Howard Zinn (born August 24, 1922) is an American historian, political scientist, social critic, activist and playwright, best known as author of the bestseller[5] , A People's History of the United States. Image File history File links Zinn. ... is the 236th day of the year (237th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The meaning of the word professor (Latin: [1]) varies. ... This article is about the occupation of studying history. ... A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or drama. ... is the 236th day of the year (237th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the occupation of studying history. ... The Politics series Politics Portal This box:      Political Science is the field concerning the theory and practice of politics and the description and analysis of political systems and political behaviour. ... Social criticism analyzes (problematic) social structures and aims at practical solutions by specific measures, radical reform or even revolutionary change. ... A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or drama. ... A bestseller is a book that is identified as extremely popular by its inclusion on lists of currently top selling titles that are based on publishing industry and booktrade figures and published by newspapers, magazines, or bookstore chains. ... A Peoples History of the United States, 2003 hardcover edition A Peoples History of the United States is a nonfiction book by American historian and political scientist Howard Zinn, in which he seeks to present American history through the eyes of groups he says are rarely heard in...

Zinn's philosophy incorporates ideas from Marxism, anarchism, socialism, and social democracy. Since the 1960s, he has been active in the Civil Rights and anti-war movements in the United States. Zinn has long advocated the overthrow of America's constitutional republic and its replacement with a socialist system. While vague on the details of this future America, the final chapters of his book A People's History of the United States include certain suggestions such as banning private property, the drafting of the young and the elderly into slave-labor gangs, and the replacement of corporations with workers' councils. These prescriptions are remarkably similar to orthodox Stalinism. Marxism is both the theory and the political practice (that is, the praxis) derived from the work of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. ... Anarchist redirects here. ... Socialism is a broad array of ideologies and political movements with the goal of a socio-economic system in which property and the distribution of wealth are subject to control by the community for the purposes of increasing social and economic equality and cooperation. ... Social democracy is a political ideology emerging in the late 19th and early 20th centuries from supporters of Marxism who believed that the transition to a socialist society could be achieved through democratic evolutionary rather than revolutionary means. ... The civil rights movement in the United States has been a long, primarily nonviolent struggle to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to all citizens of United States. ... A peace movement is a social movement that seeks to achieve ideals such as the ending of a particular war (or all wars), minimize inter-human violence in a particular place or type of situation, often linked to the goal of achieving world peace. ... A Peoples History of the United States, 2003 hardcover edition A Peoples History of the United States is a nonfiction book by American historian and political scientist Howard Zinn, in which he seeks to present American history through the eyes of groups he says are rarely heard in...

The author of some 20 books, Zinn is currently Professor Emeritus in the Political Science Department at Boston University. He lives in the extremely wealthy Auburndale neighborhood in the the upper-class suburb of Newton, Massachusetts with his wife, the artist Roslyn Zinn.[6] [7] The couple have two children, Myla and Jeff, and five grandchildren. Both artist and editor, Roslyn has had a role in editing all of Zinn's books and many of his articles. They are both avid Red Sox fans.[8] Zinn's rarified upper-class WASP lifestyle stands in stark contrast to his stated political positions. For the similarly named institution in Chestnut Hill, see Boston College. ... Auburndale is one of the 13 villages of Newton, Massachusetts. ... Nickname: Location in Middlesex County in Massachusetts Coordinates: , Country State County Middlesex County Settled 1630 Incorporated 1688 Government  - Type Mayor-council city  - Mayor David B. Cohen (Dem) Area  - City  18. ... The Boston Red Sox are a Major League Baseball team located in Boston, Massachusetts. ...

Education and career

Education

• B.A., New York University, 1951.
• M.A. and Ph.D., Columbia University, 1952, 1958.
• Post-doctoral Fellow in East Asian Studies at Harvard University, 1960-61.

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• Professor of History, Spelman College, Atlanta, Ga. 1956-1963.
• Professor of Political Science, Boston University, 1964-1988.
• Visiting Professor and Rhodes Scholar at both the University of Paris and University of Bologna

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Civil Rights movement

In 1956, Zinn was appointed chairman of the department of history and social sciences at Spelman College, where he participated in the Civil Rights movement. For example, Zinn lobbied with historian August Meier [9] "to end the practice of the Southern Historical Association of holding meetings at segregated hotels.^[1] Spelman College is a four-year liberal arts womans college in Atlanta, Georgia. ... The civil rights movement in the United States has been a long, primarily nonviolent struggle to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to all citizens of United States. ...

At Spelman, Zinn served as an adviser to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and, in 1964, later wrote the book SNCC: The New Abolitionisists. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (or SNCC, pronounced snick) was one of the principal organizations of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. ...

At Spelman, Zinn collaborated with historian Staughton Lynd and mentored young student activists, among them writer Alice Walker and Marian Wright Edelman now president of the Children’s Defense Fund. In a journal article, Edelman discusses Zinn as major influence in her life and she tells of his accompanying students to a sit-in at the segregated white section of the Georgia state legislature.^[2] Staughton Lynd (b. ... Alice Malsenior Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American author and feminist. ... Marian Wright Edelman (born June 6, 1939) is the president and founder of the Childrens Defense Fund. ...

Although Zinn was a tenured professor, he was dismissed, in June 1963, after siding with students in their desire to challenge Spelman's traditional emphasis of turning out "young ladies" when, as Zinn described in an article in The Nation, Spelman students were likely to be found on the picket line, or in jail for participating in the greater effort to break down segregation in public places in Atlanta. Zinn's years at Spelman are recounted in his autobiography You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times. His seven years at Spelman College, Zinn said, "are probably the most interesting, exciting, most educational years for me. I learned more from my students than my students learned from me." [10] The Nation logo The Nation is a weekly left-liberal periodical devoted to politics and culture. ...

While at Spelman, Zinn wrote that he observed 30 violations of the First and Fourteenth amendments to the United States Constitution in Albany, Georgia, including the rights to freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and equal protection of the laws. In an article on the civil rights movement in Albany, Zinn describes the people who participated in the Freedom Rides to end segregation, and of the reluctance of President John F. Kennedy to enforce the law.[11] Zinn has also pointed out that the Justice Department under Robert F. Kennedy and the Federal Bureau of Investigation headed by J. Edgar Hoover, did little to nothing to stop the segregationists from brutalizing civil rights workers.[12] Wikisource has original text related to this article: The United States Constitution The United States Constitution is the supreme law of the United States of America. ... Nickname: Location in Dougherty County and the state of Georgia Coordinates: , Country State County Dougherty Government  - Mayor Willie Adams, Jr. ... This article is about the general concept. ... Group of women holding placards with political activist slogans: know your courts - study your politicians, Liberty in law, Law makers must not be law breakers, and character in candidates photo 1920 Freedom of assembly is the freedom to associate with, or organize any groups, gatherings, clubs, or organizations that one... The Equal Protection Clause is a part of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, providing that no state shall make or enforce any law which shall. ... The Freedom Rides were a series of nonviolent, direct demonstrations performed in 1961 as part of the U.S. civil rights movement. ... John Kennedy and JFK redirect here. ... Robert Francis Bobby Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968), also called RFK, was one of two younger brothers of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and served as United States Attorney General from 1961 to 1964. ... John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States. ...

