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.
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.
On Nov. 25, 1986, 60 people—including Amy Carter and Abbie Hoffman—were arraigned on charges of disorderly conduct stemming from a sit-in to block CIA campus recruiting at University of Massachusetts-Amherst, an act of protest of the CIA’s role in Central America.…
Nov. 22 marks the birthday of Staughton Lynd, longtime friend of Howard Zinn. They both taught at Spelman College and can be described as long-distance runners for justice.
"I have admired [Lynd] enormously ever since I first met him,” Zinn wrote shortly before his death, because he is an “exemplar of strength and gentleness in the quest for a better world." Read more about Lynd in this tribute by Andy Piascik.
Excerpts
Two Rebel Historians: Thucydides, Howard Zinn and Telling Truth for Social Good
Posted: August 21, 2018 by Howard Zinn Website
Category: About Howard Zinn, Excerpts, News
Howard Zinn’s Southern Diary: Excerpts
Posted: August 21, 2018 by Howard Zinn Website
Category: About Howard Zinn, Excerpts, News
Zinn Testifies at the Trial of CIA Protesters
Posted: November 25, 2016 by Howard Zinn Website
On Nov. 25, 1986, 60 people—including Amy Carter and Abbie Hoffman—were arraigned on charges of disorderly conduct stemming from a sit-in to block CIA campus recruiting at University of Massachusetts-Amherst, an act of protest of the CIA’s role in Central America.…
Category: Articles about Howard Zinn, Excerpts Tags: Civil Disobedience, Testimony
Staughton Lynd — “Long Distance Runner for Justice”
Posted: November 22, 2016 by Howard Zinn Website
Category: Excerpts, News Tags: Spelman College, Staughton Lynd