
A People’s History, Urgent Lessons for the Present
Season 3 Episode 338 | 26m 45sVideo has Closed Captions
What lessons can we take from Howard Zinn’s model of history for this time?
Historian Howard Zinn would have turned 100 in 2022. His monumental work, A People’s History of the United States, published in 1980, continues to have an impact today. For Zinn’s’ centennial we explore what made his model of history different with three guests who were influenced by his bottom-up approach. What lessons can we take from Howard Zinn’s model of history for this time?
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A People’s History, Urgent Lessons for the Present
Season 3 Episode 338 | 26m 45sVideo has Closed Captions
Historian Howard Zinn would have turned 100 in 2022. His monumental work, A People’s History of the United States, published in 1980, continues to have an impact today. For Zinn’s’ centennial we explore what made his model of history different with three guests who were influenced by his bottom-up approach. What lessons can we take from Howard Zinn’s model of history for this time?
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