{"id":1486,"date":"2010-01-27T23:35:20","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T07:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2010\/01\/howard_zinn_-_now_more_than_ev\/"},"modified":"2010-01-27T23:35:20","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T07:35:20","slug":"howard_zinn_-_now_more_than_ev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2010\/01\/howard_zinn_-_now_more_than_ev.html","title":{"rendered":"Howard Zinn – now more than ever"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zinn<\/a> died Wednesday of a heart attack. He was 87. Boston Globe obit here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If American history is hard to read, it’s because the country’s aspirations fall so far short of its practices. Textbooks tend to respond with cover-ups, but not ones written by Zinn. A<\/i> People’s History of the United States<\/i><\/a> is a courage teacher. Not only is it scholarly, clear and elegantly written from
\noriginal
\nsource materials, its focus is justice: how and when it was denied and
\nhow and when it was achieved. His outrage is accompanied by his
\nhope, wit and patriotism.<\/p>\n

Below, a scene from Deb Ellis and Denis Mueller’s fine documentary titled, Howard Zinn:<\/i> You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train<\/i>.
\n(To purchase, go here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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Zinn died Wednesday of a heart attack. He was 87. Boston Globe obit here. If American history is hard to read, it’s because the country’s aspirations fall so far short of its practices. Textbooks tend to respond with cover-ups, but not ones written by Zinn. A People’s History of the United States is a courage […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}