Zinn wrote frequently about the struggle for civil rights, both as a participant and historian [13] and in 1960-61, he took a year off from teaching to write SNCC: The New Abolitionists and The Southern Mystique. [14] In his book on SNCC, Zinn describes how the sit-ins against segregation were initiated by students and, in that sense, independent of the older, more established civil rights organizations.

Despite his activities in the civil rights movement, Zinn has consistently downplayed the role of this movement in his writings and has celebrated black supremacists such as Malcolm X, a supporter of segregation, as the true voice of black America. In A People's History he excoriates SNCC and Martin Luthor King, Jr. as sellouts and traitors, and denounces the 1963 March on Washington, quoting heavily from Malcolm X's racist writings. Judging by these writings, it would appear that Zinn is not an anti-racist, but rather is interested in exploiting black grievances in order to aggrandize himself and his own radical goals.

He returned to Spelman in 2005 to give the commencement address.[15] His talk, titled "Against Discouragement" is online.

Anti-war efforts

Fresh from writing two books about his research, observations about and participation in the Civil Rights movement in the South, Zinn accepted a position in the political science department at Boston University in 1964. His classes in civil liberties were among the most popular classes offered at BU with as many as 400 students subscribing each semester to the non-required class. He taught at BU for 24 years and retired in 1988. Zinn wrote one of the earliest books calling for the U.S. withdrawal from its war in Viet Nam. VietNam: The Logic of Withdrawal was published by Beacon Press in 1967 after articles that would later form the basis for the book had appeared first in Commonweal, The Nation, The Register-Leader, and Ramparts. Civil liberties is the name given to freedoms that protect the individual from government. ...

Zinn eagerly joined the Army Air Force during World War II to fight fascism, and he bombed targets in Berlin, Czechoslovakia and Hungary as he describes in this film clip. Zinn's anti-war stance was, in part, informed by his own experiences in the military. In April, 1945, he participated in one of the first military uses of napalm, which took place in Royan, France.^[3] USAAF recruitment poster. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... This article is about the capital of Germany. ... Royan is a small town and commune of the Charente-Maritime département, in western France. ...

2nd Lieut. Howard Zinn, bombardier, Army Air Force in England, 1945.

The bombings were aimed at German soldiers who were, in Zinn's words, hiding and waiting out the closing days of the war. The attacks killed not only the German soldiers but also French civilians. Nine years later, Zinn visited Royan to examine documents and interview residents. In his books, The Politics of History and The Zinn Reader, he described how the bombing was ordered at the war's end by decision-makers most probably motivated by the desire for career advancement rather than for legitimate military objectives. Image File history File linksMetadata Howard_Zinn_bombardier_England_1945. ...

Zinn said his experience as a bombardier, combined with his research into the reasons for and effects of the bombing of Royan, sensitized him to the ethical dilemmas faced by G.I.s during wartime.[16] Zinn questioned the justifications for military operations inflicting civilian casualties in the Allied bombing of cities such as Dresden, Royan, Tokyo, and Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II, Hanoi during the U.S. war in Vietnam, and Baghdad during the U.S. war in Iraq. In his pamphlet "Hiroshima: Breaking the Silence", Zinn laid out the case against targeting civilians.[17] Some have commented that Zinn's extensive critiques of Allied war policy, while ignoring the atrocities of the Axis powers, as well as those of the Soviet Red Army have crossed the line from revisionism into outright apologetics for Nazism and fascism. GI or G.I. is a term describing a member of the US armed forces or an item of their equipment. ... Citizens of Hiroshima walk by the A-Bomb Dome, the closest building to have survived the citys atomic bombing. ... Hanoi (Vietnamese: Hà Ná»™i, Hán Tá»±: 河内)  , estimated population 3,145,300 (2005), is the capital of Vietnam. ... The Vietnam War was a war fought between 1957 and 1975 on the ground in South Vietnam and bordering areas of Cambodia and Laos (See Secret War) and in bombing runs (Rolling Thunder) over North Vietnam. ... Baghdad (Arabic: ) is the capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate. ...

Vietnam

Zinn's diplomatic visit to Hanoi with Rev. Daniel Berrigan, during the Tet Offensive in January 1968, resulted in the return of three American airmen, the first American POWs released by the North Vietnamese since the U.S. bombing of that nation had begun. The event was widely reported in the news media and discussed in a variety of books including Who Spoke Up? American Protest Against the War in Vietnam 1963-1975 by Nancy Zaroulis and Gerald Sullivan [(Horizon Book Promotions: 1989) ISBN 0-385-17547-7]. Zinn remained friends and allies with the brothers Dan and Philip over the years. Daniel Berrigan at the Third Annual Staten Island Freedom & Peace Festival, Oct. ... Philip Berrigan Philip Berrigan (October 5, 1923 – December 6, 2002) was an internationally renowned American peace activist, Christian anarchist and former Roman Catholic priest. ...

Daniel Ellsberg, a former RAND consultant who had secretly copied The Pentagon Papers, which described internal planning and policy decisions of the United States in the Vietnam War, gave a copy of them to Howard and Roslyn Zinn. Though never prosecuted, Zinn's actions regarding the Pentagon Papers and his activities in Vietnam were technically acts of treason. This is in keeping with Zinn's openly expressed desire for the overthrow of the United States and the abrogation of its constitution, which he sees as oppressive. [Ellsberg autobiography, Zinn autobiography] Along with Noam Chomsky, Zinn edited and annotated the copy of The Pentagon Papers that Ellsberg entrusted to him. Zinn's longtime publisher, Beacon Press, published what has come to be known as the Senator Mike Gravel edition of The Pentagon Papers, four volumes plus a fifth volume with analysis by Chomsky and Zinn. Daniel and Patricia Marx Ellsberg - 2006 Jacob Appelbaum Daniel Ellsberg (born April 7, 1931) is a former American military analyst employed by the RAND Corporation who precipitated a national uproar in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, the U.S. militarys account of activities during the Vietnam War... The RAND Corporation is a nonprofit global policy think tank first formed to offer research and analysis to the United States armed forces. ... The Pentagon Papers are a seven-thousand-page top-secret United States Department of Defense history of the United States involvement in the Vietnam War from 1945 to 1971. ... For other uses, see Treason (disambiguation) or Traitor (disambiguation). ... Avram Noam Chomsky (Hebrew: אברם נועם חומסקי) (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, political activist, author, and lecturer. ... Maurice Robert Mike Gravel (IPA: ) (born May 13, 1930), is a former Democratic United States Senator from Alaska, having served for two terms, from 1969 to 1981. ...

Howard and Roslyn Zinn in 1965. Later, when their grandaughter worked to improve conditions for janitors at Wesleyan, the couple supported the effort.

