Posts tagged “howard zinn”
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Howard Zinn on Bill Moyers Journal
December 11, 2009
Howard Zinn will appear on Bill Moyers Journal Friday night to talk about his new film The People Speak, the historical sources that inspired it, and more. Friday, December 11 at 9pm ET; check local listings here.
Tags: bill moyers, howard zinn, interviews, pbs, television, voices of a people's history
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Harris Yulin and Q’orianka Kilcher on Howard Zinn and The People Speak
December 10, 2009
On December 10, actors Harris Yulin and Q’orianka Kilcher joined GRITtv to talk about The People Speak, Howard Zinn, and the experience of bringing Voices of a People’s History to life. See the video below.
Tags: grittv, harris yulin, howard zinn, laura flanders, qorianka kilcher, the people speak, videos, voices of a people's history
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Zinn Reader reviewed at This Week at the Library
November 24, 2009
The Zinn Readeris one man’s commentary on his and the United States’ history and development. Zinn is a character in a larger story, responding to the historical events that unfold around him. Zinn is very much involved with history: for him, the idea that the historian is and must be neutral is wrong, fallacious even. Historians, and scholars in general, have the right and duty as human beings to respond to what is happening in their world — to champion the causes they see as righteous and to attack with fervency what injustice and lies they can. — This Week at the Library
Tags: blogs, howard zinn, reviews, this week at the library, zinn reader
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The People Speak to air on HISTORY in December
October 22, 2009
From Dr. Libby H. O’Connell’s article on Howard Zinn and The People Speak from History magazine:
If our textbooks present the story of America only through the eyes of its generals and presidents, Zinn argues, it gives “a distorted view of the past.” Certainly he provides a powerful counterbalance to the hero-centric approach of traditional textbooks. In 2004 Zinn joined with Dr. Anthony Arnove to publish a collection of primary source documents titled Voices of a People’s History of the United States, an academic bestseller on college and high school campuses. The materials range across the length of American history and feature letters, petitions, poems, speeches, and songs from “women and slaves, immigrants and youth, soldiers and students.”
Zinn and Arnove began to organize public performances of selections from Voices in 2003, before its official release, when A People’s History of the United States sold its 1 millionth copy (it has now surpassed the 2 million mark). Today, Voices brings alive the words and emotions of the past with songs and dramatic readings performed by well-established artists. At a presentation this past May celebrating the publication of A Young People’s History of the United States in New York City, seven performers gave new life to the words of famous dissenters — such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frederick Douglass, and Martin Luther King Jr. — and lesser known, but equally stirring, voices from the past. . . It is performances like this in theaters around the country that inspired the latest incarnation of Zinn’s work, The People Speak. Scheduled to air on HISTORY in December 2009, the film weaves archival footage and interviews with performances by actors and artists such as Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Kerry Washington, Viggo Mortensen, Danny Glover, Marisa Tomei, Bruce Springsteen, and John Legend.
Tags: anthony arnove, history, howard zinn, matt damon, morgan freeman, television, the people speak, voices of a people's history
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The History Channel Magazine on Voices of a People’s History and The People Speak
September 9, 2009
From the September/October issue of The History Channel Magazine:
Author, historian, teacher, activist, and now television producer Dr. Howard Zinn is a man on a mission. He wants Americans to recognize the power of protest in shaping their country’s history. Along with executive producers Matt Damon, Chris Moore, Josh Brolin, and Anthony Arnove, he is moving his message from high schools and college campuses to film and, later this year, to HISTORY.
Tags: anthony arnove, articles, films, history channel magazine, howard zinn, the people speak, voices of a people's history
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Premium Editions at Seven Stories Press
August 5, 2009
Seven Stories Press is now offering first editions, signed copies, and other premium editions of many of our most popular and beloved books, including God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian, Dark Alliance, A Young People’s History of the United States, and…
Tags: barry gifford, dark alliance, gary webb, god bless you dr kevorkian, howard zinn, kurt vonnegut, lee stringer, man without a country, rare books
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Spotlight on Teaching for Change
June 17, 2009
Since 1989, Teaching for Change has worked to bring politics and political awareness into classrooms in the Washington DC area and around the nation. Through its grass-roots programs on removing bias from education and on promoting multiracial parent involvement in schools,…
Tags: howard zinn, rethinking education, teaching for change, zinn education project
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Teaching for Change and Howard Zinn
June 9, 2009
Since 1989, Teaching for Change has worked to bring politics and political awareness into classrooms in the Washington DC area and around the nation. Through its grass-roots programs on removing bias from education and on promoting multiracial parent involvement in schools, as well as through its DC-area bookstore/restaurant/community performance space Busboys and Poets, Teaching for Change is one of the rare organizations that recognizes that turning people into responsible, socially-aware citizens can’t happen through disseminating information alone: teachers and activists must become directly involved in the community.
