Category: About Howard Zinn

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New Biography of Howard Zinn Coming in 2026

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.
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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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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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