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- A People's History of American Empire
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- Half-title page
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- Title page; front matter
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- Synopsis
- Table of contents
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- Paul Buhle
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- Genesis of the book, and its place in Zinn's work
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- A People's History of American Empire
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- Repeat of half-title page
- Script
- Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
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- Mike Konopacki
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- Mike Konopacki
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- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Characters
- Howard Zinn
- Synopsis
- Howard Zinn decsribes his grief over the September 11 attacks, and his despair over the US response of adopting terrorism ourselves, in order to get revenge and to expand American empire.
- Keywords
- advocacy; September 11; terrorism; war; War on Terror; World Trade Center
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- Chapter I, The Internal Empire
- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Characters
- Sioux Indians under attack at Wounded Knee
- Synopsis
- Chapter title page, with large illustration of the massacre at Wounded Knee
- Keywords
- American Indian; atrocity; Lakota; massacre; Native American; Sioux; South Dakota
- Script
- Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
- Pencils
- Mike Konopacki
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- Mike Konopacki
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- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Characters
- Wovoka; Black Elk; Big Foot; Yellow Bird; cavalry
- Synopsis
- Panicked by the Ghost Dance, US Indian agents and cavalry pointlessly kill 250 Sioux men, women, children, and babies.
- Keywords
- American Indian; atrocity; educational; fact; Lakota; massacre; Native American; Sioux; South Dakota; war; west; Wounded Knee
Includes some period photographs
- Script
- Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
- Pencils
- Mike Konopacki
- Inks
- Mike Konopacki
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- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Characters
- Howard Zinn (narrator); JP Morgan; John D Rockefeller; Jay Gould; strikers
- Synopsis
- "Robber baron" capitalists crush resistance to carve out gigantic financial empires.
- Keywords
- capitalism; educational; fact; labor; strike; union
includes period photographs and illustrations
- Script
- Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
- Pencils
- Mike Konopacki
- Inks
- Mike Konopacki
- Letters
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- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Characters
- George Pullman; Mrs Pullman; Eugene V Debs; Pullman workers
- Synopsis
- Pullman cuts workers' pay and increases their costs, even as he makes bigger profits and pays bigger dividends. State, federal, and company officials attack a boycott and strike with violence. Debs is jailed.
- Keywords
- capitalism; educational; fact; labor; robber barons; strike; union
Some period photographs
- Script
- Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
- Pencils
- Mike Konopacki
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- Mike Konopacki
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- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Characters
- William McKinley; Theodore Roosevelt; Alfred Thayer Mahan; Henry Cabot Lodge; Robert Wilcox
- Synopsis
- Under color of free trade and the Monroe Doctrine, the US invades, attacks, or acquires numerous nations.
- Keywords
- capitalism; educational; fact; Hawaii; imperialism; President; Spanish-American War; war
Some period photographs and illustrations
- Pencils
- William Dinwiddie (photograph)
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- William Dinwiddie (photograph)
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- "Chapter II, The Spanish-American War
- Characters
- Theodore Roosevelt; Rough Riders
- Synopsis
- Chapter title page, with large photo of Roosevelt and some of his troopers in Cuba
- Keywords
- army; Cuba; President; Spanish-American War; war
- Script
- Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
- Pencils
- Mike Konopacki
- Inks
- Mike Konopacki
- Letters
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- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Characters
- Carlos Manuel de Cespedes; Antonio Maceo Grajales; Maximo Gomez; Liberto; Tomas; Jose Marti; Salvador Cisneros Betancourt
- Synopsis
- Carlos Manuel de Cespedes frees his slaves and launches the unsuccessful Ten Years War for Cuban independence. Antonio Maceo Grajales (the Bronze Titan) and others resume the struggle in 1895. Despite their successes, the rebels (both black and white) fear that they need US support, but also fear a US takeover. To the despair of the rebels, leaders Maceo and Marti are killed in separate battles.
