Today, in my humble opinion, we lost one of the finest American minds of our time, Howard Zinn. Mr. Zinn was most well known for his book "People's History of the United States" but he also lived a life of activism and honesty. What made Zinn's book and academic work so special was his perspective. He wrote and spoke about history, politics, and economics from the prospective of the disenfranchised. He looked at the discovery of America through the eyes of the Native Americans, manifest destiny through the eyes of the Mexican indigenous people of the Southwest, the Southern agrarian economies through the eyes of the slaves and the Vietnam war through the eyes of the people fighting for their own independence. In a world where this point of view is often ignored or written off as unimportant Howard Zinn was a voice of all of us. He was a true progressive, not compromising his values to support popular characters. He will be missed.
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