Can We Handle the Truth? America's selective memory and massacres long since forgotten


	Can We Handle the Truth? America's selective memory and massacres long since forgotten

Unusual Suspect

9-13-2007 10:32 AM

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american history, massacres

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Talk given by Howard Zinn, historian.

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9-16-2007 1:26 PM

neochonetes

Thanks for the clip. I found this related information:
http://howardzinn.org

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