Tag Archives: Howard Zinn
Wednesday’s Book Review: “A People’s History of Sports in the United States”
A People’s History of Sports in the United States. By Dave Zirin. New York: The New Press, 2008. I have appreciated Howard Zinn’s People’s History of the United States since I was first exposed to it. I have also been … Continue reading
Wednesday’s Book Review: “The Twentieth Century: A People’s History”
The Twentieth Century: A People’s History. By Howard Zinn. New York: HarperCollins, 2003. No historian of the United States has been more provocative than Howard Zinn (1922–2010), whose leftist philosophy permeated his writings and never failed to challenge his readers. … Continue reading
Mormon Nauvoo and the Question of Class and Power
This, of course, gets to the really interesting questions of power: who holds it, and more important why they hold it and how they use it. There should be no question, of course, that social, economic, educational, institutional, and other … Continue reading
