Theme and Topic: Law

Albany: A Study in National Responsibility

By Howard Zinn. Report. Southern Regional Council. 1962.
Report of the investigation Zinn did on the mass civil rights demonstrations in Albany, Georgia.

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.

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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.

The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy

By Howard Zinn. Book - Essays. Seven Stories Press. 1997, updated in 2009.
A volume of essays emphasizing six areas that have been important to Zinn's work since the late 1950s—race, class, war, law, and history.

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Check out the Howard Zinn Digital Collection to search Zinn’s bibliography by books, articles, audio, video, and more.

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