Last Straw

The Boston Globe’s obit­u­ary:

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.

AK Press Blog inter­view with Howard Zinn:

Since most mainstream/Left/liberal accounts of Howard Zinn’s leg­acy are likely to gloss over the man’s actual polit­ics, here’s a 2008 inter­view by AK author, Ziga Vodovnik.