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Howard Zinn, the historian who challenged the establishment.
by Mark Feeney (Boston Globe columnist)
31/01/1910 Howard Zinn, a historian at Boston University, political activist, early opponent of U.S. intervention in Vietnam and one of the leading critics of the president of Boston University, John Silber, has died of a heart attack in Santa Monica (California) during a trip, according to his family reported. He was 87.
"His writings have changed the consciousness of a generation and helped to break new ground in understanding and the crucial significance of our lives, "he once wrote, Noam Chomsky, activist American left and MIT professor. "When I was called into action, one could always be sure that he would be at the forefront. An example and a guide on which one could trust. "
For Dr. Zinn, activism was a natural extension of the revision of history taught in their classes. The best-known book Zinn, A People's History of the United States (1980) was not heroes to the Founding Fathers, many of them slaveholders and deeply linked to the status quo, as Dr. Zinn stated at the beginning of the play, but the farmers of Shay's Rebellion and the union leaders of the thirties.
As he wrote in his autobiography, You Can not Be Neutral on a Moving Train (1994), "my classes were lively from the beginning of my own history. Not only be fair to other views, but also wanted to offer something more than "objectivity" wanted the students leave my class better informed, but better prepared to relinquish the comfort of silence, more ready to speak, to act against injustice wherever to see. This was, of course, a good recipe for trouble. "
was certainly a recipe for dispute between the Zinn and Silber. Zinn on two occasions helped to direct the vote of its power to impeach the president of Boston University, who, in turn, accused Dr. Zinn of fire (a charge which he quickly retreated) and quoted him as prime example of "those who poison all that is good in the academic world."
Dr. Zinn was vice president of the committee to strike when the teachers at the Boston University went on strike in 1979. When the strike ended, he and four colleagues were charged of violating its contract by failing to cross a picket secretaries. The charges against the "five of the University of Boston" were soon withdrawn.
Howard Zinn was born in New York on August 24, 1922, son of a Jewish immigrant couple, Edward Zinn, a waiter by profession, and Jennie (Rabinowitz) Zinn, a homemaker. He attended public school in New York and worked in the shipyards of Brooklyn before being enlisted in the Air Force during the Second World War, he served in a bomber of the Eighth, attaining the rank of lieutenant and earning the Medal of air.
After the war, Zinn worked in a series of minor offices until he entered the University of New York thanks to the GI Bill, 27 years. Professor Zinn, who had married Roslyn Schechter in 1944, worked nights loading trucks at a warehouse to pay for her studies. Graduated from the University of New York, he continued his doctoral studies at Columbia University. He was assistant professor at Uppsala University and visiting professor at Brooklyn College before teaching class at Spelman College in Atlanta in 1956 in the history department, teaching a course on the history of African American women. Among his students was the novelist Alice Walker, who called it "the best teacher I ever had, "and Marian Wright Edelman, the future president of the Children's Defense Foundation.
During this time Dr. Zinn was an active participant in the civil rights movement. He was a member of the coordinating committee of students to non-violence, the organization most militant of all the civil rights era, and participated in numerous demonstrations.
Dr. Zinn became an assistant professor of political science at Boston University in 1964, where he was appointed professor in 1966.
His activism led him to run against Vietnam War. Zinn participated in numerous lectures and teach-ins, and attracted nationwide attention when he and another prominent anti-war, the Rev. Daniel Berrigan, visited Hanoi in 1968 to meet with three prisoners released by the North Vietnamese.
Dr. Zinn's involvement in the anti-war movement led him to publish two books: Vietnam: The Logic of Withdrawal (1967), Disobedience and Democracy (1968). Previously published LaGuardia in Congress (1959), which won an award from the Albert J. History Association Beveridge, SNCC: The New Abolitionists (1964), The Southern Mystique (1964) and New Deal Thought (1966). Dr. Zinn was also the author of The Politics of History (1970), Postwar America (1973), Justice in Everiday Life (1974) and Declarations of Independence (1990).
Zinn in 1988 temporarily withdrew from the university to give lectures and write. In recent years he devoted himself primarily to writing plays, of which the scene took Emma, \u200b\u200bon the anarchist leader Emma Goldman, and Daughter of Venus.
Dr. Zinn (or rather: the main book) made a cameo in the 1997 film Good Will Hunting, when the eponymous protagonist played by Matt Damon A People's History commends and encourages the character played by Robin Williams to read. Damon, who co-wrote the screenplay for the film, was a resident of Zinn as a child. Damon occur years after the television version of The People Speak, which aired on the History Channel in 2009. Damon was also the narrator of the documentary biography of Zinn: Hozard Zinn: You Can not Be Neutral on a Moving Train.
His last day of school at Boston University, Howard Zinn finished thirty minutes before class to join a picket and encouraged the 500 students in his class to join him. One hundred did.
Dr. Zinn's wife died in 2008. Zinn leaves a daughter, Myla Kabat-Zinn in Lexington, a son, Jeff of Wellfleet, three granddaughters and two grandsons.
T. NOTE: There is a English translation of the two books cited in this text: No one is neutral on a moving train (Hondarribia, Argiletxe Hiru, 2001). Translation Berdagué Roser Costa, The History of the United States (Hondarribia, Argiletxe Hiru, 1997). Toni Translation Strubel.
