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SNCC: The New Abolitionists

By Howard Zinn. Book - Nonfiction. Beacon Press, 1964; South End Press, 2002; Haymarket Books, 2013.
A detailed history of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

Vietnam: The Logic of Withdrawal

By Howard Zinn. Book - Essays. Beacon Press, 1967; South End Press, 2002; Haymarket Books, 2013.
Zinn's compelling case against the Vietnam War.

The Politics of History

By Howard Zinn. Book - Essays. Beacon Press, 1971; University of Illinois Press, 1990.
A series of case studies and thought-provoking essays arguing for a radical approach to history.

Justice in Everyday Life: The Way It Really Works

Edited by Howard Zinn. Book - Essays. Morrow Books, 1974; Beacon Press, 1977; South End Press, 2002; Haymarket Books, 2013.
A collection of essays by dozens of writers on topics of the police, courts, prison, housing, work, health, schools, and fighting back.

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Failure to Quit: Reflections of an Optimistic Historian

By Howard Zinn. Book - Essays. Common Courage Press, 1993; South End Press, 1999; Haymarket Books, 2013.
A selection of Howard Zinn's most popular and accessible essays on history and politics.

Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor’s Last Century

By Howard Zinn, Robin D. G. Kelley, and Dana Frank. Book - Nonfiction. Beacon Press. 2001.
Collection of three essays about stikes by miners, salespeople, and musicians.

Emma

By Howard Zinn. Book - Play. South End Press, 2002; Haymarket Books, 2013.
Howard Zinn dramatizes the life of Emma Goldman, the anarchist, feminist, and free-spirited thinker who was exiled from the U.S. in 1919.

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.

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.

Source or Publisher: Beacon Press

SNCC: The New Abolitionists

Vietnam: The Logic of Withdrawal

The Politics of History

Justice in Everyday Life: The Way It Really Works

Failure to Quit: Reflections of an Optimistic Historian

Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor’s Last Century

Emma

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

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