Document Type
Commentary
Abstract
[First paragraph]
The news that historian, author, playwright, and activist Howard Zinn died on January 27 of this year hit us hard. Zinn, as much as anyone in our lives, revolutionized how we understand our history, ourselves, and, our roles as educators. “In a world where justice is maldistributed,” he wrote, “there is no such thing as a neutral or representative recapitulation of the facts.” We agree. There is tremendous injustice in the world and as educators we feel a deep responsibility to our students, our community, and ultimately to ourselves, to acknowledge these injustices, to seek explanations for them, and to challenge them.
Repository Citation
Benton, Michael, and Michael Marchman. "So Long Howard Zinn. It’s Been Good to Know Ya." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 10, no. 3, 2010, pp. 1–3. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol10/iss3/4