The Politics of History

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Howard Boone's Zinn. The Politics of History

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THE LESS THAN IMMACULATE CONCEPTION

THE PROBLEM OF HISTORICAL SELECTION

CLASS TODAY

HIROSHIMA

ROYAN

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The Politics of History

SECOND EDITION With a New Introduction

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THE ZINN READER: WRITINGS ON DISOBEDIENCE AND DEMOCRACY (Seven Stories Press 1997, second edition 2010)

I am not sure what a revolution among scholars will look like, any more than I know what a revolution in the society will look like. I doubt that it will take the form of some great cataclysmic event. More likely, it will be a process, with periods of tumult and of quiet, in which we will, here and there, by ones and twos and tens, create pockets of concern inside old institutions, transforming them from within. There is no great day of reckoning to work toward. Rather, we must begin now to liberate those patches of ground on which we stand—in our classrooms, in our studies, in our writing—to “vote” for a new world (as Thoreau suggested) with our whole selves all the time, rather than in moments carefully selected by others.

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