This year marks 100 years since the birth of the historian Howard Zinn. In 1980, Zinn published his classic work, “A People’s History of the United States.” The book would go on to sell over a million ...

The avowed communist was nonetheless about as antiwar as your average Taft Republican. Although Mary Grabar’s monograph with Regnery has not convinced me that Zinn is a leading force in American ...

This year marks 100 years since the birth of the historian Howard Zinn. In 1980, Zinn published his classic work, “A People’s History of the United States.” The book would go on to sell over a million ...

Taking his inspiration from Karl Marx's stay in London's Soho district after his exile from the Continent, Zinn's (A People's History of the United States) one-man play reads like a first-person ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Howard Zinn, the prominent historian who died in 2010, is taken into custody in 1971 during a protest against the Vietnam War.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Howard Zinn—"Howie" to friends and family—was born in Brooklyn in 1922 to Eastern European Jewish parents (his father immigrated ...

Labor Day is a good time to pay tribute to the late Howard Zinn, a rebel historian who broke with the tedious orthodoxy of “patriotic” history to tell the tale of those consigned to the bottom of the ...

This week President Trump described the work of the legendary historian Howard Zinn, who died in 2010, as “propaganda” meant to “make students ashamed of their own history.” But Zinn believed the ...

Actors including Viggo Mortensen, Peter Sarsgaard and Kelly Macdonald are gathering in New York today for a reading of “Voices of a People’s History of the United States,” based on the late historian ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Born on Aug. 24, 1922, to working-class immigrants in Brooklyn, NY, Zinn joined the Air Force during WWII at 18 years old, flying ...