Remembering Howard Zinn
On Wednesday, historian and PA advisory board member Howard Zinn passed away. In his memory, we urge you to check out this great tribute to Zinn from the Nation.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=subwDAZtEN0&feature=player_embedded]“Zinn’s brand of history put common citizens at the center of the story and inspired generations of young activists and academics to remember that change is possible. As he wrote in his autobiography, You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train (1994), “From the start, my teaching was infused with my own history. I would try to be fair to other points of view, but I wanted more than ‘objectivity’; I wanted students to leave my classes not just better informed, but more prepared to relinquish the safety of silence, more prepared to speak up, to act against injustice wherever they saw it. This, of course, was a recipe for trouble.”