- Keywords
- Cuba; Cuban War of Independence; slavery; Ten Years War; war
- Script
- Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
- Pencils
- Mike Konopacki
- Inks
- Mike Konopacki
- Letters
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- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Characters
- William McKinley; Richard Harding Davis; William Randolph Hearst; Clemencia Arango; the Yellow Kid (cameo); Uncle Sam (cameo); Frederick Remington (cameo); Richard Harding Davis (cameo)
- Synopsis
- Business, press, and political leaders in the US look for an excuse to intervene in Cuba. Newspapers publish lurid stories and headlines, often untrue, to arouse American passions. Without evidence, many blame the explosion aboard USS Maine on the Spanish. Labor leaders express support for the rebels, but oppose US expansionism.
- Keywords
- Cuba; Cuban War of Independence; President; Spanish-American War; war; yellow journalism
Includes period photos, illustrations, cartoons, newspaper pages
- Script
- Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
- Pencils
- Mike Konopacki
- Inks
- Mike Konopacki
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- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Characters
- Theodore Roosevelt; Sgt Frank W Pullen; soldiers of the 25th Infantry; Cuban rebels; Spanish soldiers
- Synopsis
- The 2nd Massachusetts (white) and 25th Infantry (black) are detailed to attack El Caney in concert with the Rough Riders (white) and 10th Infantry (black) attacking San Juan Hill. The Second Massachusetts retreats and the 25th's white officers stand off, but the black enlisted men spontaneously attack and capture the fort, upon which a white officer confiscates the captured Spanish flag. Over on San Juan Hill, photographers exclude the black troops from the victory pictures.
- Keywords
- African American; army; Buffalo Soldiers; Cuba; Cuban War of Independence; President; San Juan Hill; Spanish-American War; war
Artwork includes a few period photos.
- Script
- Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
- Pencils
- Mike Konopacki
- Inks
- Mike Konopacki
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- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Characters
- Tomas; Liberto; Maximo Gomez; US troops
- Synopsis
- American and insurgent troops defeat the Spanish in Cuba, where more soldiers die of tainted beef supplied by Armour than are killed in battle. Rather than promoting Cuban independence, the US establishes a protectorate. Gomez dissolves the insurgent army.
- Keywords
- army; Cuba; Cuban War of Independence; imperialism; Spanish-American War; war
Includes some period photographs
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- Chapter III, The Invasion of the Philippines
- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Characters
- US soldiers
- Synopsis
- Chapter title page, with large photo of US soldiers posing with a few dozen of the Filipinos they massacred at Bud Dajo
- Keywords
- army; atrocity; imperialism; massacre; Philippine Insurrection; Philippines; war
- Script
- Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
- Pencils
- Mike Konopacki
- Inks
- Mike Konopacki
- Letters
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- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Characters
- William McKinley; Emilio Aguinaldo; Commodore George Dewey; William Grayson; General Arthur MacArthur; Mark Twain; Uncle Sam (cameo); Howard Zinn (narrator)
- Synopsis
- Affecting to sympathize with the Philippine rebels against Spain, the US cuts a deal in the peace treaty to acquire the country itself. The US makes war on the supporters of independence, even using black regiments... many men of which are angry at fighting non-white people far away whilst non-white people are being lynched at home. US troops use the "water cure" torture to interrogate prisoners. Henry Turner, W.E.B. DuBois, and Mark Twain all oppose the war and its conduct. Leonard Wood, Elihu Root, and Theodore Roosevelt are enthusiastic supporters.
- Keywords
- army; imperialism; navy; Philippine Insurrection; Philippines; President; Spanish-American War; war
Dewey is referred to throughout as admiral, but that rank actually postdates the Battle of Manila Bay. His actual rank at the time was commodore. Includes some period photographs and illustrations.
