New Release: Part Two of “Howard Zinn: A People’s History of the United States”
Part two of a three-part the Howard Zinn documentary, Howard Zinn: A People’s History of the United States, was released in France.
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Category: About Howard Zinn
New Biography of Howard Zinn Now Available
On August 4, 2026, Dave Zirin‘s biography of Howard Zinn, The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn, was released by Penguin Random House. Zirin is a journalist for The Nation Magazine and is the author of A People’s History of Sports in the United States, which was a part of the Zinn-curated People’s History series at The New Press.
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2025 Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: John Shattuck
John Shattuck, international legal scholar, diplomat, human rights leader, was the keynote speaker for the 2025 Howard Zinn Lecture Series at Boston University.
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The Legacy of Howard Zinn’s Radical 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."
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Archive Notes: Howard Zinn’s Warmth, Compassion, and Humanizing of History
"In 2022–2023, I had the opportunity to spend three full weeks going through the Howard Zinn Papers housed at New York University’s Tamiment Library. . . . Being able to focus intensely on his correspondence crystallized how Zinn’s warmth, humor, and compassion draws in people who run across many segments of the population, and how he was a connector of people; he connected people to have the opportunities to tell their stories with those who could amplify them."
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‘Hope and Resistance’: Interview and Performances on Democracy Now!
In a special July 4th edition of Democracy Now! hosted by Amy Goodman, the show featured an interview with co-editors Anthony Arnove and Haley Pressin plus live clips of readings from Voices of a People’s History of the United States in the 21st Century.
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Vincent Harding Tribute to Howard Zinn
Vincent Harding pays tribute to Howard Zinn at the SNCC 50th Anniversary Convening, April 17, 2010.
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Howard Zinn Revisited
Chris Fogler first heard Howard Zinn speak when she was a student at Saint Peter’s University in the late 1960s and where she now teaches. For the university's 150th anniversary, they printed a story in the PAVAN Magazine about Fogler's memories of the lessons Zinn taught.
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The Howard Zinn Book Fair Returns in 2022
The Howard Zinn Book Fair returns as a multi-site event.
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New Book about A People’s History in the Classroom
Available in October 2021 is a new book by Robert Cohen and Sonia E. Murrow titled Rethinking America's Past: Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States in the Classroom and Beyond.
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Read, Learn, & Make History
Check out the Howard Zinn Digital Collection to search Zinn’s bibliography by books, articles, audio, video, and more.
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