Zinn's History
(Fist bump for Monty)
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The Right Breathes a Collective Sigh of Relief
(More Monty Missives)
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Silber triumphant!
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CitiZinn Howard
(Joe M. joins the party)
Howard Zinn, historian and activist who opposed dictatorships established in Vietnam by the United States and at Boston University by John Silber, has died of a heart attack at the age of 87. Zinn’s best-known book, "A People's History of the United States," name checked by his neighbor Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting, espoused the positions that Christopher Columbus was a genocidal madman, Theodore Roosevelt was a warmonger, Abraham Lincoln was racist and the Founding Fathers were slaveholders with no real interest in freedom. Instead, Zinn championed feminists, the farmers of Shays' Rebellion and the union organizers of the 1930s. His antiestablishment leanings put him at odds with BU president Silber, and Zinn twice helped lead faculty votes to oust the BU president, who in turn accused Zinn of arson and cited him as a prime example of teachers "who poison the well of academe."