- Script
- Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
- Pencils
- Mike Konopacki
- Inks
- Mike Konopacki
- Letters
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- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Characters
- US soldiers; Moro fighters; Mark Twain
- Synopsis
- Ordered to kill or capture Moro holdouts in an extinct volcano, US troops kill all 900 men, women, and children.
- Keywords
- army; atrocity; massacre; Moro; Philippine Insurrection; Philippines
- Pencils
- Art Young
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- Art Young
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- Chapter IV, War is the Health of the State
- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Characters
- profiteer
- Synopsis
- Chapter title page, with large illustration of period editorial cartoon
- Keywords
- profiteer; profiteering; war
- Script
- Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
- Pencils
- Mike Konopacki
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- Mike Konopacki
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- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Characters
- Admiral George Dewey; Woodrow Wilson; Howard Zinn (narrator)
- Synopsis
- US leaders recognize that foreign wars can quell trouble at home, if managed with compulsion, propaganda, and suppression of dissent. The wealthy in the US invest heavily overseas. Wilson uses the army and navy to protect their investments, even against the overseas countries themselves.
- Keywords
- army; capitalism; imperialism; Mexican Revolution; Mexico; navy; President
- Script
- Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn; Woody Guthrie
- Pencils
- Mike Konopacki
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- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Characters
- Howard Zinn (narrator); Woody Guthrie (singer/narrator); striking mine families; Colorado National Guardsmen; Governor Elias Ammons
- Synopsis
- National Guardsmen attack a tent city of striking miners and their families (Ludlow, Colorado, 1914), killing men, women, and children. At the same time American warships attack Vera Cruz, killing a hundred Mexicans.
- Keywords
- atrocity; capitalism; Colorado; labor; Ludlow; Ludlow Massacre; mining; strike; union
A large part of the text is from the lyrics to Woody Guthrie's song on the Ludlow Massacre
- Script
- Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
- Pencils
- Mike Konopacki
- Inks
- Mike Konopacki
- Letters
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- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Characters
- Eugene V Debs; WEB Du Bois; Woodrow Wilson; Paul von Hindenburg; Mark Sykes; Francois Georges Picot; Howard Zinn (narrator)
- Synopsis
- US business and political leaders decide that "American capitalism needed international rivalry -- and periodic war -- to create an artificial community of interest between rich and poor." Debs and Du Bois object. Wilson evades his own neutrality policies to creep closer to the Allies, and to a declaration of war. The British and French make secret agreements to divide the Middle East, betraying the Arabs among whom they are fomenting revolt.
- Keywords
- capitalism; imperialism; Lusitania; President; socialism; submarine; war; World War I
Includes period photos, cartoons, illustrations
- Script
- Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
- Pencils
- Mike Konopacki
- Inks
- Mike Konopacki
- Letters
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- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Characters
- Emma Goldman; Eugene V Debs; Woodrow Wilson; members of the Industrial Workers of the World; Sheldon W Smith; Mennonites; Molokans; Dukhobors; Kate Richards O'Hare; Alice Paul; Howard Zinn (narrator)
- Synopsis
- Numerous Americans oppose the war from many points of view -- class, religion, gender -- but government and society crush opposition with severity and with unconstitutional measures.
- Keywords
- army; conscientious objector; draft; Great War; Mennonite; pacifist; President; war; World War I
Includes period photos
- Pencils
- Mike Konopacki
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- Mike Konopacki
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- Chapter V, Growing Up Class-Conscious
- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Characters
- New York city neighborhood dwellers
- Synopsis
- Chapter title page, with large illustration of 1920s street scene in the tenement district
- Keywords
- New York City; tenement
- Script
- Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
- Pencils
- Mike Konopacki
- Inks
- Mike Konopacki
- Letters
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- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Characters
- Eddie Zinn; Jenny Zinn; Howard Zinn
- Synopsis
- The Zinn family in Brooklyn endures poverty and the Great Depression with the help of neighborhood saviors, such as the doctor who cured Howard's rickets without charging. Even so, Howard's elder brother, though still a young boy, dies while on a cheap vacation in the country. The family hears news that Sacco and Vanzetti have been executed.
