“for introducing a different way of thinking about the world, about war, about human rights, about equality,”
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Howard Zinn
Howard Zinn was an American historian and a veteran of World War II. He was chair of the history and social sciences department at Spelman College, and a political science professor at Boston University. Zinn wrote more than 20 books, including his best-selling and influential A People's History of the United States in 1980. In 2007, he published a version of it for younger readers, A Young People…
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culture · American historian and socialist philosopher (1922–2010) · playwright · political scientist · historian · writer · university teacher · journalist · peace activist · labor historian · human rights defender · film director · also Howard Zinn, Zinn
Born 24 August 1922 · Died 27 January 2010 · Q119546
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2026· 5 entries
“are probably the most interesting, exciting, most educational years for me. I learned more from my students than my students learned from me.”
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“was an astonishingly accurate preview of the New Deal.”
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“If Richard Hofstadter were adding to his book The American Political Tradition, in which he found both”
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The Guardian: ‘Like if John Sayles directed Forrest Gump’: the incredible life of historian Howard Zinn
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2016· 1 entry
“Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can quietly become a power no government can suppress, a power that can transform the world.”
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2010· 5 entries
A Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request resulted in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) releasing a file with 423 pages of information on Howard Zinn's life and activities
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Died 2010-01-27.
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Is a documentary movie based on A People's History of the United States and inspired by the lives of ordinary people who fought back against oppressive conditions over the course of the history of the United States
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“Powinieneś przeczytać historię USA Howarda Zinna. Ta książka cię powali.– Jest lepszy niż Chomsky? Podobał ci się?– Zdumiewacie mnie ludzie. Wywalacie kupę kasy na książki, ale – kurwa – nie te.– A które są, kurwa, „te”?– Te, od których włosy się jeżą.”
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“Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.”
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2008· 2 entries
The Zinn Education Project was launched to support educators using A People's History of the United States as a source for middle and high school history
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Howard Zinn was selected as a special senior advisor to Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, the president of the United Nations General Assembly's 63rd session
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2007· 1 entry
Published a version of it for younger readers, A Young People's History of the United States
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2006· 2 entries
Zinn received the Haven's Center Award for Lifetime Contribution to Critical Scholarship in Madison, Wisconsin
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That the book "routinely sells more than 100,000 copies a year
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2005· 2 entries
Awarded honorary degree from Spelman College (2005).
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Forty-one years after he was fired from Spelman, Zinn returned to the college, where he was given an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters
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2004· 1 entry
Zinn published Voices of a People's History of the United States with Anthony Arnove
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2003· 1 entry
Zinn was awarded the Prix des Amis du Monde diplomatique for the French version of his seminal work, Une histoire populaire des Etats-Unis
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2002· 1 entry
“My Grades Will Not Be Instruments of War”
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1998· 1 entry
Awarded Eugene V. Debs Award (1998).
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1995· 1 entry
Laid out the case against targeting civilians with aerial bombing
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1991· 2 entries
Awarded Thomas Merton Award (1991).
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The Thomas Merton Center for Peace and Social Justice in Pittsburgh awarded Zinn the Thomas Merton Award for his activism and work on national and international issues that transform our world
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1989· 1 entry
Griswold admitted there had been no national security damage resulting from publication
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1980· 2 entries
“s History of the United States in 1980. In 2007, he published a version of it for younger readers, A Young People”
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It has been used as an alternative to standard textbooks in many college history courses, and it is one of the most widely known examples of critical pedagogy
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1979· 1 entry
Defended the right of the school's clerical workers to strike and were threatened with dismissal after refusing to cross a picket line
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1971· 1 entry
This four-volume set became the "Senator Gravel Edition", which studies from Cornell University and the Annenberg Center for Communication have labeled as the most complete edition of the Pentagon Papers to be published
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1967· 1 entry
Based on his articles in Commonweal, The Nation, and Ramparts
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1966· 1 entry
Zinn returned to Royan, after which he gave his fullest account of that research in his book, The Politics of History
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1964· 4 entries
Just as civil rights activists were beginning to arrive in Mississippi, CORE activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner were en route to investigate the burning of Mount Zion Methodist Church in Neshob
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Accepted a position at Boston University (BU) after writing two books and participating in the Civil Rights Movement in the South
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Zinn, with the SNCC, began developing an educational program so that the 200 volunteer SNCC civil rights workers in the South, many of whom left college to pursue civil rights work full time, could continue with their ci
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Beacon Press published his book SNCC: The New Abolitionists
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1963· 1 entry
Zinn was fired from Spelman for insubordination
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1949· 1 entry
The FBI first opened a domestic security investigation on Zinn (FBI File # 100-360217), based on Zinn's activities in what the agency considered to be communist front groups, such as the American Labor Party, and informa
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1940· 1 entry
Zinn took the Civil Service exam and became an apprentice shipfitter in the New York Navy Yard at the age of 18
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1922· 1 entry
Born 1922-08-24.
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