At Ellsberg's criminal trial for theft, conspiracy, and espionage in connection with the publication of the Pentagon Papers by The New York Times, defense attorneys called Zinn as an expert witness to explain to the jury the history of U.S. involvement in Vietnam from World War II to 1963. Zinn discussed that history for several hours, later reflecting on his time before the jury. "I explained there was nothing in the papers of military significance that could be used to harm the defense of the United States, that the information in them was simply embarrassing to our government because what was revealed, in the government's own interoffice memos, was how it had lied to the American public. The secrets disclosed in the Pentagon Papers might embarrass politicians, might hurt the profits of corporations wanting tin, rubber, oil, in far-off places. But this was not the same as hurting the nation, the people," Zinn wrote in his autobiography. Most of the jurors later said they voted for acquittal. [p. 161] However, the federal judge dismissed the case on grounds it had been tainted by the burglary by President Richard M. Nixon's administration of the office of Ellsberg's psychiatrist. Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... Wesleyan is the adjective form of Wesley, referring either to John Wesley, the founder of Methodism (a denomination within Protestant Christianity) or to another of the Methodist branches within that denomination. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. ...

Roslyn and Howard Zinn at Boston University 1967. When secretaries struck at BU, Zinn and Dr. Murray Levin and Frances Fox Piven refused [4] to cross the picket line, and instead, taught classes off campus.

Zinn's testimony as to the motivation for government secrecy was confirmed in 1989 by Erwin Griswold, who as U.S. solicitor general during the Nixon administration, prosecuted The New York Times in the Pentagon Papers case in 1971.["The lie behind the secrets" by Tom Blanton, May 21, 2006, Los Angeles Times] Griswold persuaded three Supreme Court justices to vote to stop The New York Times from continuing to publish the Pentagon Papers, an order known as "prior restraint" that has been held to be illegal under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The papers were simultaneously published in The Washington Post, effectively nulling the effect of the prior restraint order. In 1989, Griswold admitted there was no national security damage from publication of the papers.[18] [19] In a column in the Washington Post, Griswold wrote: "It quickly becomes apparent to any person who has considerable experience with classified material that there is massive over classification and that the principal concern of the classifiers is not with national security, but with governmental embarrassment of one sort or another." Zinn supported the G.I. antiwar movement during the U.S. war in Vietnam. In the 2001 film Unfinished Symphony, Zinn provides historical context for the 1971 antiwar march by Vietnam Veterans against the War. The marchers traveled from Lexington, Massachusetts, to Bunker Hill, "which retraced Paul Revere's ride of 1775 and ended in the massive arrest of 410 veterans and civilians by the Lexington police." The film depicts "scenes from the 1971 'Winter Soldier' investigations, during which former G.I.s testified about atrocities" they either participated in or witnessed in Vietnam. [20] The Winter Soldier investigations were later widely discredited, revealing most of its participants as presenting false testimony or never having served in Vietnam at all. Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... Image needed Frances Fox Piven, born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in 1932, is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. ... The first ten Amendments to the U.S. Constitution make up the Bill of Rights. ... Page I of the Constitution of the United States of America Page II of the United States Constitution Page III of the United States Constitution Page IV of the United States Constitution The Syng inkstand, with which the Constitution was signed The Constitution of the United States is the supreme... The Washington Post is the largest newspaper in Washington, D.C.. It is also one of the citys oldest papers, having been founded in 1877. ... Several (classical) composers left fragments of symphonies that for various reasons could be considered incomplete or unfinished. ... Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) is a tax-exempt Non-profit organization and corporation, originally created to oppose the Vietnam War. ... Lexington is: The USS Lexington is one of five different ships of the United States Navy named after the battle of the American Revolutionary War at Lexington, Massachusetts. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... Bunker Hill is the name of: A hill in Charlestown, Massachusetts. ... For the song by the Beastie Boys, see Paul Revere (song). ... The Winter Soldier Investigation was a media event intended to publicize war crimes and atrocities by the United States Armed Forces and their allies in the Vietnam War, while showing their direct relationship to military leadership and the foreign and anti-Communist policies of the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon Presidential...

Zinn celebrated the North Vietnamese conquest of South Vietnam after the American withdrawal, along with its concomitant atrocities, which claimed the lives of nearly a million people. This one of the primary reasons that his critics consider Zinn's professed pacifism and concern for justice to be, at best, conscious hypocrisy. Zinn has continued to be a prominent apologist for the crimes of regimes he supports.

Iraq

Zinn opposed the invasion and occupation of Iraq, and has written several books about it. He asserts that the U.S. will end its war with, and occupation of, Iraq when resistance within the military increases, in the same way resistance within the military contributed to ending the U.S. war in Vietnam. He compares the demand by a growing number of contemporary U.S. military families to end the war in Iraq to the parallel "in the Confederacy in the Civil War, when the wives of soldiers rioted because their husbands were dying and the plantation owners were profiting from the sale of cotton, refusing to grow grains for civilians to eat." [21] This seems to contradict the overwhlemingly conservative political bent of those who serve in the military and their families.

"There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people for a purpose which is unattainable." "Terrorism Over Tripoli" from Zinn Reader, Seven Stories Press (1993) excerpted online

Jean-Christophe Agnew, Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University,[22] told the Yale Daily News in May 2007 that Zinn’s historical work is "highly influential and widely used".^[4] He observed that it is not unusual for prominent professors such as Zinn to weigh in on current events, citing a resolution opposing the war in Iraq that was recently ratified by the American Historical Association.[23] Agnew added, “In these moments of crisis, when the country is split — so historians are split.”^[5] Yale redirects here. ... A front page of the Yale Daily News. ... The American Historical Association (AHA) is a society of historians and teachers of history founded in 1884 and incorporated by the United States Congress in 1889. ...

A People's History

Main article: A People's History of the United States

As a historian, Zinn found that the point of view expressed in traditional history books was often limited. He created a historical text, A People's History of the United States with the goal to provide other perspectives of American history. The text depicts the struggles of Native Americans against European and U.S. conquest and expansion, slaves against slavery, unionists and other workers against capitalists, women against patriarchy, and African-Americans for civil rights. A Peoples History of the United States, 2003 hardcover edition A Peoples History of the United States is a nonfiction book by American historian and political scientist Howard Zinn, in which he seeks to present American history through the eyes of groups he says are rarely heard in... This article is about the people indigenous to the United States. ... Look up patriarchy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Civil rights or positive rights are those legal rights retained by citizens and protected by the government. ...

In the years since the first edition of A People's History was published in 1980, it has been used as an alternative to standard textbooks in many high school and college history courses, and is one of the most widely known examples of critical pedagogy. According to the New York Times Book Review it "routinely sells more than 100,000 copies a year".^[6] Critical pedagogy is a teaching approach which attempts to help students question and challenge domination, and the beliefs and practices that dominate. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ...

In the spring of 2003, to commemorate the sale of the millionth copy of A People's History, a dramatic reading was held at the 92nd Street Y in New York City. The reading featured Danny Glover, Andre Gregory, James Earl Jones, actress Myla Pitt, Marisa Tomei, Kurt Vonnegut, Alice Walker, Alfre Woodard, Harris Yulin, Jeff Zinn, producing artistic director of the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater [24], and Howard Zinn as narrator. The event aired on Democracy Now!, and was hosted by Amy Goodman, and is online at Democracy Now The program was also released as a book and CD under the title, The People Speak: American Voices, Some Famous, Some Little Known. The 92nd Street Y is a multifaceted cultural institution and community center located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. ... Danny Lebern Glover[1] (born July 22, 1946) is an American actor, film director, and political activist. ... Andre Gregory (born May 11, 1934, New York City) is a Jewish-American director and actor. ... James Earl Jones (b. ... Marisa Tomei (born December 4, 1964) is an Academy Award-winning American film and stage actress. ... Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. ... Alice Malsenior Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American author and feminist. ... Alfre Ette Woodard (born November 8, 1952) is an American actress. ... As Quentin Travers in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. ... Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! Amy Goodman b. ...

