Howard Zinn began work on his first book for his friends at Seven
Stories Press in 1996, a big volume collecting all his shorter
writings organized by subject. The themes he chose reflected his
lifelong concerns: war, history, law, class, means and ends, and
race. Throughout his life Zinn had returned again and again to
these subjects, continually probing and questioning yet rarely
reversing his convictions or the vision that informed them. The
result was The Zinn Reader. Five years later, starting with Howard
Zinn on History, updated editions of sections of that mammoth tome
were published in inexpensive stand-alone editions. This second
edition of Howard Zinn on History brings together twenty-seven
short writings on activism, electoral politics, the Holocaust,
Marxism, the Iraq War, and the role of the historian, as well as
portraits of Eugene Debs, John Reed, and Jack London, effectively
showing how Zinn's approach to history evolved over nearly half a
century, and at the same time sharing his fundamental thinking that
social movements--people getting together for peace and social
justice--can change the course of history. That core belief never
changed. Chosen by Zinn himself as the shorter writings on history
he believed to have enduring value--originally appearing in
newspapers like the Boston Globe or the New York Times; in
magazines like Z, the New Left, the Progressive, or the Nation; or
in his book Failure to Quit--these essays appear here as examples
of the kind of passionate engagement he believed all historians,
and indeed all citizens of whatever profession, need to have,
standing in sharp contrast to the notion of "objective" or
"neutral" history espoused by some. "It is time that we scholars
begin to earn our keep in this world," he writes in "The Uses of
Scholarship." And in "Freedom Schools," about his experiences
teaching in Mississippi during the remarkable "Freedom Summer" of
1964, he adds: "Education can, and should, be dangerous."
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