Labor Day is a good time to pay tribute to the late Howard Zinn, a rebel historian who broke with the tedious orthodoxy of “patriotic” history to tell the tale of those consigned to the bottom of the ...

Purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Columbus and Las Casas -- The first slaves -- Servitude and rebellion -- Preparing the revolution -- Half a revolution -- The early women's ...

1. Columbus, the Indians, and human progress -- 2. Drawing the color line -- 3. Persons of mean and vile condition -- 4. Tyranny Is tyranny -- 5. A Kind of revolution -- 6. The intimately oppressed -- ...

Howard Zinn, legendary historian, author and activist, died last week at the age of 87. His most famous book is “A People’s History of the United States.” Zinn told me last May, “The idea of ‘A People ...