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The Myth of American Exceptionalism • Howard Zinn

In 2005, Howard Zinn gave a talk at MIT, offering an account of American imperialism spanning the last hundred years noting tactics that the United States uses, such as extraordinary rendition and shared the various reasons the United States goes to war. He ended on a note of hope, reminding us of all of the great social movements this country has had and will likely have again.
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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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People’s History in the Digital Age at 2025 NCSS Conference

HowardZinn.org shared a booth with the SNCC Legacy Project, Colored Conventions Project, and nine other groups under the banner of “People’s History in the Digital Age” at the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) conference, Dec. 5–6, 2025, in Washington D.C. This booth featured digital collections of the voices and histories missing from mainstream history.
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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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Fight Supremacy: The 2025 Howard Zinn Book Fair

The Howard Zinn Book Fair returns on Dec. 7, 2025 to the City College of San Francisco, Mission campus. The book fair “is an annual celebration of The People’s History, past present and future. We bring together left authors, readers, organizers and community members to debate and discuss strategies for a better world.” This year’s theme is “Fight Supremacy: Actions Against Authoritarianism."
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From the Archives: “A Few Cryptic Notes on Power and Powerlessness”

By Howard Zinn. From the Archives. Circa 1976.
From Howard Zinn's folder of "Course Syllabi: 'Introduction to Political Theory,' 1968-1987" in the "Boston University" series housed at New York University is this list of talking points on "Vulnerability of the Powerful" and "Power of the Powerlessness." Published with permission of the Howard Zinn Revocable Trust.
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The Optimism of Uncertainty

By Howard Zinn, 2004
"In this world of war and injustice, how does a person manage to stay socially engaged, committed to the struggle, and remain healthy without burning out or becoming resigned or cynical? I am totally confident not that the world will get better, but that we should not give up the game before all the cards have been played."
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Columbus and the Lens of History

For Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we feature an excerpt from Chapter One of A People’s History of the United States. Howard Zinn describes why he tells the story of Columbus’s arrival “from the viewpoint of the Arawaks” and “the inevitable taking of sides which comes from selection and emphasis in history.”
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