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Howard Zinn (born December 7, 1922 in Brooklyn, New York) is an influential leftist and historian. Zinn is retired from a professorship at Boston University. He has received the Thomas Merton Award, the Eugene V. Debs Award, the Upton Sinclair Award, and the Lannan Literary Award. He lives in Auburndale, Massachusetts, U.S.

Zinn was raised in a working-class family in Brooklyn, and flew bombing missions for the United States in World War II, an experience he now points to in shaping his opposition to war. In 1956, he became a professor at Spelman College in Atlanta, a school for black women, where he soon became involved in the Civil rights movement. Zinn collaborated there with historian Staughton Lynd and mentored a young student named Alice Walker. When he was fired in 1963 for insubordination related to his protest work, he moved to Boston University, where he became a leading critic of the Vietnam War. He is perhaps best known for A People's History of the United States, which presents American history through his eyes: Native Americans who he gives less than a page too, slaves who in his opinion were never freed, women who he calls the "immediately oppressed", blacks, Populists who are nearly extinct as a political ideology, etc. His autobiography is You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train.

A reference to A People's History was made in the movie Good Will Hunting; Matt Damon grew up next door to Zinn. Another pop culture reference to the book, which has become a bestseller, was in a Columbus Day episode of the TV show The Sopranos. Zinn, together with Noam Chomsky is one of the most controversial icons of the radical left in the U.S.

Published Works

Laguardia in Congress (1959) ISBN 0837164346, ISBN 0-393-00488-0
The Southern Mystique (1962) ISBN 0896086801
SNCC: The New Abolitionists (1964) ISBN 0896086798
New Deal Thought (editor) (1965) ISBN 0872206858
Vietnam: The Logic of Withdrawal (1967) ISBN 089608681X
Disobedience and Democracy: nine fallacies on law and order (1968) ISBN 0896086755
The Politics of History (1970, 1990) ISBN 0252061225
The Pentagon Papers: Critical Essays (editor, with Noam Chomsky) (1972)
Justice in Everyday Life: the way it really works (editor) (1974) ISBN 0896086771
Justice?: eyewitness accounts (1977) ISBN 0807044792
A People's History of the United States: 1492–Present (1980, revised 1995) ISBN 0060528370
Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology (1991) ISBN 0060921080
Failure to Quit: Reflections of an Optimistic Historian (1993) ISBN 0896086763
You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times (1994) ISBN 0807071277
The Zinn Reader: writings on disobedience and democracy (1997) ISBN 1888363541
The Future of History (1999)
Marx in Soho: A Play on History (1999) ISBN 0896085937
Howard Zinn on History (2000) ISBN 1583220488
Howard Zinn on War (2000) ISBN 1583220496
Terrorism and War (2002) ISBN 1583224939
Emma: a play in two acts about Emma Goldman, American anarchist (2002) ISBN 089608664X
The Power of Nonviolence: writings by advocates of peace (2002) ISBN 0807014079
Three Strikes: miners, musicians, salesgirls, and the fighting spirit of labor's last century (2002) ISBN 080705013X
Artists in Times of War (2003) ISBN 1583226028
The Twentieth Century: a people's history (2003) ISBN 0060530340
Passionate Declarations: essays on war and justice (2003) ISBN 0060557672

Postwar America: 1945–1971 (with Jack P. Greene, 1973) ISBN 089608678X
The Sixties Experience: hard lessons about modern America (with Edward P. Morgan, 1992) ISBN 1566390141
From a Native Son: selected essays in indigenism, 1985–1995 (with Ward Churchill, 1996) ISBN 0896085538
A People's History of the Supreme Court (with Peter H. Irons, 2000) ISBN 0140292012
Silencing Political Dissent: how post-9-11 anti-terrorism measures threaten our civil liberties (with Nancy Chang, Center for Constitutional Rights, 2002) ISBN 1583224947
You Back the Attack, We'll Bomb Who We Want (with Micah Ian Wright, 2003) ISBN 1583225846
The Forging of the American Empire: from the Revolution to Vietnam, a history of US imperialism (with Sidney Lens, 2003) ISBN 0745321003
If You're Not a Terrorist…Then Stop Asking Questions! (with Micah Ian Wright, 2004) ISBN 1583226265

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 '''Howard Zinn''' (born [[December 7]], [[1922]] in [[Brooklyn, New York|Brooklyn]], New York) is an influential [[leftist]] and historian. Zinn is retired from a professorship at [[Boston University]]. He has received the [[Thomas Merton]] Award, the [[Eugene V. Debs]] Award, the [[Upton Sinclair]] Award, and the [[Lannan Literary Award]]. He lives in Auburndale, Massachusetts, U.S.
-Zinn was raised in a working-class family in Brooklyn, and flew bombing missions for the United States in [[World War II]], an experience he now points to in shaping his opposition to war. In 1956, he became a professor at [[Spelman College]] in [[Atlanta]], a school for black women, where he soon became involved in the [[Civil rights movement]]. Zinn collaborated there with historian [[Staughton Lynd]] and mentored a young student named [[Alice Walker]].  When he was fired in 1963 for insubordination related to his protest work, he moved to [[Boston University]], where he became a leading critic of the [[Vietnam War]]. He is perhaps best known for ''A People's History of the United States'', which presents American history through the eyes of those outside of the political and economic establishment: [[Native Americans]], slaves, women, blacks, [[Populists]], etc. His autobiography is ''You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train''.
+Zinn was raised in a working-class family in Brooklyn, and flew bombing missions for the United States in [[World War II]], an experience he now points to in shaping his opposition to war. In 1956, he became a professor at [[Spelman College]] in [[Atlanta]], a school for black women, where he soon became involved in the [[Civil rights movement]]. Zinn collaborated there with historian [[Staughton Lynd]] and mentored a young student named [[Alice Walker]].  When he was fired in 1963 for insubordination related to his protest work, he moved to [[Boston University]], where he became a leading critic of the [[Vietnam War]]. He is perhaps best known for ''A People's History of the United States'', which presents American history through his eyes: [[Native Americans]] who he gives less than a page too, slaves who in his opinion were never freed, women who he calls the "immediately oppressed", blacks, [[Populists]] who are nearly extinct as a political ideology, etc. His autobiography is ''You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train''.
-A reference to ''A People's History'' was made in the movie [[Good Will Hunting]]; [[Matt Damon]] grew up next door to Zinn.  Another pop culture reference to the book, which has become an underground bestseller, was in a [[Columbus Day]] episode of the TV show [[The Sopranos]].  Zinn, together with [[Noam Chomsky]] is one of the most respected [[icons]] of the [[radical left]] in the [[U.S.]]
+A reference to ''A People's History'' was made in the movie [[Good Will Hunting]]; [[Matt Damon]] grew up next door to Zinn.  Another pop culture reference to the book, which has become a bestseller, was in a [[Columbus Day]] episode of the TV show [[The Sopranos]].  Zinn, together with [[Noam Chomsky]] is one of the most controversial [[icons]] of the [[radical left]] in the [[U.S.]]
 ==Published Works==