- Keywords
- Brooklyn; Great Depression; immigrants; poverty; radio; Sacco and Vanzetti
- Script
- Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
- Pencils
- Mike Konopacki
- Inks
- Mike Konopacki
- Letters
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- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Characters
- Nicola Sacco; Bartolomeo Vanzetti
- Synopsis
- Sacco and Vanzetti are arrested for murders committed during a payroll robbery, and railroaded through a highly suspect investigation and trial. Their trial and execution shocks residents of the Zinns' Brooklyn neighborhood, who recognize the affair as suppression of immigrant dissent.
- Keywords
- Brooklyn; court; crime; death penalty; electric chair; execution; Massachusetts; murder; police
Includes period photographs and cartoon
- Script
- Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
- Pencils
- Mike Konopacki
- Inks
- Mike Konopacki
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- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Characters
- Howard Zinn; Eddie Zinn; Jenny Zinn; Leon; Communist demonstrators; New York City Police
- Synopsis
- Young Howard discovers a damaged Tarzan novel on the street, igniting a passion for books. Dickens stirs up "an anger at arbitrary power puffed up with wealth and kept in place by law." As politicians proclaim that anyone who works hard in America can do well, he recognizes that his father, a waiter, works harder than any politician, but will never thrive. When Zinn joins a Communist demonstration police club him unconscious. Losing faith in the liberal hope that democracy is self-correcting, he becomes "a radical, believing that something was fundamentally wrong with this country."
- Keywords
- Class struggle; Communism; demonstration; police; police brutality; radicalism
- Pencils
- Mike Konopacki
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- Mike Konopacki
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- Chapter VI, World War II: A People's War?
- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Characters
- Uncle Sam; Capitalism
- Synopsis
- Chapter title page, with large illustration of Uncle Sam and Capitalism (or Plutocracy?) together making up the globe.
- Keywords
- capitalism; imperialism; plutocracy
- Script
- Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
- Pencils
- Mike Konopacki
- Inks
- Mike Konopacki
- Letters
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- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Characters
- Howard Zinn; Roslyn Schecter Zinn; Franklin D Roosevelt; Dr Charles Drew; tail gunner; Uncle Sam; John Bull (cameo)
- Synopsis
- Zinn works at Brooklyn Navy Yard building battleships; marries; and joins the Army Air Forces. The military promotes segregation, while the government favors corporate interests even in the midst of war. Strikes increase. Fewer men resist the draft than in World War I, but three times as many are sent to prison. An Air Forces friend tells Zinn that the US, UK, and USSR are all in the war to build their own empires -- not for moral concern about Hitlerism.
- Keywords
- air corps; air force; air forces; army; B-17; battleship; capitalism; educational; fact; Flying Fortress; imperialism; labor union; President; profiteering; war; World War II
includes period photos
- Script
- Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
- Pencils
- Mike Konopacki
- Inks
- Mike Konopacki
- Letters
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- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Characters
- Howard Zinn; Air Forces officers
- Synopsis
- Zinn flies as bombardier on one of the first experimental missions using what will become known as napalm. The attack agonizingly kills enemy German soldiers and friendly French civilians alike. He recognizes that even in World War II, America's hands were not clean. Packing up his decorations, paperwork, and memorabilia, he writes "Never Again" on the envelope.
- Keywords
- air corps; air force; air forces; army; atrocity; B-17; educational; fact; Flying Fortress; napalm
Includes period photos
- Script
- Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
- Pencils
- Mike Konopacki
- Inks
- Mike Konopacki
- Letters
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- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Characters
- Howard Zinn; Harry Truman; Joseph Stalin; residents of Hiroshima
- Synopsis
- Truman orders two atomic bombs dropped on Japan to force their surrender. Many suspect that the attacks were also meant to warn off the Soviet Union. Truman demands loyalty oaths from government employees, and the US helps antidemocratic forces, if they are anticommunist, to crush democratic movements. The Cold War is under way.
