Updated on October 10, 2020 by Howard Zinn Website
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.
Updated on October 10, 2020 by Howard Zinn Website
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.
Updated on October 10, 2020 by Howard Zinn Website
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."
Updated on August 27, 2020 by Howard Zinn Website
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.
Updated on October 10, 2020 by Howard Zinn Website
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."
Updated on October 10, 2020 by Howard Zinn Website
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.
Updated on October 10, 2020 by Howard Zinn Website
The Summer 2017 issue of Bostonia, the Boston University alumni magazine, features a profile of Zinn Education Project co-founder William Holtzman and the recent book drive undertaken in response to a proposed Zinn book ban in Arkansas.
Updated on October 10, 2020 by Howard Zinn Website
On March 1, 2017, Arkansas Representative Kim Hendren (R) introduced Bill HB1834 to prohibit any publicly supported schools in Arkansas “from including in its curriculum or course materials any books or other material authored by or concerning Howard Zinn.”
Updated on October 10, 2020 by Howard Zinn Website
In a Washington Post article on February 9, 2017, Fareed Zakaria compared Steve Bannon and Howard Zinn, concluding that, "In a strange way, Bannon’s dark, dystopian view of U.S. history is closest to that of Howard Zinn, a popular far-left scholar whose 'A People’s History of the United States' is a tale of the many ways in which 99 percent of Americans were crushed by the country’s all-powerful elites. In the Zinn/Bannon worldview, everyday people are simply pawns manipulated by their evil overlords." In response, two letters to the editor of the Washington Post were sent. The authors have given us permission to publish them here.
Updated on October 10, 2020 by Howard Zinn Website
The third annual Howard Zinn Book Fair was held in San Francisco on December 4, 2016. Historian Carl Mirra shared with us a description of one of the sessions at the book fair. Mirra describes the panel “Making of a Radical Historian: Howard Zinn & War” where he was one of the presenters along with Ambre Ivol and Luke Stewart.
News
New Edition of Zinn Autobiography, You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train
Updated on October 10, 2020 by Howard Zinn Website
Category: About Howard Zinn, News
Two Rebel Historians: Thucydides, Howard Zinn and Telling Truth for Social Good
Updated on October 10, 2020 by Howard Zinn Website
Category: About Howard Zinn, Excerpts, News
2018 Howard Zinn Book Fair
Updated on October 10, 2020 by Howard Zinn Website
Category: News Tags: Events
Howard Zinn’s Southern Diary: Excerpts
Updated on August 27, 2020 by Howard Zinn Website
Category: About Howard Zinn, Excerpts, News
Zinn Memorial Research Award at Purdue University
Updated on October 10, 2020 by Howard Zinn Website
Category: News, Tributes Tags: Awards
Howard Zinn and the bu exposure
Updated on October 10, 2020 by Howard Zinn Website
Category: Articles & Interviews, Articles about Howard Zinn, News Tags: Activism, Boston University, Student Activism
‘Bringing Zinn to Class’: Bostonia Features Zinn Education Project Cofounder and Arkansas Book Drive
Updated on October 10, 2020 by Howard Zinn Website
Category: Articles & Interviews, Articles about Howard Zinn, In the News, News Tags: Boston University, Education, In the News, Zinn Education Project
Arkansas Bill Attempts to Ban Howard Zinn Books
Updated on October 10, 2020 by Howard Zinn Website
Category: Articles & Interviews, Articles about Howard Zinn, In the News, News Tags: Book Ban, Zinn Education Project
Letters Refute Fareed Zakaria’s Claim: ‘Bannon’s view closest to Howard Zinn’
Updated on October 10, 2020 by Howard Zinn Website
Category: Articles & Interviews, Articles about Howard Zinn, In the News, News
2016 Howard Zinn Book Fair
Updated on October 10, 2020 by Howard Zinn Website
Category: Articles & Interviews, Articles about Howard Zinn, News Tags: Events