In August 2014, a new version of HowardZinn.org launched to provide greater online access to articles, interviews, and other works by and about Howard Zinn.
On April 24, 2014, a daylong symposium was held at New York University (NYU) to celebrate the donation of Zinn’s personal papers to NYU’s Tamiment Library by his children, Myla Kabat-Zinn and Jeff Zinn. Included in the donation are Zinn’s personal correspondences, school and military records, FBI files, datebooks, biographical articles, and interviews.
Panels held throughout the day highlighted different aspects of Zinn’s life and work, and included the following participants…
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.
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.
The Zinn Education Project is collecting personal remembrances from Zinn’s students at Spelman College in Atlanta and Boston University. The first stories were posted in August of 2013 in honor of what would have been Howard Zinn's 91st birthday.
By Robert Cohen and Sonia Murrow • The Nation • August 5, 2013
Mitch Daniels’s covert war on Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States.
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.”
"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."
A new book is available that engage the various complexities and tensions present throughout Howard Zinn’s work and subject them to a 21st century assessment.
News
New HowardZinn.org Website Launches
Posted: August 8, 2014 by Howard Zinn Website
Category: News
Zinn Papers Dedicated at NYU Symposium
Posted: May 30, 2014 by Howard Zinn Website
Category: News Tags: Education, From the Archives: Tamiment Library, Zinn Education Project
Bashing Howard Zinn: A Critical Look at One of the Critics
Posted: November 18, 2013 by Howard Zinn Website
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.
Category: Articles & Interviews, Articles about Howard Zinn, In the News, News Tags: A People's History of the United States, In the News, Zinn Education Project
‘Howard Zinn Read-In’ Celebrates Power of ‘Dangerous’ Education
Posted: November 5, 2013 by Howard Zinn Website
Former Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels' attempt to censor Zinn's classic 'A People's History' backfires, sparks ongoing interest in late historian's work.
Category: Articles about Howard Zinn, In the News, News Tags: A People's History of the United States, Activism, Common Dreams, In the News
Howard Zinn, Our Favorite Teacher: Memories from Former Students
Posted: August 20, 2013 by Howard Zinn Website
Category: News Tags: Boston University, Education, Spelman College, Zinn Education Project
Who’s Afraid of Radical History?
Posted: August 5, 2013 by Howard Zinn Website
Mitch Daniels’s covert war on Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States.
Category: News Tags: Articles about Howard Zinn, The Nation
“Indiana’s Anti-Howard Zinn
Witch-hunt”
Posted: July 19, 2013 by Howard Zinn Website
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.”
Category: Articles & Interviews, Articles about Howard Zinn, In the News, News Tags: A People's History of the United States, Education, In the News, Zinn Education Project
Mitch Daniels Attempted to Ban Zinn’s “People’s History” as Governor
Posted: July 17, 2013 by Howard Zinn Website
Category: Articles about Howard Zinn, In the News, News Tags: A People's History of the United States, Book Ban, In the News
Agitation with a Smile: New Book on Howard Zinn’s Legacy and Activism
Posted: June 1, 2013 by Howard Zinn Website
Category: Articles & Interviews, Articles about Howard Zinn, News Tags: Education
The Howard Zinn Archives at Alternative Radio
Posted: March 16, 2013 by Howard Zinn Website
Category: Audio & Video, Audio and Video with Howard Zinn, Audio With Howard Zinn, News