- Keywords
- atomic bomb; Cold War; educational; fact; Hiroshima; Japan; Nagasaki; nuclear bomb; President; war; World War II
Includes period photos
- Pencils
- Mike Konopacki
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- Mike Konopacki
- Letters
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- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Synopsis
- Chapter title page, with large illustration
- Keywords
- dance
- Script
- Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
- Pencils
- Mike Konopacki
- Inks
- Mike Konopacki
- Letters
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- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Characters
- Dizzy Gillespie; Count Basie; "Big Jay" McNeely; zoot suiters; police
- Synopsis
- During and after World War II, many African Americans and Mexican Americans pursue jazz and swing, dance the jitterbug, and wear zoot suits. The zoot suits become a symbol of protest against discrimination in the military, in war work, and in society. Servicemen and police attack zoot suiters, but the dance goes on.
- Keywords
- dance; educational; fact; jazz; police; protest; swing; World War II; zoot suit
Includes period photos
- Script
- Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
- Pencils
- Mike Konopacki
- Inks
- Mike Konopacki
- Letters
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- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Characters
- Big Jay; Johnny Otis; John Dolphin; teenage fans; police; William Gaines (cameo)
- Synopsis
- White, black, and Hispanic teens stream to John Dolphin's music store in South Central Los Angeles, and tune in to his radio broadcasts. Both store and broadcasts overwhelmingly carry work by black artists. Police and civic leaders try to stop the flow of dancers and customers, but both keep on coming.
- Keywords
- African American; California; dance; educational; fact; Hollywood; police; R & B; R&B; rhythm and blues
Includes period photos; includes Congressional hearing on juvenile delinquency and comic books
- Pencils
- Mike Konopacki ?
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- Mike Konopacki ?
- Letters
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- Chapter VIII, Children of the Empire
- Synopsis
- Chapter title page, with large illustration of a march on Washington
- Keywords
- demonstration; protest; Washington DC
- Script
- Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
- Pencils
- Mike Konopacki
- Inks
- Mike Konopacki
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Characters
- Dr Irene Jackson; Whitney Young; Howard Zinn; Spelman College students; white public librarian
- Synopsis
- As a young teacher at Spelman College, Zinn helps organize a campaign to integrate the Atlanta public library system. It is eventually successful, but Zinn is fired.
- Keywords
- Atlanta; civil rights; desegregation; educational; fact; Georgia; integration; library
- Script
- Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
- Pencils
- Mike Konopacki
- Inks
- Mike Konopacki
- Letters
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- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Characters
- Bob Moses; Herbert Lee; EH Hurst; John Dillinger Shaw; Freedom Riders
- Synopsis
- Fighters for civil rights use sit-ins and Freedom Rides to advance their cause, and try to register African American voters. They are met with violence, incarceration, and murder.
- Keywords
- African American; Alabama; Birmingham; civil rights; desegregation; educational; fact; Freedom Rider; Greensboro; integration; Mississippi; North Carolina; Vietnam
- Script
- Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
- Pencils
- Mike Konopacki
- Inks
- Mike Konopacki
- Letters
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- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Characters
- Lyndon B Johnson; Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr; Bob Moses; Phil Ochs
- Synopsis
- Despite passage of the Voting Rights Act, resentment over disproportional poverty, and disproportional deaths in Vietnam, provoke both protests and violence.
- Keywords
- civil rights; educational; fact; President; protest; Vietnam; Washington DC
- Script
- Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
- Pencils
- Mike Konopacki
- Inks
- Mike Konopacki
- Letters
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- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Characters
- Ngo Dinh Diem; Mme Nhu; Lyndon B Johnson; Nguyen Cao Ky; Nguyen Van Thieu; Buddhist protestors
- Synopsis
- The US sets up a semi-puppet government in South Vietnam. Many within that country... most notably from the majority Buddhist population... oppose the government. Northern and Southern Communist forces take up arms against the government. Johnson manipulates events and facts to gain broader US support for fighting in Vietnam.
