Howard Zinn Lecture Series: Howard Zinn, Bringing Democracy Alive

Hosted by College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

In the first lecture of a new annual series bearing his name, Howard Zinn, professor emeritus of political science at Boston University and author of A People’s History of the United States, calls for the impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard Cheney. Zinn accuses the Bush administration of starting a “war of aggression” against Iraq and the American public. He argues that the government and its “warmongering” organs — mass media and the congress — are not to be relied on for information and exhorts Americans to stop believing that government has the interest of the people in mind.

Alex H. MacDonald (CAS’72), a former student of Zinn’s who made the lead gift endowing the Howard Zinn Lectureship Fund, eloquently introduces Zinn, and Maureen Strafford (MED’76), MacDonald’s wife, adds some final words.

A question-and-answer session follows the lecture.

November 2, 2006, 7 p.m.
Tsai Performance Center

Video length is 01:47:49

About the speaker:
Howard Zinn, a professor emeritus of political science at Boston University, historian, and war critic, is the author of A People’s History of the United States, a book both lauded and derided for telling American history from the perspective of minorities, immigrants, laborers, and others Zinn feels had been excluded from traditional textbooks.

Born in Brooklyn to Jewish immigrants, the former shipyard worker was a bombardier in World War II, attended New York University on the G.I. Bill, and taught at the all-black women’s Spelman College from 1956 until 1963, when he was fired for encouraging students to fight segregation. Zinn taught at BU from 1964 until his retirement in 1988.

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