Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922–January 27, 2010) was a historian, author, professor, playwright, and activist.
A new biography of Howard Zinn will be released in the summer of 2026 called The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn. Written by The Nation Magazine journalist Dave Zirin, it will be published by Penguin Random House.
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.