- Keywords
- Buddhism; educational; fact; President; Vietnam
- Script
- Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
- Pencils
- Mike Konopacki
- Inks
- Mike Konopacki
- Letters
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- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Characters
- US soldiers; Viet Cong soldier
- Synopsis
- Non-white US troops resist fighting non-white Viet Cong, especially when South Vietnamese regular forces avoid battle.
- Keywords
- African American; army; educational; fact; Vietnam
- Script
- Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
- Pencils
- Mike Konopacki
- Inks
- Mike Konopacki
- Letters
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- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Characters
- Hugh Thompson; Herb Carter; Gary Payton; US soldiers; villagers of My Lai
- Synopsis
- US soldiers massacre some 500 people, down to and including infants, at My Lai. Hugh Thompson and his helicopter crew save as many as they can. Ordinary soldiers attack their officers and organize riots.
army; atrocity; educational; fact; massacre; Vietnam
- Script
- Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
- Pencils
- Mike Konopacki
- Inks
- Mike Konopacki
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Characters
- Howard Zinn; Dan Berrigan; North Vietnamese
- Synopsis
- Zinn and Berrigan travel to North Vietnam to secure release of several POWS.
- Keywords
- POW; prisoner of war; Vietnam
- Pencils
- Mike Konopacki
- Inks
- Mike Konopacki
- Letters
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- Chapter IX, Land of Burning Children
- Synopsis
- Chapter title page, with large illustration of self-immolation at the cathedral in Syracuse, NY
- Script
- Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
- Pencils
- Mike Konopacki
- Inks
- Mike Konopacki
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Characters
- Martin Luther King; John F Kennedy; H Rap Brown; Howard Zinn
- Synopsis
- Kennedy tries to co-opt African Americans into his coalition, with only limited success. Despite legal changes, many conditions remain horrendous for African Americans, and Martin Luther King is assassinated.
- Keywords
- African American; assassination; civil rights; educational; fact
Numerous period photos
- Script
- Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
- Pencils
- Mike Konopacki
- Inks
- Mike Konopacki
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Characters
- Dan Berrigan; Phil Berrigan; FBI agents; Bread and Puppet Theater performers; victims of Kent State Massacre; victims of Jackson State Massacre; Vietnam Veterans Against the War
- Synopsis
- The Catonsville 9 burns draft records in protest of the war in Vietnam, and the Berrigan brothers go under cover before finally being arrested and jailed. Authorities kill students at Kent State and Jackson State. Howard Zinn joins a Vietnam Veterans Against the War protest march; police blind him with Mace and tear gas.
- Keywords
- African American; Cornell University; educational; fact; Ithaca; Jackson State; Kent State; Mississippi; New York state; Ohio; puppet; Vietnam; war; Washington DC
- Script
- Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
- Pencils
- Mike Konopacki
- Inks
- Mike Konopacki
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Characters
- Oglala Sioux; US agents
- Synopsis
- Angered at what they consider illegitimate and coercive tribal government backed by the US government, Oglala Sioux and others seize part of the Pine Ridge reservation at Wounded Knee. Federal agents oppose them with force, and at least one man is killed. A negotiated peace brings a peaceful ending, but the US government does not follow through on the agreements negotiated.
