November 21, 2009
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Can We Handle the Truth?

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Utne Reader September / October 2007
Howard Zinn, A Power Governments Cannot Suppress 
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When our government, our media, and our institutions of higher learning select certain events for remembering and ignore others, we have the responsibility to supply the missing information. Just telling untold truths has a powerful effect, for people with ordinary common sense may then begin asking themselves and others: What shall we do?

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Howard Zinn is a historian and activist, best known for his 1980 book A People's History of the United States; www.howardzinn.org. Excerpted from A Power Governments Cannot Suppress, published in 2006 by City Lights, independent booksellers and publishers of cutting-edge fiction, poetry, memoirs, translations, and books on vital social and political issues; www.citylights.com.

Want more? Read the rest of Utne Reader's September / October package on history:

  • History Lessons
    What we're taught and what's ignored
    by Keith Goetzman
  • Forgetting Hitler
    A growing number of young German Muslims lash out against Holocaust studies
    by Stacy Perman, from Guilt & Pleasure
  • In the Trenches
    A powerful war poem teaches history--and humility
    by Patrick Hicks, from Florida Review
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