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Remembering Howard Zinn

Last Wednesday January 27th, American progressives lost a hero – Howard Zinn, who pioneered a genre of history called People’s History – stories of our nation’s past told from the perspective of ordinary people, poor people, women, people of color, and others. His seminal book A People’s History of the United States, which sold well over a million copies, influenced countless people …

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“Revolutionary change does not come as one cataclysmic moment (beware of such moments!) but as an endless succession of surprises, moving zigzag toward a more decent society. We don’t have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can quietly become a power no government can suppress, a power that can transform the world.” — Howard Zinn, A Power Governments Cannot Supress …