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This text is available in Howard Zinn Cartoon
Empire or Humanity? What the Classroom Didn’t Teach Me About the American Empire is a short animated film based on the late Howard Zinn’s graphic novel People’s History of American Empire. (Howard Zinn is featured in the realeyz.tv films CLASS DISMISSED and AXIS OF EVIL: PERFORATED PRAETER NATURAM.)
In 2008, Zinn (with fellow historian Paul Buhle) distilled some of his key writings for presentation in the popular, low-threshold medium of comics to spread his ideas to audiences who might not fight their way through history tomes (even if they are written with the purpose of maximum understandability and minimum academic mumbo jumbo, as was Zinn’s goal). (more…)
You Can’t Be Neutral On A Moving Train
German book publishers Edition Nautilus have just recently released the German language edition of Howard Zinn’s autobiography You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times under the title “Schweigen heisst lügen” (22.- € ). Howard Zinn was a dedicated civil rights activist and historian and this book tells his life’s story. Anyone interested in America as a land of equal opportunity, peace policy and social activism should read this book. You can also experience Howard Zinn in picture and sound in the realeyz.tv video CLASS DISMISSED. Howard Zinn is also one of the commentators in the realeyz.tv AXIS OF EVIL.
Historian and Civil Rights Activist Howard Zinn Dies at 87
Howard Zinn, the professor, historian and social activist and one of the America’s outstanding intellectual social critics, has died. Zinn served as an Air Force pilot in WWII and became deeply involved in the civil rights and peace movements. Zinn’s most famous work A People’s History of the United States is a history textbook that offers comprehensive alternative perspectives on American history. Along with his scholarly works in historical science, Zinn also published three theater plays including “Marx in Soho”.
On realeyz.tv, you can watch CLASS DISMISSED , Howard Zinn’s Paper Tiger video that discusses the way history is taught US schools. Howard Zinn also gives a statement in AXIS OF EVIL, a film that looks at the way politics defines “evil”. (more…)
Howard Zinn
Howard Zinn (born August 24, 1922) is an American historian, political scientist, social critic, activist, playwright, and Democratic Socialist intellectual, best known as author of the bestseller A People’s History of the United States.
Zinn has been active in the movements for Civil Rights, Civil Liberties and the anti-war movements in the United States. He has written extensively on all three subjects. (more…)