Along with Rethinking Schools — publishers of the secondary school teachers’ guidebook, A People’s History for the Classroom, and partners with Teaching for Change in the Zinn Education Project — Teaching for Change is definitely a group that any Seven Stories fellow-travelers—or anyone interested in the possibility of introducing social values into the often-static public education system—will want to be aware of.
Tags: a people's history for the classroom, bill bigelow, busboys and poets, howard zinn, rethinking schools, teaching for change, voices of a people's history
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Pictures from Howard Zinn & Voices at the 92nd Street Y, May 13 2009
May 27, 2009
Thanks to everyone who came out two weeks ago to the 92nd Street Y to hear Howard Zinn and friends read in support of the new one-volume updated edition of Howard Zinn’s A Young People’s History of the United States. For pictures from the event, take a look at the full article.
Tags: 92nd street y, a young people's history of the united states, amber tamblyn, anthony arnove, Authors, avery brooks, brian jones, evann orleck-jetter, howard zinn, photos, pictures, shontina vernon, staceyann chin, tim robbins, voices of a people's history
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Howard Zinn and Voices of a People’s History at the 92nd Street Y
May 13, 2009
Monday, May 13 at 8:00 PM, 92nd Street Y in New York City. Howard Zinn and Voices of a People’s History offer a special performance in support of the publication of the paperback addition of A Young People’s History of the…
Tags: 92nd street y, Authors, howard zinn, readings, young people's history
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Howard Zinn on Democracy Now
May 13, 2009
Howard Zinn—author with Rebecca Stefoff of A Young People’s History of the United States, now updated and in paperback, plus many other books—appeared this morning on Democracy Now to discuss, among other things: Barack Obama, the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr, his new book with Seven Stories, the Voices of a People’s History project, and his appearance tonight at the 92nd Street Y in New York. Take a look below.
Tags: 92nd street y, Authors, howard zinn, interviews, new york city, readings, rebecca stefoff, television, voices of a people's history, voices of a people's history of the united states, young people's history of the united states
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Howard Zinn leads performance at the Brattle Theater in honor of A Young People’s History of the United States
May 7, 2009
Thursday, May 7 at the Brattle Theater on Harvard Square. For more information, please check http://www.brattlefilm.org/brattlefilm/movie_detail/090507.html.
Tags: Authors, harvard, howard zinn, readings, young people's history
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The People Speak to air on History
April 16, 2009
The People Speak, the documentary based on Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove’s Voices of a People’s History, will premiere on History in 2009.
Tags: anthony arnove, bruce springsteen, films, history tv, howard zinn, josh brolin, matt damon, television, voices from a people's history, voices of a people's history
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Howard Zinn, Lou Bellamy and Winona LaDuke with Voices of a People’s History in St. Paul
April 6, 2009
April 6, 7pm, O’Shaughnessy Auditorium, College of St. Catherine, 2004 Randolph Avenue, St. Paul MN.
Howard Zinn, Lou Bellamy, Winona LaDuke, Dipankar Mukherjee, Tou Ger Xiong, Isabell Monk O’Connor and many more will give voice to unsung people who have…
Tags: Authors, college of st catherine, howard zinn, lou bellamy, minnesota, readings, st paul, voices from a people's history, voices of a people's history, winona laduke
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Howard Zinn interviewed on AlterNet
March 13, 2009
Liliana Segura from Alternet recently spoke to Howard Zinn over the phone about the Voices of a People’s History performances he helped to conceive—and about his belief that the Obama administration will require “demonstrations and protest and letters and petitions” in order to be a true force for change.
Tags: alternet, anthony arnove, Authors, howard zinn, interviews, obama, voices of a people's history
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Trailer Released for “The People Speak”
March 3, 2009
Voices of a People’s History of the United States have released a trailer for the upcoming documentary “The People Speak”, directed by Howard Zinn, Anthony Arnove and Chris Moore.
Tags: films, howard zinn, News, voices from a people's history
“howard zinn” Posts
- Dec 11, Howard Zinn on Bill Moyers Journal
- Dec 10, Harris Yulin and Q’orianka Kilcher on Howard Zinn and The People Speak
- Nov 24, Zinn Reader reviewed at This Week at the Library
- Oct 22, The People Speak to air on HISTORY in December
- Sep 9, The History Channel Magazine on Voices of a People’s History and The People Speak
- Jun 17, Spotlight on Teaching for Change
- Jun 9, Teaching for Change and Howard Zinn
- Apr 16, The People Speak to air on History
- Mar 3, Trailer Released for “The People Speak”
