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10 Years After: How Not to Teach About the Iraq War

Bill Bigelow | Posted 05.18.2013 | Books
Bill Bigelow

At least in a formal sense, our country's memories of war are to be found in school history textbooks. Exactly a decade after the U.S. invasion, those texts are indeed sending "messages" to young people about the meaning of the U.S. war in Iraq.

Obama Oratory vs. Obama Reality

Norman Solomon | Posted 03.25.2013 | Politics
Norman Solomon

Despite often nice-sounding rhetoric from the president, this administration has continued with a wide range of policies antithetical to progressive values.

Obama Asks America to Learn the Radical Lessons of Seneca Falls, Selma and Stonewall

Peter Dreier | Posted 03.23.2013 | Politics
Peter Dreier

In evoking the battles at Seneca Falls, Selma and Stonewall -- and in selecting Evers, Blanco, and Rev. Leon to participate in the ceremony -- Obama was reminding Americans that the progress toward a better society is made primarily by people working together through social movements.

Howard Zinn's Legacy

John Tirman | Posted 03.06.2013 | Books
John Tirman

When Howard Zinn died two years ago, obituaries commonly focused on A People's History and his activism. But as Martin Duberman smartly lays out in his new biography about Zinn, his activism tended to overshadow his considerable intellectual achievements.

"You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train."

Steven Biel | Posted 10.23.2012 | Politics
Steven Biel

After more than 1,000 signatures and a wave of media coverage, Gov. Markell came out against the rules, protecting drinking water for more than 15 million people. That's just the tip of the iceberg, and the movement is growing every day. So how is this different from Change.org?

PHOTOS: Rare Pictures Of Young Howard Zinn

Posted 08.24.2012 | Books

The following is an excerpt from "Howard Zinn: A Life on the Left" by Martin Duberman [The New Press, $26.95]: Howard was a person of considerable ...

Howard Zinn at 90: Lessons From the People's Historian

Bill Bigelow | Posted 10.21.2012 | Home
Bill Bigelow

As we remember Howard Zinn on what would have been his 90th birthday, let's count him among the many social justice heroes who offer proof that people's efforts make a difference -- that ordinary people can change the world.

Tucson's Mexican American Studies Director Sean Arce Wins National Zinn Education Award

Jeff Biggers | Posted 06.03.2012 | Home
Jeff Biggers

While the Daily Show brilliantly reminded millions of viewers last night of the disgraceful racist elements behind the attack on Tucson's acclaimed and now outlawed Mexican American Studies program, educators across the nation recalled a teaching moment.

Joseph Erbentraut

Local Poet On Howard Zinn And Why The Time For Change Is Now

HuffingtonPost.com | Joseph Erbentraut | Posted 01.30.2012 | Chicago

"To live now, as human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory." Though the late historian Howa...

PHOTOS: 10 Uplifting Books For Lonely Souls

flavorwire.com | Posted 07.16.2011 | Books

In response to Russ Marshalek’s excellent post on devastatingly sad books last week, we’ve decided to try and lift your spirits a little during th...

PHOTOS: HuffPost Editors' Picks, Books We're Loving Right Now

Posted 06.30.2011 | Books

The reporters and editors on the Huffington Post staff are serious book lovers and we wanted to know what they're reading and loving now, hoping that ...

I Am Review: Hollywood Director Exlores What's Right with the World

Dan Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Dan Siegel

As the world is transfixed by remarkable change in the Middle East, America's popcorn culture distracts us with another Nicholas Cage road rage movie ...

HuffPost Review: I Am

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Marshall Fine

As I watched Tom Shadyac's documentary I Am., I wondered: Does it take a near-death experience to open our eyes to the wonder of life and force us to reckon our place in the world?

Remembering Howard Zinn

Josh Brolin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Josh Brolin

The impact that Howard Zinn has had on the world of fair, conscientious people is profound, and the impact that he had as a friend will be forever felt by me and by all those that knew him.

Remembering Howard Zinn: Power to the People's History

Sam Chaltain | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Sam Chaltain

It was one year ago today -- January 27, 2010 -- that Howard Zinn died at the age of 85.

Afghanistan Is About Perpetual War

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Harvey Wasserman

The war in Afghanistan is about perpetual war, not Afghanistan. It's about preventing democracy in the United States, not bringing it to Southwest ...

Electoral Reform: 1 Page 9 Points

Robert David Steele | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Robert David Steele

Since the year 2000, when I watched in horror as Al Gore took the dive and played dead in Florida (the theft was exposed three months before the fact ...

'Soul Of A Citizen': Arun Gandhi, Martin Luther King, And Looking Beyond The Impossibly Perfect Standard

Paul Loeb | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Paul Loeb

From reining in Wall Street to preventing the next oil spill and tackling global climate change, we often hold back from taking important public stands because we're caught in a trap I call "the perfect standard."

Iraq: Time for a People's History

James Denselow | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
James Denselow

Obama's attempts to announce victory in Iraq and the release of Blair's book came as the vacuum that followed Iraq's attempts to form a government approached a six-month hiatus.

2010 Workers' Voice Awards: Worker Worthy Pop Culture Standouts

Wyatt Closs | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Wyatt Closs

Wanna honor Labor Day but not work at it? Check out any of these pop culture expressions from the last year. Just in time for your nod to Labor Day, ...

Worker Worthy Standouts: The Best Films About Work for Labor Day 2010

Wyatt Closs | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Wyatt Closs

There's a blog to be written about Greatest Films of All-Time about Workers and work themes but for now, lets look at those made or released in the last year. In terms of feature films, there are 5 standouts.

Howard Zinn's Unwholesome Influence

Sean Paige | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Sean Paige

The really damning element of the Zinn saga isn't that he wrote books, but that these became textbooks, which were warmly and uncritically received by the public school establishment.

Time To Declare War on Big: Killing America's Giants

Rob Kall | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Rob Kall

Big corporations destroy cultures.

Johnny Appleseed of Joy

Michael Sigman | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Michael Sigman

I first met the author and meditation teacher James Baraz five years ago at a silent Metta ("loving kindness") retreat at the Spirit Rock Meditation C...

A People's History of Arizona: What Would Howard Zinn Say?

Ian Moss | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Ian Moss

While clad in the rhetoric of equality, these latest pieces of legislation represent anything but. Instead, both the immigration and the ethnic studies laws themselves represent ethnic chauvinism by the Arizona state government.