Interwoven with commentary by Zinn, both the book and the dramatic reading upon which the newer book is based, includes passages from Zinn's research in A People's History of the United States on Christopher Columbus on the Arawaks; Plough Jogger, a farmer and participant in Shays' Rebellion; Harriet Hanson, a Lowell mill worker; Frederick Douglass; Mark Twain; Mother Jones; Emma Goldman; Helen Keller; Eugene V. Debs; Langston Hughes; Genova Johnson Dollinger on a sit-down strike at General Motors in Flint, Michigan; an interrogation from a 1953 HUAC hearing; Fannie Lou Hamer, a sharecropper and member of the Freedom Democratic Party; Malcolm X; and James Lawrence Harrington, a Gulf War resister, among others. Christopher Columbus (1451 – May 20, 1506) was a navigator and colonialist who is one of the first Europeans to discover the Americas, after the Vikings. ... Arowak woman (John Gabriel Stedman) The term Arawak (from aru, the Lokono word for cassava flour), was used to designate the Amerindians encountered by the Spanish in the West Indies. ... Shays rebellion was an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts from 1786 to 1787. ... Frederick Douglass, ca. ... Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910),[1] better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, satirist, lecturer and writer. ... Mary Harris Jones (August 1, 1837 – November 30, 1930), better known as Mother Jones, was a prominent American labor and community organizer, and Wobbly. ... Theory Issues Culture By region Lists Anarchism Portal Politics Portal ·        Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 – May 14, 1940) aka Red Emma, was a Lithuanian-born anarchist known for her writings and speeches. ... Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was a deafblind American author, activist and lecturer. ... Eugene Victor Debs (November 5, 1855 – October 20, 1926) was an American labor and political leader, one of the founders of the International Labor Union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and five-time Socialist Party of America candidate for President of the United States. ... Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer, and columnist. ... A sitdown strike is a form of civil disobedience in which an organized group of workers, usually employed at a factory or other centralized location, take possession of the workplace by sitting down at their stations, effectively preventing their employers from replacing them with scab labor or, in some cases... General Motors Corporation, also known as GM, an American multinational corporation, is the worlds largest auto company by production volume for the first 9 months of 2007, and by sales volume for 76 consecutive years. ... This article is about the U.S. State. ... The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) was an investigating committee of the United States House of Representatives. ... Fannie Lou Hamer (born Fannie Lou Townsend on October 6, 1917 – March 14, 1977) was an American voting rights activist and civil rights leader. ... Malcolm X, born Malcolm Little, also known as Detroit Red and Al-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Omaha, Nebraska, May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965 in New York City) was a Muslim Minister and National Spokesman for the Nation of Islam. ...

Kurt Vonnegut read the words of Mark Twain at the event celebrating the work of Zinn, a fellow World War II veteran. Vonnegut read from Twain, who spoke out after President Theodore Roosevelt congratulated a general involved in the 1906 Moro Crater massacre in the Philippines. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910),[1] better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, satirist, lecturer and writer. ... Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. ... The Moro Crater massacre was the 1906 massacre, carried out by the U.S. Army during the subjugation of the Philippines. ...

"It should, it seems to me, be our pleasure and duty to make these people free and let them deal with their own domestic questions in their own way; and so I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land," Vonnegut quoted Twain during the reading. ^[7]

In 2004, Zinn published Voices of A People's History of the United States with Anthony Arnove. Voices expands on the concept and provides a large collection of dissident voices in long form. The book is intended as a companion to A People's History and parallels its structure. Anthony Arnove is a book editor, agent and activist. ...

Zinn was a consultant to the six-part documentary A People's History of the United States [25], a television series produced by Alvin H. Perlmutter. According to the documentary's website, the series is expected to be broadcast in 2007. Alvin H. Perlmutter, Director of The Independent Production Fund, has produced television programming for over thirty years. ...

After years of requests from parents and teachers for a younger readers' version of A People's History, in July 2007 Seven Stories Press has published A Young People's History of the United States, a two-volume, illustrated adaptation of the original text for young adult readers (ages 10-14), updated through the end of 2006. Seven Stories Press is an independent publishing company located in New York City, USA that concentrates on fiction and timely, informative nonfiction. ... A Peoples History of the United States, 2003 hardcover edition A Peoples History of the United States is a nonfiction book by American historian and political scientist Howard Zinn, in which he seeks to present American history through the eyes of groups he says are rarely heard in...

Critical reception

When A People's History of the United States was first published in 1980, the New York Times reviewer, Columbia University historian Eric Foner, described the book as filled with telling quotations and vivid descriptions of usually ignored events, and said that "Zinn writes with an enthusiasm rarely encountered in the leaden prose of academic history." However, referring to Zinn's focus on "the distinctive experience of blacks, women, Indians, workers and other neglected groups," Foner said, "The portrayal of these anonymous Americans is strangely circumscribed. Blacks, Indians, women and laborers appear either as rebels or as victims. Less dramatic but more typical lives — people struggling to survive with dignity in difficult circumstances — receive little attention", adding, "A People's History reflects a deeply pessimistic vision of the American experience." Summing up, Foner found the approach to be limited, and said further that the book needed "an integrated account incorporating Thomas Jefferson and his slaves, Andrew Jackson and the Indians, Woodrow Wilson and the Wobblies."^[8] The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... Alma Mater Columbia University is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. ... Eric Foner (born February 7, 1943 in New York City) is an American historian. ...

Writing in the Washington Post Book World, reviewer Michael Kammen, a professor of American History at Cornell, wrote: "I wish that I could pronounce Zinn's book a great success, but it is not. It is a synthesis of the radical and revisionist historiography of the past decade. . . Not only does the book read like a scissors and paste-pot job, but even less attractive, so much attention to historians, historiography and historical polemic leaves precious little space for the substance of history. . . . We do deserve a people's history; but not a singleminded, simpleminded history, too often of fools, knaves and Robin Hoods. We need a judicious people's history because the people are entitled to have their history whole; not just those parts that will anger or embarrass them. . . . If that is asking for the moon, then we will cheerfully settle for balanced history."^[9] ... Michael Kammen wrote a book called A Machine That Would Go of Itself, arguing that the U.S. Constitution is not a machine, but rather an organism. ... Cornell is the name of some places in the United States of America. ...

In a 2004 article in Dissent critiquing the 5th edition of A People's History of the United States, Georgetown University history professor Michael Kazin argued that Zinn's book is too focused on class conflict, and wrongly attributes sinister motives to the American political elite. He also characterized the book as an overly simplistic narrative of elite villains and oppressed people, with no attempt to understand historical actors in the context of the time in which they lived. Kazin writes, "The ironic effect of such portraits of rulers is to rob 'the people' of cultural richness and variety, characteristics that might gain the respect and not just the sympathy of contemporary readers. For Zinn, ordinary Americans seem to live only to fight the rich and haughty and, inevitably, to be fooled by them."^[10] Kazin argues further that A People's History fails to explain why the American political-economic model continues to attract millions of minorities, women, workers, and immigrants, or why the socialist and radical political movements Zinn favors have failed to gain widespread support among the American public. Dissent Magazine is a left-wing magazine that was started in 1954 by Irving Howe and Lewis Coser. ... Georgetown University is an elite private research university located in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., United States. ... Class conflict is both the friction that accompanies social relationships between members or groups of different social classes and the underlying tensions or antagonisms which exist in society. ...

