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The 100 Best Bostonians of All Time

Boston Magazine published the "The 100 Best Bostonians of All Time" which includes Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, W. E. B. DuBois, Helen Keller, Malcolm X, Phillis Wheatley and other people's history makers.

2015 Howard Zinn Freedom to Write Award

PEN New England selected Ferguson activists and bloggers Johnetta Elzie and DeRay McKesson to receive the 2015 Howard Zinn Freedom to Write Award. Formerly named the "Thomas Paine Award," the Freedom to Write Award was re-named in honor of Howard Zinn.

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 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.”

Academic Freedom 101 | Illustration by Gary Varvel | The Indianpolis Star

Mitch Daniels Attempted to Ban Zinn’s “People’s History” as Governor

"The Associated Press published an article based on e-mail records it obtained under Indiana's open records laws. Those e-mail records showed Daniels, while governor of Indiana, asking that no public universities teach the work of Howard Zinn."

Banned Book Cover: A People's History of the United States

A People’s History Banned in Tucson Schools

"Last week, the Tucson Unified School District eliminated a popular Mexican American Studies program in local high schools that, in a short period of time, had done a lot of good."

Film Even the Rain/Tambien La Lluvia Dedicated to Howard Zinn

The writer and film maker Paul Laverty was asked recently why he and director Icíar Bollaín dedicated his new film "Even the Rain (Tambien La Lluvia)," set in Bolivia and starring Gael Garcia Bernal, to the historian Howard Zinn.

Review of The People Speak on BlogCritics

"The People Speak represents an opportunity very few of us are given. Not only does it present aspects of history not everybody is familiar with, it brings it to life and makes it real. For too many people history has been confined to the pages of dusty books and boring classrooms - this represents a chance to see and hear it brought alive. We may not be able to travel back in time, but this DVD brings the past to us.”

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The 100 Best Bostonians of All Time

2015 Howard Zinn Freedom to Write Award

Banned Books of Guantánamo: ‘A People’s History of the United States’ by Howard Zinn

Bashing Howard Zinn: A Critical Look at One of the Critics

‘Howard Zinn Read-In’ Celebrates Power of ‘Dangerous’ Education

“Indiana’s Anti-Howard Zinn
Witch-hunt”

Mitch Daniels Attempted to Ban Zinn’s “People’s History” as Governor

A People’s History Banned in Tucson Schools

Film Even the Rain/Tambien La Lluvia Dedicated to Howard Zinn

Review of The People Speak on BlogCritics

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