Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922–January 27, 2010) was a historian, author, professor, playwright, and activist.
HowardZinn.org shared a booth with the SNCC Legacy Project, Colored Conventions Project, and nine other groups under the banner of “People’s History in the Digital Age” at the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) conference, Dec. 5–6, 2025, in Washington D.C. This booth featured digital collections of the voices and histories missing from mainstream history.
On August 4, 2025, the podcast Borrowed and Returned aired an episode called “The Legacy of Howard Zinn’s Radical History.” From the introduction: “When Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States came out in 1980, it literally rocked the boat. Instead of starting where most histories of the Americas start — on the deck of Columbus’s ship as it approached land — Howard Zinn flipped the script, focusing instead on what the people standing on the shore would have seen.”