Responding to Kazin's criticism, Dale McCartney, editor of the Canadian online magazine, Seven Oaks, writes: Seven Oaks (ISSN 1710-3061) is an online political magazine based in Vancouver, Canada. ...

Zinn is not neglecting a more objective perspective on American history; he's rejecting it in favor of an openly political stance that reclaims the history of oppressed peoples, regardless of race or gender. His popularity is testament to both the appeal of such a reading of American history, and the desperate thirst of working class people, people of colour, women and the many other victims of modern society's ravages for a history in which they are at the centre. I would go so far as to argue that not only has Kazin underestimated the importance of this role for Zinn's book, but that the academic tradition of objectivity (read: liberalism that favors white men) has played a key role in marginalizing oppressed peoples and derailing social movements. Zinn's work is an important corrective to this destructive tradition in historical writing.^[11]

Awards, references in pop culture and other accomplishments

Zinn's first book, La Guardia in Congress, won the American Historical Association's Beveridge Prize as the best English-language book on American history. The American Historical Association (AHA) is a society of historians and teachers of history founded in 1884 and incorporated by the United States Congress in 1889. ... The Albert J. Beveridge Award was established in 1928 in memory of United States Senator Beveridge of Indiana, former secretary and longtime member of the American Historical Association, through a gift from his wife, Catherine Beveridge and donations from AHA members from his home state. ... Pre-Colonial America For details, see the main Pre-Colonial America article. ...

Zinn has received the Thomas Merton Award and the Eugene V. Debs Award. In 1998, he won the Lannan Literary Award[26] for nonfiction and the following year won the Upton Sinclair Award, which honors social activism. In 2003, Zinn was awarded the Prix des Amis du Monde Diplomatique[27] for the French version of his seminal work, Une histoire populaire des Etats-Unis. Thomas Merton (January 31, 1915 – December 10, 1968) was one of the most influential Catholic authors of the 20th century. ... Eugene Victor Debs (November 5, 1855 – October 20, 1926) was an American labor and political leader, one of the founders of the International Labor Union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and five-time Socialist Party of America candidate for President of the United States. ... The Lannan Literary Awards are a series of awards and literary fellowships given out in various fields. ... Upton Sinclair Jr. ...

On October 5, 2006, Howard Zinn received the Haven's Center Award for Lifetime Contribution to Critical Scholarship in Madison, Wisconsin.[28] Nickname: Mad Town or Mad City Location of Madison in Dane County, Wisconsin Municipality City Incorporated 1848 Government  - Mayor Dave Cieslewicz Area    - City 136. ... Official language(s) None Capital Madison Largest city Milwaukee Largest metro area Greater Milwaukee Area  Ranked 23rd  - Total 65,498 sq mi (169,790 km²)  - Width 260 miles (420 km)  - Length 310 miles (500 km)  - % water 17  - Latitude 42° 30′ N to 47° 05′ N  - Longitude 86° 46′ W to...

Zinn is a ^[12] of the advisory board of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, and of the Disarm Education Fund ^[13] The National Bill of Rights Defense Committee (BORDC) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization which encourages local communities to take an active role in the ongoing national debate about threats to civil liberties guaranteed by the Bill of Rights, such as the USA PATRIOT Act, NSA warrantless surveillance controversy, and the...

Zinn's autobiography is You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train. A biographical documentary film called Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train (2004) was shown in select theaters. The film, on DVD, by Deb Ellis and Denis Mueller[29] contains music composed by Richard Martinez[30] and features music by Billy Bragg, Woodie Guthrie, and Pearl Jam. The film includes footage of Howard and Roslyn Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Marian Wright Edelman, Daniel Ellsberg, Tom Hayden and Alice Walker. The 78-minute film on DVD includes these special features: On Human Nature and Aggression; Zinn's speech at Veterans for Peace Conference, 2004; and audio of his 1971 speech at the Boston Common on Civil Disobedience. In the film, Noam Chomsky says Zinn "changed the consciousness of a generation." Stephen William Bragg (born December 20, 1957), known as Billy Bragg, is an English musician renowned for his blend of folk, punk-rock, and protest music, and his poetic lyrics dealing with political as well as romantic themes. ... Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (July 14, 1912 - October 3, 1967), known almost universally as Woody, was a folk singer and raconteur who wrote some of Americas best-loved songs. ... This article is about the rock group. ... Avram Noam Chomsky (Hebrew: אברם נועם חומסקי) (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, political activist, author, and lecturer. ... Marian Wright Edelman (born June 6, 1939) is the president and founder of the Childrens Defense Fund. ... Daniel and Patricia Marx Ellsberg - 2006 Jacob Appelbaum Daniel Ellsberg (born April 7, 1931) is a former American military analyst employed by the RAND Corporation who precipitated a national uproar in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, the U.S. militarys account of activities during the Vietnam War... Tom Hayden outside the 2004 Democratic National Convention Thomas Emmett Tom Hayden (born December 11, 1939) is an American social and political activist and politician, most famous for his involvement in the anti-war and civil rights movements of the 1960s. ... Alice Malsenior Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American author and feminist. ...

The film was narrated by actor Matt Damon who lived next door to the Zinns as a child in the wealthy, priveleged suburb of West Newton, Massachusetts. Damon included a reference to A People's History in his film Good Will Hunting. In a confrontation with his psychologist, played by Robin Williams, Damon's character tells him: "If you want to read a real history book, read Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States." That book will knock you on your ass." Damon also read the latter half of People's History for an audiobook released February 1, 2003 (ISBN 0-06-053006-5). People's History was referenced in a Columbus Day episode of the TV show The Sopranos. Matthew Paige Matt Damon (born October 8, 1970) is an American screenwriter and actor. ... West Newton is a village of Newton, Massachusetts (right next to Boston). ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... For other persons named Robin Williams, see Robin Williams (disambiguation). ... is the 32nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Columbus Day is a holiday celebrating the anniversary of the October 12, 1492, arrival of Christopher Columbus to the Americas. ... This article is about the television series. ...

In October 2005, Chicago's indie punk label Thick Records released a CD called You Can't Blow Up A Social Relationship by Springfield-based indie rock band, Resident Genius, featuring excerpts from several Zinn talks. The six Zinn excerpts are "a greatest hits of his speeches recorded over the last 15 years by Roger Leisner of Radio Free Maine. They touch on his 'usual' topics of engaged activism, history from below, war, the media and much more."[31] Nickname: Motto: Urbs in Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location in the Chicago metro area and Illinois Coordinates: , Country State Counties Cook, DuPage Settled 1770s Incorporated March 4, 1837 Government  - Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Area  - City 234. ... In popular music, indie music (from independent) is any of a number of genres, scenes, subcultures and stylistic and cultural attributes, characterised by perceived independence from commercial pop music and mainstream culture and an autonomous, do-it-yourself (DIY) approach. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... CD redirects here. ... : Home of President Abraham Lincoln United States Illinois Sangamon 60. ...