- Keywords
- American Indian; American Indian Movement; educational; fact; Native American; Oglala; Pine Ridge; Sioux; South Dakota; Wounded Knee
- Pencils
- Mike Konopacki
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- Mike Konopacki
- Letters
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- Chapter X, The Same Rotting Barrel
- Characters
- Richard Nixon; Gerald Ford; Jimmy Carter; Ronald Reagan; George HW Bush; Bill Clinton; George W Bush
- Synopsis
- Chapter title page with large illustration of Presidents in a corporate-sponsored barrel
- Keywords
- capitalism; corporation; corruption; President
- Script
- Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
- Pencils
- Mike Konopacki
- Inks
- Mike Konopacki
- Letters
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- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Characters
- Daniel Ellsberg; Tony Russo; Neil Sheehan; Howard Zinn; Richard Nixon
- Synopsis
- Daniel Ellsberg smuggles copies of the "Pentagon Papers" from his office at the Rand Corporation, and copies them along with Tony Russo. After the New York Times begins publishing the documents Ellsberg and Russo are arrested for espionage. The judge dismisses charges because of illegal actions against Ellsberg by the Nixon administration.
- Keywords
- educational; fact; Pentagon; President; Vietnam; Washington DC
- Script
- Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
- Pencils
- Mike Konopacki
- Inks
- Mike Konopacki
- Letters
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- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Characters
- Howard Zinn (narrator); Gerald Ford; Henry Kissinger; Jimmy Carter
- Synopsis
- The Watergate scandal forces Nixon's resignation from the Presidency, but investigations avoid the systemic problems. Nixon successors Ford, Carter, and Reagan pursue similar pro-corporate, pro-military, imperialist practices and policies.
- Keywords
- Bicentennial; Cambodia; educational; fact; imperialism; President; Vietnam
- Pencils
- Mike Konopacki
- Inks
- Mike Konopacki
- Letters
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- Chapter XI, Resurgence of Empire
- Characters
- Nicaraguan demonstrators
- Synopsis
- Chapter title page, with large illustration and quote from Father Ernesto Cardenal
- Keywords
- Nicaragua
- Script
- Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
- Pencils
- Mike Konopacki
- Inks
- Mike Konopacki
- Letters
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- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Characters
- Anastasio Somoza; Augusto Sandino; Gregorio Sandino
- Synopsis
- Until he is assassinated, Sandino fights against oppressive employers, corrupt Nicaraguan government, and US military occupation.
- Keywords
- Assassination; educational; fact; Mexico; Nicaragua
- Script
- Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
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- Mike Konopacki
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- Mike Konopacki
- Letters
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- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Characters
- Ronald Reagan; William Casey; Raymond Bonner; rebels of the Atlacatl Battalion; villages of El Mozote
- Synopsis
- Reagan drops the human rights pretext of US foreign policy, backing right-wing violence in Nicaragua and El Salvador. US-trained troops massacre the men, women, and children of the Salvadoran village El Mozote.
- Keywords
- atrocity; educational; El Salvador; fact; massacre; Nicaragua; President
- Script
- Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
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- Mike Konopacki
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- Mike Konopacki
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- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Characters
- Ronald Reagan; William Casey; Gary Hart; William Cohen
- Synopsis
- Under Reagan's lead, the CIA aids Contra violence and cuts of trade with Nicaragua. Congress refuses further support for the Contras.
- Keywords
- CIA; educational; fact; Nicaragua; President
- Script
- Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
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- Mike Konopacki
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- Mike Konopacki
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- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Characters
- Ronald Reagan; George HW Bush; John Poindexter; Bill Breeden
- Synopsis
- Reagan breaks the law by secretly continuing funding of the Contras, and by selling arms to Iran. Drug trafficking becomes part of the package of working with the Contras. President George HW Bush pardons Reagan officials tied to crimes under Reagan. Odon, Indiana names a street after native son Admiral Poindexter. Bill Breeden steals the sign in protest. He is the only person to do jail time over the Iran-Contra scandal.
- Keywords
- CIA; educational; fact; Indiana; Iran; Nicaragua; President
One page -- Howard Zinn's Believe It Or Don't! -- done in the style of Ripley's Believe It Or Not.
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- Mike Konopacki
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- Mike Konopacki
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- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Chapter XII, Covert Action and Reaction
- Characters
- Iranian protestors
- Synopsis
- Chapter title page, with large illustration taken from period photograph.