Howard Zinn, the historian who challenged the establishment.
by Mark Feeney (Boston Globe columnist)
31/01/1910 Howard Zinn, a historian at Boston University, political activist, early opponent of U.S. intervention in Vietnam and one of the leading critics of the president of Boston University, John Silber, has died of a heart attack in Santa Monica (California) during a trip, according to his family reported. He was 87.
"His writings have changed the consciousness of a generation and helped to break new ground in understanding and the crucial significance of our lives, "he once wrote, Noam Chomsky, activist American left and MIT professor. "When I was called into action, one could always be sure that he would be at the forefront. An example and a guide on which one could trust. "
For Dr. Zinn, activism was a natural extension of the revision of history taught in their classes. The best-known book Zinn, A People's History of the United States (1980) was not heroes to the Founding Fathers, many of them slaveholders and deeply linked to the status quo, as Dr. Zinn stated at the beginning of the play, but the farmers of Shay's Rebellion and the union leaders of the thirties.
As he wrote in his autobiography, You Can not Be Neutral on a Moving Train (1994), "my classes were lively from the beginning of my own history. Not only be fair to other views, but also wanted to offer something more than "objectivity" wanted the students leave my class better informed, but better prepared to relinquish the comfort of silence, more ready to speak, to act against injustice wherever to see. This was, of course, a good recipe for trouble. "
was certainly a recipe for dispute between the Zinn and Silber. Zinn on two occasions helped to direct the vote of its power to impeach the president of Boston University, who, in turn, accused Dr. Zinn of fire (a charge which he quickly retreated) and quoted him as prime example of "those who poison all that is good in the academic world."
Dr. Zinn was vice president of the committee to strike when the teachers at the Boston University went on strike in 1979. When the strike ended, he and four colleagues were charged of violating its contract by failing to cross a picket secretaries. The charges against the "five of the University of Boston" were soon withdrawn.
Howard Zinn was born in New York on August 24, 1922, son of a Jewish immigrant couple, Edward Zinn, a waiter by profession, and Jennie (Rabinowitz) Zinn, a homemaker. He attended public school in New York and worked in the shipyards of Brooklyn before being enlisted in the Air Force during the Second World War, he served in a bomber of the Eighth, attaining the rank of lieutenant and earning the Medal of air.
After the war, Zinn worked in a series of minor offices until he entered the University of New York thanks to the GI Bill, 27 years. Professor Zinn, who had married Roslyn Schechter in 1944, worked nights loading trucks at a warehouse to pay for her studies. Graduated from the University of New York, he continued his doctoral studies at Columbia University. He was assistant professor at Uppsala University and visiting professor at Brooklyn College before teaching class at Spelman College in Atlanta in 1956 in the history department, teaching a course on the history of African American women. Among his students was the novelist Alice Walker, who called it "the best teacher I ever had, "and Marian Wright Edelman, the future president of the Children's Defense Foundation.
During this time Dr. Zinn was an active participant in the civil rights movement. He was a member of the coordinating committee of students to non-violence, the organization most militant of all the civil rights era, and participated in numerous demonstrations.
Dr. Zinn became an assistant professor of political science at Boston University in 1964, where he was appointed professor in 1966.
His activism led him to run against Vietnam War. Zinn participated in numerous lectures and teach-ins, and attracted nationwide attention when he and another prominent anti-war, the Rev. Daniel Berrigan, visited Hanoi in 1968 to meet with three prisoners released by the North Vietnamese.
Dr. Zinn's involvement in the anti-war movement led him to publish two books: Vietnam: The Logic of Withdrawal (1967), Disobedience and Democracy (1968). Previously published LaGuardia in Congress (1959), which won an award from the Albert J. History Association Beveridge, SNCC: The New Abolitionists (1964), The Southern Mystique (1964) and New Deal Thought (1966). Dr. Zinn was also the author of The Politics of History (1970), Postwar America (1973), Justice in Everiday Life (1974) and Declarations of Independence (1990).
Zinn in 1988 temporarily withdrew from the university to give lectures and write. In recent years he devoted himself primarily to writing plays, of which the scene took Emma, \u200b\u200bon the anarchist leader Emma Goldman, and Daughter of Venus.
Dr. Zinn (or rather: the main book) made a cameo in the 1997 film Good Will Hunting, when the eponymous protagonist played by Matt Damon A People's History commends and encourages the character played by Robin Williams to read. Damon, who co-wrote the screenplay for the film, was a resident of Zinn as a child. Damon occur years after the television version of The People Speak, which aired on the History Channel in 2009. Damon was also the narrator of the documentary biography of Zinn: Hozard Zinn: You Can not Be Neutral on a Moving Train.
His last day of school at Boston University, Howard Zinn finished thirty minutes before class to join a picket and encouraged the 500 students in his class to join him. One hundred did.
Dr. Zinn's wife died in 2008. Zinn leaves a daughter, Myla Kabat-Zinn in Lexington, a son, Jeff of Wellfleet, three granddaughters and two grandsons.
T. NOTE: There is a English translation of the two books cited in this text: No one is neutral on a moving train (Hondarribia, Argiletxe Hiru, 2001). Translation Berdagué Roser Costa, The History of the United States (Hondarribia, Argiletxe Hiru, 1997). Toni Translation Strubel.
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