Truth Has a Power of Its Own: Conversations About A People’s History is a collection of never-before-published conversations with Howard Zinn, conducted by the distinguished broadcast journalist Ray Suarez in 2007. Suarez’s probing questions and Zinn’s humane (and often humorous) voice—along with his keen moral vision—shine through every one of these lively and thought-provoking conversations, showing that Zinn’s work is as relevant as ever.
Historian Eric Foner spoke at the Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series on the topic of "The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Forged a Constitutional Revolution." The event took place at Boston University on March 19, 2019.
In light of the death of the President George H. W. Bush on November 30, 2018, we share some of Howard Zinn’s writing about the Bush administration.
By David Detmer
One of Howard Zinn’s harshest, and most influential, critics is Sam Wineburg, the Margaret Jacks Professor of Education at Stanford University, and Director of the Stanford History Education Group.
In the Winter 2012-2013 issue of American Educator, Professor Wineburg published an eight-page essay entitled “Undue Certainty: Where Howard Zinn’s A People’s History Falls Short.” My new book, Zinnophobia: The Battle over History in Education, Politics, and Scholarship (Zero Books, 2018), contains a lengthy, point-by-point rebuttal to the criticisms he advances in that essay.
Beacon Press has published an new edition of Howard Zinn's 1994 autobiography You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History in which Zinn tells his personal stories about 50 years of fighting for social change. This updated version includes a foreword by professor of African American Studies and author Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor. We share an excerpt from the foreword.
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 fifth annual Howard Zinn Book Fair will take place on Sunday, Dec. 2, at the San Francisco City College Mission Campus from 10am-6pm. This year’s theme is "Fighting for the Air We Breathe."
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.
Purdue University faculty has created a Howard Zinn Memorial Research Award Fund in American Studies to "support interdisciplinary American Studies research focusing on the ways in which forms of social, cultural, intellectual, and technoscientific expression circulate among, between, and beyond the geographical borders of the United States."
Howard Zinn was the faculty adviser for the Boston University (BU) student newspaper, bu exposure. In 1977-78, the administration of John Silber demanded to review the contents of the paper before it was published and act as a censor. Zinn refused.
News
New Book Featuring Howard Zinn: Truth Has a Power of Its Own
Posted: July 14, 2019 by Howard Zinn Website
Category: Articles & Interviews, Interviews With Howard Zinn, News
2019 Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture: The Second Founding by Eric Foner
Posted: April 10, 2019 by Howard Zinn Website
Category: About Howard Zinn, News Tags: Events
“Bush seemed determined to go to war”: The Legacy of President George H. W. Bush
Posted: December 3, 2018 by Howard Zinn Website
Category: Excerpts, In the News, News
History Distorted: Sam Wineburg’s Critique of Howard Zinn
Posted: September 21, 2018 by Howard Zinn Website
Category: Articles & Interviews, Articles about Howard Zinn, In the News, News
New Edition of Zinn Autobiography, You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train
Posted: August 22, 2018 by Howard Zinn Website
Category: About Howard Zinn, News
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
2018 Howard Zinn Book Fair
Posted: August 21, 2018 by Howard Zinn Website
Category: News Tags: Events
Howard Zinn’s Southern Diary: Excerpts
Posted: August 21, 2018 by Howard Zinn Website
Category: About Howard Zinn, Excerpts, News
Zinn Memorial Research Award at Purdue University
Posted: January 12, 2018 by Howard Zinn Website
Category: News, Tributes Tags: Awards
Howard Zinn and the bu exposure
Posted: October 3, 2017 by Howard Zinn Website
Category: Articles & Interviews, Articles about Howard Zinn, News Tags: Activism, Boston University, Student Activism