Our history
: Sandy Boyer The story of the San Patricios--Irish soldiers who left the U.S. Army to fight for Mexico in the 1846 war--is an important but hidden story of resistance to empire.
March 19, 2010 The practice of cloaking military invasions in idealistic garb has a long history--to hide the real aims of conquest, colonization and exploitation.
February 23, 2010 Howard Zinn embodied the understanding that the experience of being part of struggle alongside and for others is the most meaningful life one can live.
February 12, 2010 : Stuart Easterling The right wing used Howard Zinn's death as an opportunity to spew vitriol, but some mainstream historians are also dismissing his work.
February 11, 2010 : Marlene Martin To know that Howard Zinn was a part of our struggle made people stand a little taller and feel a little more committed and confident about our fight.
February 5, 2010 Anyone who spent any time with Howard Zinn knows of his tremendous generosity of spirit, and of course, his legendary humor.
February 5, 2010 : Brian Jones The civil rights movement's lunch counter sit-ins--direct action protests against a hated symbol of Jim Crow segregation--began 50 years ago today.
February 1, 2010 : Dave Zirin With Howard Zinn's death, we lose a man who did nothing less than rewrite the narrative of the United States.
January 29, 2010 : Howard Zinn He taught millions about the hidden history of resistance in America--and he was a fixture of countless struggles for justice and equality.
January 28, 2010 A rebellion of slaves in the ancient world still thrills us today with its size--and the way it humbled the greatest empire of its day.
January 15, 2010 A conservative Web site accused the "people's historian" of perpetrating a distorted "version" of history, but it's the truth that they're scared of.
December 16, 2009 : Dave Zirin The People Speak debuts this Sunday--the work of "people's historian" Howard Zinn brought to life by an incredible collection of performers.
December 11, 2009 : Vicky Starr The union organizer and socialist featured in the documentary Union Maids died on Thanksgiving Day at the age of 93.
December 9, 2009 In 1989, swarms of demonstrators danced on the Berlin Wall. Today, the commemoration of those dramatic events involves dull statesmen sitting in rows.
November 30, 2009 : Paul D'Amato The myths about the "first Thanksgiving" are meant to sanitize history and turn the conquest of the Americas into a benign national origin story.
November 25, 2009 The fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago was one crest in a wave of revolt that overturned governments across half of Europe at the end of 1989.
November 12, 2009 Long before the fall of the Berlin Wall, there was a history of workers' struggle against the self-described Communist regimes of Eastern Europe.
November 6, 2009 The regimes of Eastern Europe that collapsed 20 years after a series of mass rebellions were the opposite of what we mean by socialism.
November 3, 2009 : Helen Keller When politicians gathered at the Capitol for the unveiling of a statue of Helen Keller, they left out an important fact--Keller was a socialist.
October 18, 2009 : Truman Nelson One hundred and fifty years ago today, a band of men led by John Brown launched an armed attack they hoped would spark an uprising against slavery.
October 15, 2009 : Dahr Jamail and Jason Coppola The myths taught to America about Christopher Columbus' "discovery" of America are a cover for inconceivable acts of violence.
October 14, 2009 : Marek Edelman Marek Edelman, the last surviving leader of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, passed away on October 2 at the age of 90.
October 11, 2009 The three victorious strikes that paved the way for the struggles to come in the 1930s were led by radicals dedicated to solidarity and rank-and-file democracy.
October 5, 2009 The history of the Teamster Rebellion in Minneapolis is packed with lessons, especially the importance of mobilizing a militant rank and file.
September 28, 2009 The San Francisco General Strike in July 1934 involved 200,000 workers up and down the West Coast, making it the largest general strike in U.S. history.
September 20, 2009
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