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Tamiment Library Appoints New Director Timothy V. Johnson

Timothy V. Johnson, head of Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives | HowardZinn.org In September 2015, Timothy V. Johnson began his new role as head of the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University where the Howard Zinn Papers are archived.

Tamiment Library describes its collections as follows,

The Tamiment’s archival collections, manuscripts, oral histories, photographs, films, videotapes, books, serials, and pamphlets document the history of labor, socialism, communism, anarchism, utopian experiments, the New Left, and the post-New Left as well as the social and cultural contexts in which these movements functioned.…

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.

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, Presente’ by Staughton Lynd

The following essay was presented at the Howard Zinn Read-In held at Purdue University on November 5, 2013. This is a condensed version of a chapter on Zinn in the book, On Doing History from the Bottom Up (Haymarket Books, 2014).…

‘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.

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.”