Howard Zinn | |
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.jpg) Zinn in 2009 | |
| Born | August 24, 1922 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | January 27, 2010 (aged 87) Santa Monica, California, U.S. |
| Education | New York University (BA) Columbia University (MA, PhD) |
| Occupation(s) | Historian, educator, author, playwright |
| Spouse |
Roslyn Shechter
(m. 1944; died 2008) |
| Children | 2, including Jeff |
| Military career | |
| Allegiance | United States |
| Service | U.S. Army Air Forces |
| Years of service | 1941–1945 |
| Rank | Lieutenant |
| Academic background | |
| Thesis | Fiorello LaGuardia in Congress (1958) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Spelman College Boston University |
| Main interests | Civil rights, war and peace |
| This article is part of a series on |
| Socialism in the United States |
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Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922 – January 27, 2010)[1] was an American historian, playwright, philosopher, socialist intellectual and World War II veteran. He was chair of the history and social sciences department at Spelman College,[2] and a political science professor at Boston University. Zinn wrote more than 20 books, including his best-selling and influential A People's History of the United States in 1980. In 2007, he published a version of it for younger readers, A Young People's History of the United States.[3]
Zinn described himself as "something of an anarchist, something of a socialist. Maybe a democratic socialist."[4][5] He wrote extensively about the civil rights movement, the anti-war movement and labor history of the United States. His memoir, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train (Beacon Press, 1994), was also the title of a 2004 documentary about Zinn's life and work. Zinn died of a heart attack in 2010, at the age of 87.[6]
- ^ "HowardZinn.org". HowardZinn.org. Retrieved March 13, 2022.
- ^ Zinn, Howard (1994). You can't be neutral on a moving train : a personal history of our times. Boston. ISBN 9780807071274. OCLC 50704670.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Powell, Michael (January 28, 2010). "Howard Zinn, Historian, Is Dead at 87". The New York Times. Retrieved January 28, 2010.
- ^ Glavin, Paul; Morse, Chuck (Spring 2003). "War is the Health of the State: An Interview with Howard Zinn". Perspectives on Anarchist Theory. 7 (1). Archived from the original on February 1, 2010.
- ^ Howard Zinn on Democratic Socialism on YouTube
- ^ Italie, Hillel (January 27, 2010). "Howard Zinn Dead, Author Of 'People's History Of The United States' Died At 87". The Huffington Post. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016.