By Howard Zinn. Z Magazine, 1990; excerpt from
Failure to Quit.
This essay, written for
Z Magazine in 1990, and reprinted in my book
Failure to Quit, was inspired (if you are willing to call this an inspired piece) by my students of the Eighties. I was teaching a spring and fall lecture course with four hundred students in each course (and yet with lots of discussion). I looked hard, listened closely, but did not find the apathy, the conservatism, the disregard for the plight of others, that everybody (right and left) was reporting about "the me generation."
Haymarket Books
Disobedience and Democracy: Nine Fallacies on Law and Order
By Howard Zinn. Book - Essays. Vintage and Random House, 1968; South End Press, 2002; Haymarket Books, 2013.Written in response to Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas' Concern Dissent and Civil Disobedience, Zinn lays out a clear and dynamic case for civil disobedience and protest, and challenges the dominant arguments against forms of protest that challenge the status quo.
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.
Failure to Quit
By Howard Zinn. Z Magazine, 1990; excerpt from Failure to Quit.This essay, written for Z Magazine in 1990, and reprinted in my book Failure to Quit, was inspired (if you are willing to call this an inspired piece) by my students of the Eighties. I was teaching a spring and fall lecture course with four hundred students in each course (and yet with lots of discussion). I looked hard, listened closely, but did not find the apathy, the conservatism, the disregard for the plight of others, that everybody (right and left) was reporting about "the me generation."
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.
Howard Zinn Speaks: Collected Speeches 1963-2009
By Howard Zinn. Book - Non-fiction. Haymarket Books. 2012.Howard Zinn has illuminated our history like no other U.S. historian. This collection of his speeches on protest movements, racism, war, and topics vital to our democracy will be an invaluable resource for the new generation of students who continue to discover his work, as well as the millions of people who Howard moved and informed in his lifetime.
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.
Marx in Soho: A Play on History
By Howard Zinn. Book - Play. South End Press, 1999; Haymarket Books, 2013.Zinn's one-person play abotu Karl Marx.
Marx in Soho: A Play on History (Audio)
Performed by Brian Jones. Haymarket Books. 2010.Recorded performance of Howard Zinn's play Marx in Soho.
Postwar America: 1945–1971
By Howard Zinn. Book - Essays. Bobbs-Merrill, 1973; South End Press, 2002; Haymarket Books, 2013.The postwar boom in the U.S. brought about massive changes in U.S. society and culture. In this accessible volume, historian Howard Zinn offers a view from below on these vital years in American history.
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.