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Howard Zinn
AuthorBooks · Second hand1922-2010
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's History of the United States.
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About Howard Zinn
Birth
1922
Death
2010
First book
1980
Years writing
46
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's History of the United States.
Born in Brooklyn, Howard Zinn dedicated his life to challenging official history from a social perspective.
His most famous work, A People's History of the United States, changed how entire generations understand the past.
Beyond historiography, Zinn was a prolific playwright who used theater as a tool for activism.
As a professor at Spelman College and Boston University, he inspired his students to engage in civil rights.
He described himself as a democratic socialist who firmly believed in the importance of not being neutral toward injustice.
