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…)