Zinn's "You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train" is mentioned in System of a Down's song, "Deer Dance". The line "You can't be neutral on a moving train" is the basis for the Pearl Jam B-Side "Down". Down is a song by Pearl Jam. ...

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He has expressed support for Democratic Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich as well as his efforts to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney. Dennis John Kucinich (born October 8, 1946) is an American politician of the Democratic party and a candidate for President of the United States in both 2004 and 2008. ... Richard Bruce Dick Cheney (born January 30, 1941), is the 46th and current Vice President of the United States, serving under President George W. Bush. ...

Theatrical works

Zinn has written three plays, including Daughter of Venus (1985), Emma and Marx in Soho. Daughter of Venus is a play written by historian Howard Zinn. ... Emma is a play by Howard Zinn. ...

Emma is based on the life of the early 20th century anarchist Emma Goldman. Goldman, an anarchist, feminist, and free-spirited thinker was exiled from the United States because of her viewpoints, including her staunch opposition to World War I. As Zinn writes in his Introduction, Emma Goldman 'seemed to be tireless as she traveled the country, lecturing to large audiences everywhere, on birth control (‘A woman should decide for herself’), on the falsity of marriage as an institution (‘Marriage has nothing to do with love’), on patriotism (‘the last refuge of a scoundrel’) on free love (‘What is love if not free?’), and also on drama, including Shaw, Ibsen, and Strindberg'. Theory Issues Culture By region Lists Anarchism Portal Politics Portal ·        Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 – May 14, 1940) aka Red Emma, was a Lithuanian-born anarchist known for her writings and speeches. ... “The Great War ” redirects here. ... The term free love has been used since at least the nineteenth century to describe a social movement that rejects marriage, which is seen as a form of social bondage, especially for women. ...

Zinn's most recent play is Marx in Soho: A Play on History,[32] a drama that has been continuously performed [33] to encouraging reviews^{[14] [15]} in small theaters throughout the United States, with Brian Jones in the title role starting in 1999 through 2005. In February 2005, Bob Weick took on the title role in a traveling tour. Tour details are at the Iron Age Theatre.^[16]

Books written or edited by Howard Zinn

Books

• Artists in Times of War (2003) ISBN 1-58322-602-8
• The Cold War & the University: Toward an Intellectual History of the Postwar Years (Noam Chomsky (Editor) Authors: Ira Katznelson[34], R. C. Lewontin, David Montgomery, Laura Nader, Richard Ohmann[35], Ray Siever, Immanuel Wallerstein, Howard Zinn (1997) ISBN 1-56584-005-4
• Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology (1991) ISBN 0-06-092108-0 [36]
• Disobedience and Democracy: Nine Fallacies on Law and Order (1968, re-issued 2002) ISBN 0-89608-675-5
• Emma: A Play in Two Acts About Emma Goldman, American Anarchist (2002) ISBN 0-89608-664-X
• Failure to Quit: Reflections of an Optimistic Historian (1993) ISBN 0-89608-676-3
• The Future of History: Interviews With David Barsamian (1999) ISBN 1-56751-157-0
• Hiroshima: Breaking the Silence (pamphlet, 1995) ISBN 1-884519-14-8
• Howard Zinn On Democratic Education Donaldo Macedo, Editor (2004) ISBN 1-59451-054-7
• Howard Zinn on History (2000) ISBN 1-58322-048-8
• Howard Zinn on War (2000) ISBN 1-58322-049-6
• Justice in Everyday Life: The Way It Really Works (Editor) (1974) ISBN 0-89608-677-1
• Justice? Eyewitness Accounts (1977) ISBN 0-8070-4479-2
• La Otra Historia De Los Estados Unidos (2000) ISBN 1-58322-054-2
• LaGuardia in Congress (1959) ISBN 0-8371-6434-6, ISBN 0-393-00488-0
• Marx in Soho: A Play on History (1999) ISBN 0-89608-593-7
• New Deal Thought (editor) (1965) ISBN 0-87220-685-8
• Passionate Declarations: Essays on War and Justice (2003) ISBN 0-06-055767-2
• The Pentagon Papers Senator Gravel Edition. Vol. Five. Critical Essays. Boston. Beacon Press, 1972. 341p. plus 72p. of Index to Vol. I-IV of the Papers, Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, editors
• A People's History of the Civil War: Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom by David Williams, Howard Zinn (Series Editor) (2005) ISBN 1-59558-018-2
• A People's History of the United States: 1492 – Present (1980), revised (1995)(1998)(1999)(2003) ISBN 0-06-052837-0
• A People's History of the United States: Teaching Edition Abridged (2003 updated) ISBN 1-56584-826-8
• A People's History of the United States: The Civil War to the Present Kathy Emery Ellen Reeves Howard Zinn (2003 teaching edition) ISBN 1-56584-725-3
• A People's History of the United States: The Wall Charts by Howard Zinn and George Kirschner (1995) ISBN 1-56584-171-9
• The People Speak: American Voices, Some Famous, Some Little Known (2004) ISBN 0-06-057826-2
• Playbook by Maxine Klein, Lydia Sargent and Howard Zinn (1986) ISBN 0-89608-309-8
• The Politics of History (1970) (2nd edition 1990) ISBN 0-252-06122-5
• Postwar America: 1945 – 1971 (1973) ISBN 0-89608-678-X
• A Power Governments Cannot Suppress (2006) ISBN 978-0872864757
• The Power of Nonviolence: Writings by Advocates of Peace Editor (2002) ISBN 0-8070-1407-9
• SNCC: The New Abolitionists (1964) ISBN 0-89608-679-8
• The Southern Mystique (1962) ISBN 0-89608-680-1
• Terrorism and War (2002) ISBN 1-58322-493-9 (interviews, Anthony Arnove (Ed.))
• The Twentieth Century: A People's History (2003) ISBN 0-06-053034-0
• Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century (Dana Frank, Robin Kelley, and Howard Zinn) (2002) ISBN 0-8070-5013-X
• Vietnam: The Logic of Withdrawal (1967) ISBN 0-89608-681-X
• Voices of a People’s History of the United States (with Anthony Arnove, 2004) ISBN 1-58322-647-8
• You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times (1994) ISBN 0-8070-7127-7
• A Young People's History of the United States, adapted from the original text by Rebecca Stefoff; illustrated and updated through 2006, with new introduction and afterward by Howard Zinn; two volumes, Seven Stories Press, New York, 2007.
  • Vol. 1: Columbus to the Spanish-American War. ISBN 978-1-58322-759-6
  • Vol. 2: Class Struggle to the War on Terror. ISBN 978-1-58322-760-2
• The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy (1997) ISBN 1-888363-54-1

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Forewords and introductions by Howard Zinn