- Keywords
- flag; flag burning
- Script
- Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
- Pencils
- Mike Konopacki
- Inks
- Mike Konopacki
- Letters
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- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Characters
- Mohammad Mossadegh; Clement Atlee; Harry Truman; Kermit Roosevelt (the younger); Dwight D Eisenhower; John Foster Dulles; Howard Zinn (narrator)
- Synopsis
- Zinn gives background for the 1979 seizure of the US embassy in Iran -- the Anglo-American plot to overthrow Iran's democratic government in 1953.
- Keywords
- CIA; educational; fact; Iran; president; Tehran
- Script
- Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
- Pencils
- Mike Konopacki
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- Mike Konopacki
- Letters
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- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Characters
- Donald Wilber; Kermit Roosevelt (the younger); General H Norman Schwartzkopf (the elder); Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi; General Fazlollah Zahedi; Colonel Nematollah Nasiri
- Synopsis
- Wilber and Roosevelt mastermind the plot against Mossadegh, buying off politicians and police, getting the Shah's support, and selecting a retired general as front man. When violence breaks out and Washington orders them to cancel the plan they persist anyway, overthrowing the fledgling democracy.
- Keywords
- CIA; educational; fact; Iran; Tehran
- Script
- Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
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- Mike Konopacki
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- Mike Konopacki
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- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Characters
- Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi; Ayatollah Rohollah Khomeini; Jiummy Carter
- Synopsis
- For 26 years the Shah rules brutally, supported by the CIA and by Israeli intelligence. Western corporations do very well, but many Iranians, including the Shi'ite clergy, are enraged. The Shah forces Ayatollah Khomeini from the country, but his ongoing condemnation contributes to uprisings that drive the Shah into exile. Khomeini returns, proclaiming an Islamic republic. When President Carter allows the Shah into the US for cancer treatment, many Iranians fear that it heralds a US attempt to restore the monarchy. Protestors seize the US embassy and 52 hostages.
- Keywords
- educational; fact; Iran; Islam; president; Shi'ite
- Script
- Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
- Pencils
- Mike Konopacki
- Inks
- Mike Konopacki
- Letters
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- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Characters
- Jimmy Carter; Zbigniew Brzezinski; Donald Rumsfeld; Osama bin Laden; George H W Bush; Madeleine Albright; George W Bush
- Synopsis
- Carter and Reagan support Mujahedeen, including Osama bin Laden, against the Soviets in Afghanistan. Donald Rumsfeld assures Saddam Hussein that Reagan does not object to Iraq using chemical weapons against Iran. G H W Bush leads a war to drive Iraq out of Kuwait. Perhaps half a million Iraqi children die under UN sanctions. G W Bush governs with torture and aggressive war.
- Keywords
- Afghanistan; Desert Storm; educational; fact; Iraq; Kuwait; president
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- Mike Konopacki
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- Mike Konopacki
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- Epilogue
- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Characters
- Martin Luther King; Civil Rights demonstrators; Vietnam Veterans Against the War
- Synopsis
- Chapter title page, with large illustration
- Script
- Dave Wagner; Howard Zinn
- Pencils
- Mike Konopacki
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- Mike Konopacki
- Letters
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- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Thank you, thank you.
- Genre
- non-fiction; history
- Characters
- Howard Zinn
- Synopsis
- Zinn urges his audience to fight empire and "live now as we think human beings should live."
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- Synopsis
- Bibliography by chapters
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- Credits for photos, documents, and illustrations used in the book
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- Acknowledgments to those who have contributed to the work, or its success
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- Synopsis
- Index
- Letters
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- Creator credits. Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States; Mike Konopacki, art & contributions to script; Paul Buhle, editor; Dave Wagner, researcher & scriptwriter; Kathy Wilkes, script doctor & editor
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- Letters
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- Synopsis
- Explanation of the American Empire Project; list of publications