[Howard Zinn, via howardzinn.org]
“Howard Zinn, historian and shipyard worker, civil rights activist and World War II bombardier, and author of “A People’s History of the United States,” a best seller that inspired a generation of high school and college students to rethink American history, died Wednesday in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 87…” Read the full New York Times obituary of this important historian and activist – here