• A Gigantic Mistake by Mickey Z, (2004) ISBN 1-930997-97-3
• A People's History of the Supreme Court by Peter H. Irons (2000) ISBN 0-14-029201-2
• A Political Dynasty In North Idaho, 1933-1967 by Randall Doyle (2004) ISBN 0-7618-2843-5
• American Political Prisoners: Prosecutions Under the Espionage and Sedition Acts by Stephen M. Kohn (1994) ISBN 0-275-94415-8
• American Power and the New Mandarins by Noam Chomsky (2002) ISBN 1-56584-775-X
• Broken Promises Of America: At Home And Abroad, Past And Present: An Encyclopedia For Our Times by (Douglas F. Dowd (2004) ISBN 1-56751-313-1
• Deserter From Death: Dispatches From Western Europe 1950-2000 by Daniel Singer (2005) ISBN 1-56025-642-7
• Ecocide of Native America: Environmental Destruction of Indian Lands and Peoples by Donald Grinde, Bruce Johansen (1994) ISBN 0-940666-52-9
• Eugene V. Debs Reader: Socialism and the Class Struggle by William A. Pelz (2000) ISBN 0-9704669-0-0
• From a Native Son: Selected Essays in Indigenism, 1985 – 1995 by Ward Churchill (1996) ISBN 0-89608-553-8
• Green Parrots: A War Surgeon's Diary by Gino Strada, (2005) ISBN 88-8158-420-4
• Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear And The Selling Of American Empire by Sut Jhally editor, Jeremy Earp editor, (2004) ISBN 1-56656-581-2
• If You're Not a Terrorist…Then Stop Asking Questions! by Micah Ian Wright, (2004) ISBN 1-58322-626-5
• Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal by Anthony Arnove, (2006) ISBN 978-1-59558-079-5
• Impeach the President: The Case Against Bush and Cheney Dennis Loo (Editor), Peter Phillips (Editor) Seven Stories Press: 2006)ISBN 1583227431
• Life of an Anarchist: The Alexander Berkman Reader by Alexander Berkman Gene Fellner, editor, (2004) ISBN 1-58322-662-1
• Long Shadows: Veterans' Paths to Peace by David Giffey editor, (2006) ISBN 1-89185-964-9
• Masters of War: Latin America and United States Aggression from the Cuban Revolution Through the Clinton Years by Clara Nieto, Chris Brandt (trans) (2003) ISBN 1-58322-545-5
• Peace Signs: The Anti-War Movement Illustrated by James Mann, editor (2004) ISBN 3-283-00487-0
• Prayer for the Morning Headlines: On the Sanctity of Life and Death by Daniel Berrigan (poetry) and Adrianna Amari (photography), (2007) ISBN 978-1-934074-16-9
• Silencing Political Dissent: How Post-9-11 Anti-terrorism Measures Threaten Our Civil Liberties by Nancy Chang, Center for Constitutional Rights (2002) ISBN 1-58322-494-7
• Soldiers In Revolt: GI Resistance During The Vietnam War by David Cortright, (2005) ISBN 1-931859-27-2
• Sold to the Highest Bidder: The Presidency from Dwight D. Eisenhower to George W. Bush by Daniel M. Friedenberg (2002) ISBN 1-57392-923-9
• The Autobiography of Abbie Hoffman Intro by Norman Mailer, Afterword by HZ (2000) ISBN 1-56858-197-1
• The Case for Socialism by Alan Maass, (2004) ISBN 1-931859-09-4
• The Forging of the American Empire: From the Revolution to Vietnam, a History of U.S. Imperialism by Sidney Lens (2003) ISBN 0-7453-2101-1
• The Higher Law: Thoreau on Civil Disobedience and Reform by Henry David Thoreau Wendell Glick, editor, (2004) ISBN 0-691-11876-0
• The Iron Heel by Jack London, (1971) ISBN 0-143-03971-7
• The Sixties Experience: Hard Lessons about Modern America by Edward P. Morgan, (1992) ISBN 1-56639-014-1
• You Back the Attack, We'll Bomb Who We Want by Micah Ian Wright, (2003) ISBN 1-58322-584-6

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Op-Ed Pieces

• "On Terror", New York Times, Sunday Review of Books Zinn refutes Samantha Power's moral distinction between civilian deaths by aerial bombings and those caused by suicide bombings as "illogical". Zinn has been a lifelong supporter of terrorism and seems particularly pleased by the murder of innocent people for political reasons.

The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... The New York Times Sunday Review of Books is a weekly collection of book reviews published by The New York Times. ...

Compact discs

• A People's History of the United States (1999)
• Artists in the Time of War (2002)
• Heroes & Martyrs: Emma Goldman, Sacco & Vanzetti, and the Revolutionary Struggle (2000)
• Stories Hollywood Never Tells (2000)
• You Can't Blow Up A Social Relationship - split CD featuring Zinn talks and noted indie rock band Resident genius (Thick Records) (2005)

Zinn is currently on the Alternative Tentacles record label run by ex-Dead Kennedys vocalist Jello Biafra. Alternative Tentacles sells all forms of Zinn media, including books, films, and compact discs, and stocks hard-to-find Zinn material. Resident Genius is a three-piece Springfield, Illinois-based independent rock band. ... Alternative Tentacles is an independent record label based in San Francisco, California and was established in 1979. ... Eric Reed Boucher (born June 17, 1958) is more widely known by the stage name Jello Biafra. ...

Biographies and profiles

• Howard Zinn: A Radical American Vision, by Davis D. Joyce, foreword by Noam Chomsky, Prometheus Books, 2003. ISBN 1-59102-131-6
• Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral On A Moving Train Biographic film by Deb Ellis and Denis Mueller (2004)

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References

1. ^ Organization of American Historians. Obituary of August Meier, May 2003 by John Bracey University of Massachusetts, Amherst[1]
2. ^ "Edelman, Marian Wright. "Spelman College: A Safe Haven for A Young Black Woman." The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, no. 27 (2000): 118-123.
3. ^ Zinn, Howard (1990). Declarations of Independence. New York, NY: HarperPerennial. ISBN 0060921080. 
4. ^ http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/21049
5. ^ http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/04/963/
6. ^ "Backlist to the Future" by Rachel Donadio, July 30, 2006
7. ^ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/patriots_day_stop_the_violence/
8. ^ Foner, Eric, "Majority Report", New York Times Book Review, March 2, 1980, pp. BR3-BR4.
9. ^ Kammen, Michael, "How the Other Half Lived", Washington Post Book World, March 23, 1980, p. 7
10. ^ "Howard Zinn's History Lessons", by Michael Kazin, Dissent, Spring 2004
11. ^ "Accessing history: The importance of Howard Zinn" by Dale McCartney, Seven Oaks Magazine, March 29, 2004
12. ^ http://www.bordc.org/about/advisory.php member
13. ^ http://www.disarm.org/about/staff.html [2]
14. ^ [3]
15. ^ LA Weekly
16. ^ Iron Age Theatre.

