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New Leadership at Tamiment Library: Shannon O’Neill

Shannon O'Neill was appointed Curator for the Tamiment-Wagner Collections at NYU Special Collections, where the Howard Zinn Papers are housed. O'Neill shared that "Zinn’s words guide my practice and remind me that archives are a site of violence and erasure for people of color, disabled people, poor people, queer people, and so many others within and at the intersections of marginalized identities."

Why the Feds Fear Thinkers Like Howard Zinn

By Chris Hedges • TruthDig • Aug. 2, 2010

Color photo of Zinn

On Monday I will teach my final American history class of the semester to prison inmates. We have spent five weeks reading Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States.” The class is taught in a small room in the basement of the prison.…

Howard Zinn Lecture Series: Frederick Douglass

2019 Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture: David W. Blight

David W. Blight, Sterling Professor of History at Yale University, delivered the fourth Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture at Boston University on Monday, Dec. 2. Blight's topic is "Frederick Douglass: Prose Poet of American Democracy." The event took place at Tsai Performance Center.

2019 Howard Zinn Lecture Series - Eric Foner | HowardZinn.org

2019 Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture: The Second Founding by Eric Foner

Historian Eric Foner spoke at the Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series on the topic of "The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Forged a Constitutional Revolution." The event took place at Boston University on March 19, 2019.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on the Life of Howard Zinn

In this interview with Jacobin magazine and The Dig podcast, Professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor talks about her foreword to a new edition of Zinn's autobiography, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train.

New edition: You Can't be Neutral on a Moving Train | HowardZinn.org

New Edition of Zinn Autobiography, You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train

Beacon Press has published an new edition of Howard Zinn's 1994 autobiography You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History in which Zinn tells his personal stories about 50 years of fighting for social change. This updated version includes a foreword by professor of African American Studies and author Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor. We share an excerpt from the foreword.

Two Rebel Historians: Thucydides, Howard Zinn and Telling Truth for Social Good

Abraham A. Callahan has shared his paper "Two Rebel Historians: Thucydides, Howard Zinn and Telling Truth for Social Good " with HowardZinn.org. Written as an honors thesis in the Department of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin, Callahan compares the history writing of Thucydides and Howard Zinn.

Howard Zinn’s Southern Diary | HowardZinn.org

Howard Zinn’s Southern Diary: Excerpts

The University of Georgia Press has published Howard Zinn's Southern Diary: Sit-Ins, Civil Rights, and Black Women's Student Activism by Robert Cohen with a foreword by Alice Walker. The book includes diary entries from Howard Zinn’s time teaching at Spelman College (1956-1963). Historian Robert Cohen offers a substantial overview of Zinn’s role at Spelman and other archival documents.

Banned Books of Guantánamo: ‘A People’s History of the United States’ by Howard Zinn

John Howard on why Zinn's radical history is banned from Gitmo.

Howard Zinn’s Legacies and the Future of Activism

The editors and contributors to Agitation with a Smile: Howard Zinn’s Legacies and the Future of Activism hosted a special event with a full house on the release of the paperback edition of the book. The program was held at Bluestockings Bookstore in New York on May 31, 2014.…

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Category: About Howard Zinn

New Leadership at Tamiment Library: Shannon O’Neill

Why the Feds Fear Thinkers Like Howard Zinn

2019 Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture: David W. Blight

2019 Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture: The Second Founding by Eric Foner

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on the Life of Howard Zinn

New Edition of Zinn Autobiography, You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train

Two Rebel Historians: Thucydides, Howard Zinn and Telling Truth for Social Good

Howard Zinn’s Southern Diary: Excerpts

Banned Books of Guantánamo: ‘A People’s History of the United States’ by Howard Zinn

Howard Zinn’s Legacies and the Future of Activism

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