Past Books and Selected Articles

The Sixties Experience: Hard Lessons about Modern America (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991,92). Foreword by Howard Zinn.


Inequality in Classroom Learning:  Schooling and Democratic Citizenship (New York:  Praeger, 1977, 224 pp., two printings).

Selected Articles:


“Two, Three, Many Zinns: Media Culture and the Dilemmas of Democratic Transformation,” chapter in Agitation with a Smile: The Legacy of Howard Zinn and the Future of Activism, Stephen Bird, Adam Silver, and Joseph Yesnowitz, eds., (Paradigm Press, 2013).


“Lost History / Lost Democracy: Media Culture and the 1960s,” chapter in Laura Davis and Carole Barbato, Democratic Narrative, History and Memory (Kent State, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2012), 86-102.


“Media Culture and the Public Memory of the Black Panther Party,” chapter in Jama Lazerow and Yohuru Williams, eds., In Search of the Black Panther Party: New Perspectives on a Revolutionary Movement (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006), 324-73.

“The Good, The Bad, and the Forgotten: Media Culture and Public Memory of the Civil Rights Movement,” chapter in Renee Romano and Leigh Raiford, eds., The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2006), 137-66.

“From Virtual Community to Virtual History: Mass Media and the American Antiwar Movement of the 1960s,” Radical History Review, ‘forum’ article with commentaries and response, 78 Fall, 2000, pp. 85-148.

"Democracy in Eclipse: Media Culture and the Postmodern `Sixties'," New Political Science No. 40 (Summer, 1997), pp. 5-32.


"Who Controls the Past? Propaganda and the Demonised 1960s," Irish Journal of American Studies V 5 (December 1996), pp. 33-57.
 
"America's Post-Vietnam Stress Disorder," Peace Review (UK) 8:2, 1996, pp. 237-43.


"Nixon and the Sixties:  Mass Media and the Sanitized Past," Tikkun V. 9 # 5 (Sept/Oct. 1994), pp. 66-73. 

"Celluloid Heroes: Propaganda and the Gulf War on Film," Film & History XXII, Nos. 1 & 2 (February/May, 1992), pp. 42-40.

"Obstacles to Educational Equity:  State Reform and Local Response in Massachusetts, 1978-83."  Journal of Education Finance, 10 (Spring, 1985), pp. 441-459.


"The Effects of Proposition 2 1/2 in Massachusetts," Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 64, No. 4 (December 1982),, pp. 252-258; reprinted in Marquis' Who's Who, Standard Education Almanac, 16th edition, September, 1983.

"Two Paradigms of Urban Educational Policy:  The Quest for Equality and its Central Dilemma," Polity, Vol. XV, No. 1 (Fall, 1982), pp. 48-71.

"Effective Teaching in the Urban High School," Urban Education (Sage) 14 (Summer, 1979):  pp. 161-181.