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External links

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Howard Zinn

• Howard Zinn's homepage
• Howard Zinn and the Omissions of U.S. History, The Tavis Smiley Show, November 27, 2003, National Public Radio
• G7 Welcoming Committee - A record label that has put out several Howard Zinn spoken word albums.
• Howard Zinn's articles for ZNet and Z Mag
• Howard Zinn's articles for The Progressive
• A People's History of the United States (The entire book)
• War is the Health of the State Interview with Zinn
• [37]War is not a solution for terrorism
• joint Howard Zinn - Noam Chomsky interview, April 16 2007 part one part two
• What the left thinks: Howard Zinn, Part I Truncated interview with Dennis Prager
• What the left thinks: Howard Zinn, Part II Truncated with Dennis Prager
• You can't be neutral on a moving train (Progressive Podcast audiofile)
• Documentary film Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
• "The Power and the Glory: Myths of American Exceptionalism" Boston Reivew

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Online interviews and video

• Zinn and the Art of Democracy (April 26, 2007) Interview by Freda Moon for The New Haven Advocate
• Democracy Now! with Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky
• On Civil Disobedience: State of Nature Interview with Howard Zinn (January, 2007)
• "Bringing Democracy Alive" — the inaugural lecture in the Howard Zinn Lecture Series at Boston University, (November 2, 2006)
• [http://www.archive.org/download/dn2006-1124_vid/dn2006-1124_256kb.mp4 Speech at University of Wisconsin-Madison, December 2006
• Interview with Zinn for Guernica Magazine (guernicamag.com)
• What the left thinks: Howard Zinn, Part I, interview with Dennis Prager (September 12, 2006)
• Transcript ofPBS interview by Bill Moyers (January 10, 2003)
• C-SPAN Book TV In Depth (3-hour interview)
• Interview with Howard Zinn on Air America Radio's The Majority Report (April 16th, 2004)
• "The Myth of American Exceptionalism" (April 13, 2005) Videolecture published by MIT World and sponsored by MIT SPURS/Humphrey Program.
• Public Reading of A People's History of the United Stateswith Howard Zinn, Jeff Zinn,[38] James Earl Jones, Harris Yulin, Andre Gregory, Marisa Tomei, Danny Glover, Myla Pitt, Kurt Vonnegut, Alfre Woodard, Alice Walker
• Interviewed by David Barsamian (November 11, 1992)
• Gray Matters Interviews Howard Zinn (December 3, 1998)
• Interview by Harry Kreisler (April 20, 2001)
• Interview by Robert Birnbaum at identitytheory.com (April 3, 2003)
• January 23, 2005. Media Matters WILL-AM
• April 23, 2006. Media Matters WILL-AM
• A-Infos Radio Project: Talks by Howard Zinn
• 1996 Interview on the death penalty
• Human Nature and War
• Rawstory.com interview (September 9, 2005) — Compares U.S. wars in Iraq and Vietnam.
• Amy Goodman: Conversations with Howard Zinn on Democracy Now! (1997 – 2005), based on a compilation at HowardZinn.org
• December 17, 2006. Media Matters WILL-AM
  • "A special hour-long conversation: To Be Neutral, To Be Passive In A Situation Is To Collaborate With Whatever Is Going On" (April 27, 2005)Interview with Amy Goodman
  • "Bush Represents Everything That Martin Luther King Opposed" (January 20, 2005)[39]
  • "If young people going to school knew the history of American expansion, first on the continent and then in the world, and if they knew the history of lies and the history of massacres that took place alongside this expansion, nobody would go to a recruiting station to sign up for any war - nobody." - (January 6, 2005) The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
  • "Reaction to John Kerry's Concession and the Reelection of George W Bush" (November 3, 2004)[40]
  • "Nader vs. Anybody But Bush: A Debate on Ralph Nader's Candidacy" (October 26, 2004)[41]
  • "Candidates Not Addressing Fundamental Issues of American Policy" in the World"(October 14, 2004)[42]
  • "Revolutionary Non-Violence: Remembering Dave Dellinger, 1915-2004" (May 27, 2004)[43]
  • "Labor Day Special: Howard Zinn on Occupied Iraq, the Role of Resistance Movements, Government Lies and the Media" (September 1, 2003)[44]
  • "Independence Day Special: A Dramatic Reading of 'A People's History of the United States' with James Earl Jones, Alfre Woodard, Kurt Vonnegut, Danny Glover, Harris Yulin and others"(July 4, 2003) [45]
  • "Howard Zinn and Arundhati Roy: A Conversation Between Two Leading Social Critics" (May 28, 2003)[46]
  • "Howard Zinn Talks About Bombs, Terrorism, the Anti-War Movement and the Bush Administration's Impending War On Iraq" (February 25, 2003) [47]
  • "People's History of the United States, 1,000,000 Copies and Counting: Alice Walker, Danny Glover, Kurt Vonnegut, Marisa Tomei and Others Celebrate Howard Zinn's Classic" (February 25, 2003)[48]
  • "Renowned Historian Howard Zinn On the History of Government and Media Lies in Time of War" (February 13, 2003)[49]
  • "President Bush Takes the Nation to the Brink of War and Defends American Empire in His State of the Union Address; Simultaneously, He Tries to Prove He Cares About the Economy" (January 29, 2003)[50]
  • "Over 600 Gather for the Funeral of Legendary Anti-War Activist Philip Berrigan in Baltimore: We Hear From Historian Howard Zinn and Brendan Walsh, Who Co-Founded Viva House, a Catholic Worker House in Baltimore"(December 10, 2003)[51]
  • "Howard Zinn On the History of the US Government and CIA 'Changing Regimes' Around the World" (November 28, 2003)[52]
  • "Saying No to War: From Boston to Washington, D.C. to Madison, Wisconsin, We Hear From Howard Zinn, Medea Benjamin and Others" (October 29, 2003)[53]
  • "Congress Holds Joint Session in New York for First Time in 200 Years" (September 6, 2003)[54]
  • "The People's Historian" (June 21, 2002)[55]
  • "Reflections On 9/11 and Beyond" (March 11, 2002)[56]
  • "Where Are We Heading: Terrorism, Global Security, and the Peace Movement": During a Time Ofseemingly Endless War, We'll Hear From Radical Historian Howard Zinn" (February 22, 2002)[57]
  • "As Bush Delivers His First State of the Union Address, Democracy Now! Convenes a Shadowcongress to Respond" (January 30, 2002)[58]
  • "As Pacifica Stations WBAI, KPFK and WPFW Continue to Censor Democracy Now!, a Medley of The Voices That Pacifica Has Refused to Air Since September 11" (January 8, 2002)[59]
  • "Howard Zinn Speaks On the US War Against Afghanistan, US Wars Gone By, and the Prospects for a Humane US Foreign Policy" (Part II) (October 22, 2001)[60]
  • "Howard Zinn Speaks On the US War Against Afghanistan, US Wars Gone By, and the Prospects for a Humane US Foreign Policy" (Part I) (October 22, 2001)[61]
  • "Manning Marable, Howard Zinn and Grace Paley Speak Out Against the Bush Administration'smarch to War" (September 13, 2001)[62]
  • "Pearl Harbor: The Corporatization of History" (Part II) (Wednesday, May 30, 2001)[63]
  • "The Electoral College and Election 2000: A Historical Perspective From Howard Zinn" ( December 8, 2000) [64]
  • "American History Review of the 20th Century: Manning Marable and Howard Zinn" (December 27, 1999)[65]
  • "A People's History of the United States" (May 18, 1999)[66]
  • "Historian Howard Zinn Discusses Mergers" of two oil giants Exxon and Mobil (December 7, 1998)[67]
  • "Historian Zinn Addresses Nation's Censored Reports" (May 13, 1998)[68][69]
  • "Columbus Day Broadcast: A Talk by Howard Zinn" (October 13, 1997) [70]

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Criticism of Howard Zinn

• "Howard Zinn's History Lessons" by Michael Kazin
• Master of Deceit by Daniel J. Flynn. Retrieved 2006-09-13.