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The Bomb

By Howard Zinn. Book - Non-fiction. Beacon Press. 2010. Foreword by Greg Ruggerio.
Zinn's personal reflections and political analysis on the WWII bombing of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Royan, and more.

The Other Civil War: Slavery and Struggle in Civil War America

By Howard Zinn. Book - Non-fiction. HarperCollins. 2011. Foreword by James Loewen.
Drawn from Howard Zinn's New York Times bestseller A People’s History of the United States, this set of essays recounts the history of American labor, free and not free, in the years leading up to and during the Civil War.

Howard Zinn on Race

By Howard Zinn. Seven Stories. 2011. Introduction by Cornel West.
A collection of Howard Zinn’s choice of the shorter writings and speeches that best reflect his views on America’s most taboo topic. In clear, compassionate, and present prose, Zinn gives us his thoughts on the Abolitionists, the march from Selma to Montgomery, John F. Kennedy, picketing, sit-ins, and, finally, the message he wanted to send to New York University students about race in a speech he delivered during the last week of his life.

The Indispensable Zinn: The Essential Writings of the “People’s Historian”

By Howard Zinn. Book - Non-fiction. The New Press. 2011. Foreword by Noam Chomsky, Afterword by Alice Walker with chapter introductions by Timothy Patrick McCarthy.
Designed to highlight Zinn’s most important writings, The Indispensable Zinn includes excerpts from Zinn’s bestselling A People’s History of the United States; his memoir, You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train; his inspiring writings on the civil rights movement; and the full text of his celebrated play Marx in Soho.

‘Je Ne Suis Pas Un Marxiste’

By Howard Zinn. Article. ZCommunications, June 1988; Failure to Quit, and excerpted from The Zinn Reader.
Howard Zinn writes: For a long time I thought that there were important and useful ideas in Marxist philosophy and political economy that should be protected from the self-righteous cries on the right that "Marxism is dead,” as well as from the arrogant assumptions of the commissars of various dictatorships that their monstrous regimes represented “Marxism.”

The Historic Unfulfilled Promise

By Howard Zinn. Book - Non-fiction. City Lights Publishers. 2012.
Dozens of articles Howard Zinn wrote for The Progressive magazine from 1980 to 2009.

Howard Zinn Speaks: Collected Speeches 1963-2009

By Howard Zinn. Book - Non-fiction. Haymarket Books. 2012.
Howard Zinn has illuminated our history like no other U.S. historian. This collection of his speeches on protest movements, racism, war, and topics vital to our democracy will be an invaluable resource for the new generation of students who continue to discover his work, as well as the millions of people who Howard moved and informed in his lifetime.

Some Truths Are Not Self-Evident: Essays in The Nation on Civil Rights, Vietnam, and “The War on Terror”

By Howard Zinn. Book - Essays. The Nation Company. 2014.
Collected essays that Howard Zinn wrote for The Nation with an introduction by Frances Fox Piven.

SNCC Worker Briefing, Fall 1963 | HowardZinn.org

SNCC: The Battle-Scarred Youngsters

By Howard Zinn. Article. The Nation, October 5, 1963 and republished April 23, 2009.
Howard Zinn wrote about SNCC’s participation at the 1963 March on Washington. “. . . the youngest speaker on the platform, John Lewis...lashed out in anger, not only at the Dixiecrats, but at the Kennedy Administration, which had been successful up to that moment in directing the indignation of 200,000 people at everyone but itself.”

Voices of a People's History, 10th Anniversary Edition

Voices of a People’s History of the United States

Edited by Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove. Book - Nonfiction. Seven Stories Press. 2004, 2009, 2014.
Voices of a People’s History is the companion volume to A People’s History of the United States featuring selected testimonies to living history—speeches, letters, poems, songs—left by the people who make history happen but who usually are left out of history books—women, workers, nonwhites with short introductions by Zinn.

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Type of Content: Articles and Essays

The Bomb

The Other Civil War: Slavery and Struggle in Civil War America

Howard Zinn on Race

The Indispensable Zinn: The Essential Writings of the “People’s Historian”

‘Je Ne Suis Pas Un Marxiste’

The Historic Unfulfilled Promise

Howard Zinn Speaks: Collected Speeches 1963-2009

Some Truths Are Not Self-Evident: Essays in The Nation on Civil Rights, Vietnam, and “The War on Terror”

SNCC: The Battle-Scarred Youngsters

Voices of a People’s History of the United States

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