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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.

Three Plays: The Political Theater of Howard Zinn: Emma, Marx in Soho, Daughter of Venus

By Howard Zinn. Book - Collection. Beacon Press. 2010.
Howard Zinn has turned to drama to explore the legacy of Karl Marx and Emma Goldman and to delve into the intricacies of political and social conscience perhaps more deeply than traditional history permits.

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.

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.

You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

By Howard Zinn. Book - Autobiography. Beacon Press. 1994; 2002; updated in 2018 with a foreword by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor.
In his memoir, You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train, Zinn reflects on more than thirty years of fighting for social change, from his teenage years as a laborer in Brooklyn to teaching at Spelman College, where he emerged in the civil rights movement as a powerful voice for justice.

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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The Bomb

Three Plays: The Political Theater of Howard Zinn: Emma, Marx in Soho, Daughter of Venus

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”

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”

Voices of a People’s History of the United States

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