Author: Bill Bigelow
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Howard Zinn at 90 — Lessons from the People's Historian
Bill Bigelow Common Dreams This Friday — August 24 — would have been the 90th birthday of the great historian and activist Howard Zinn, who died in 2010. Zinn did not merely record history, he made it: as a professor at Spelman College in the 1950s and early 1960s, where he was ultimately fired for…