What the Classroom Didn't Teach Me About the American Empire

Howard Zinn

Empire or Humanity? by Howard ZinnNarratted by Viggo Mortensen Click here see an autobiographical section of the new book A People’s History of American Empire by Howard Zinn, focusing on his early years. (Click on each illustration to view a single page of text.) With an occupying army waging war in Iraq and Afghanistan, with military bases and corporate bullying in every part of the world, there is hardly a question any more of the existence of an American Empire. Indeed, the once fervent denials have turned into a boastful, unashamed embrace of the idea. However the very idea that the United States was an empire did not occur to me until after I finished my work as a bombardier with the Eighth Air Force in the Second World War, and came home. Even as I began to have second thoughts about the purity of the "Good War," even after […]