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  [Howard Zinn raw #51: Zinn continues his remarks on U.S. global involvement and answers questions]

  Communities, Howard Zinn, Latinx

  Howard Zinn speaks at Amherst College on “The Myth of the Cold War” and responds to audience questions.

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  [Howard Zinn raw #50: Zinn speaks on “The Myth of the Cold War”]

  Howard Zinn

  Howard Zinn speaks at Amherst College on “The Myth of the Cold War.”

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  [Howard Zinn raw #31: Marilyn Young examines U.S. foreign policy and its impacts]

  Howard Zinn

  NYU history professor discusses 20th century East Asian history and United States foreign policy in East and Southeast Asia throughout the Cold War. Includes some footage of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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  [Howard Zinn raw #14: Lecture on the omissions and the nature of history]

  Howard Zinn

  Howard Zinn gives a talk at the University of Georgia. He discusses the idea of neutrality and objectivity in history, the omission of the labor struggle from American history, the Civil Rights movement, and his personal experiences as a worker, soldier, and teacher.

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  Test The West! Metamorphosis in East Germany

  International, Politics, Video Makers Choice, War and Peace

  Part of the Global Perspectives on War and Peace Collection. A look at East Germany immediately following the fall of the Berlin Wall.

• Fidel Returns To Harlem

  Uncategorized

  A shaky video recording of Fidel Castro giving a speech at The Abyssinian Baptist Church in the Harlem section of New York City on October 22, 1995. The main focus of Castro’s speech seems to dispel myths, and change opinions about his regime.

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  [The 90’s raw: Museum, Christic Institute, Christopher Simpson]

  Eddie Becker, Politics, THE 90's

  Raw footage for the award-winning series The 90’s.

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  Satellite Summit, part 1

  War and Peace

  Part of the Global Perspectives on War and Peace Collection. Satellite Summit featuring debate on the United States’ proposed Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), which would protect the U.S. from nuclear missile attack (presumably from the Soviet Union). Expert panelists in Washington D.C. debate with panelists in Hamburg, Germany via satellite.