,” it was the historian’s job to advocate for the oppressed.
Aug 24, 2022 / Robert Cohen and Sonia Murrow
Debate and Controversy Make History Education Better Debate and Controversy Make History Education Better
Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States didn’t make students hate America—and nor does Critical Race Theory or the 1619 Project.
Sep 22, 2021 / Robert Cohen and Sonia Murrow
‘Tin Soldiers and Nixon’s Coming’ ‘Tin Soldiers and Nixon’s Coming’
The shootings at Kent State and Jackson State at 50.
May 4, 2020 / Robert Cohen and Michael Koncewicz
What Might Mario Savio Have Said About the Milo Protest at Berkeley? What Might Mario Savio Have Said About the Milo Protest at Berkeley?
The 1960s Berkeley Free Speech Movement leader warned that freedom exercised irresponsibly or freedom repressed could “bring disgrace upon our university.”
Feb 7, 2017 / Robert Cohen
Who’s Afraid of Radical History? Who’s Afraid of Radical History?
Mitch Daniels’s covert war on Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States.
Aug 5, 2013 / Robert Cohen and Sonia Murrow
Remembering Reagan’s Record on Civil Rights and the South African Freedom Struggle Remembering Reagan’s Record on Civil Rights and the South African Freedom Struggle
To Ronald Reagan, the apartheid regime in South Africa was a valuable cold war ally.
Feb 11, 2011 / Pedro Noguera and Robert Cohen