If those in charge of our society – politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television – can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.
- Bill Moyers interviews Howard Zinn, December 11, 2009.
Howard Zinn, historian who challenged status quo, dies at 87
Mark Feeney and Bryan Marquard
Boston Globe
January 28, 2010
Howard Zinn, the Boston University historian and political activist who was an early opponent of US involvement in Vietnam and whose books, such as “A People’s History of the United States,” inspired young and old to rethink the way textbooks present the American experience, died today in Santa Monica, Calif, where he was traveling. He was 87…
A Memory of Howard Zinn
Daniel Ellsberg
Antiwar.com
January 27, 2010
