Beacon Press Sponsors People’s Tribute to Howard Zinn Video Contest

Over at Beacon Press, the company is building a fan-driven video tribute to author and scholar Howard Zinn–a crowdsourced book trailer for the late author of You Can’t be Neutral on a Moving Train.

Here’s more about the contest: “Submit a video of yourself reading a chosen selection from his autobiography, You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train, and part of your reading may be included in a video tribute. If we use a portion of your video, we’ll send you a copy of You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train or the new compilation of his plays, Three Plays: The Political Theater of Howard Zinn–Emma, Marx in Soho, Daughter of Venus.”

Visit the site to read excerpts and enter the contest. In 1980, Zinn (pictured, via) published the bestselling book, A People’s History of the United States, a textbook “chronicling American history from the bottom up.” It became an influential text for many students, and is still included on many college reading lists.

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