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Academic Freedom 101 | Illustration by Gary Varvel | The Indianpolis Star

Mitch Daniels Attempted to Ban Zinn’s “People’s History” as Governor

"The Associated Press published an article based on e-mail records it obtained under Indiana's open records laws. Those e-mail records showed Daniels, while governor of Indiana, asking that no public universities teach the work of Howard Zinn."

‘Howard Zinn Read-In’ Celebrates Power of ‘Dangerous’ Education

By Andrea Germano
Former Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels' attempt to censor Zinn's classic 'A People's History' backfires, sparks ongoing interest in late historian's work.

Who’s Afraid of Radical History?

By Robert Cohen and Sonia Murrow • The Nation • August 5, 2013
Mitch Daniels’s covert war on Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States.

Zinn at the 2008 NCSS | Photo by Steve Puppe/NCSS.

“Indiana’s Anti-Howard Zinn
Witch-hunt”

By Bill Bigelow • Common Dreams • July 18, 2013
Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States, one of the country’s most widely read history books, died on January 27, 2010. Shortly after, then-Governor of Indiana Mitch Daniels got on his computer and fired off an email to the state’s top education officials: “This terrible anti-American academic has finally passed away.”

Purdue's Howard Zinn Memorial Research Award | HowardZinn.org

Zinn Memorial Research Award at Purdue University

Purdue University faculty has created a Howard Zinn Memorial Research Award Fund in American Studies to "support interdisciplinary American Studies research focusing on the ways in which forms of social, cultural, intellectual, and technoscientific expression circulate among, between, and beyond the geographical borders of the United States."

Arkansas students want Zinn Books | HowardZinn.org

Arkansas Bill Attempts to Ban Howard Zinn Books

On March 1, 2017, Arkansas Representative Kim Hendren (R) introduced Bill HB1834 to prohibit any publicly supported schools in Arkansas “from including in its curriculum or course materials any books or other material authored by or concerning Howard Zinn.”

Banned Books Week: Celebrate the Power of Learning People’s History

With Banned Book Week (Sept. 21-28) in full swing, we call attention to the recent —s ometimes successful — attempts to ban Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States.

Bashing Howard Zinn: A Critical Look at One of the Critics

Alison Kysia • Zinn Education Project • November 18, 2013
Since the death of historian Howard Zinn in 2010, a number of scholars and politicians have targeted Zinn’s work in an effort to undermine his influence among educators.

Howard Zinn Read-In, Nov. 5

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In honor of historian Howard Zinn and all the ordinary people he celebrated in his work, on Tuesday November 5, scholars and activists from across the country will take part in a Read-in of Zinn’s work on the campus of Purdue University and on campuses across the nation.…

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Mitch Daniels Attempted to Ban Zinn’s “People’s History” as Governor

‘Howard Zinn Read-In’ Celebrates Power of ‘Dangerous’ Education

Who’s Afraid of Radical History?

“Indiana’s Anti-Howard Zinn
Witch-hunt”

Zinn Memorial Research Award at Purdue University

Arkansas Bill Attempts to Ban Howard Zinn Books

Banned Books Week: Celebrate the Power of Learning People’s History

Bashing Howard Zinn: A Critical Look at One of the Critics

Howard Zinn Read-In, Nov. 5

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