Article. By Howard Zinn. 1976. Essay urging readers to rethink Memorial Day, who we honor, and what resources we prioritize.

To commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, HarperCollins published a special edition of A People's History of the United States as part of their American Classics series.

Interview with Howard Zinn. Clip from Howard Zinn: You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train. First Run Features. 2004. On April 20, 1914, the Colorado National Guard attacked a tent colony of 1,200 stri...

Boston University refused to approve negotiated contract, so the faculty union called a strike, with Howard Zinn as co-chair of strike committee. Other staff and librarians also went on strike that sp...

HowardZinn.org will share a booth with the SNCC Legacy Project, Colored Conventions Project, and nine other groups under the banner of “People’s History in the Digital Age” at the National Council for...

Book — Non-fiction. By Dave Zirin. 2026. 400 pages. A biography of iconic radical historian Howard Zinn, examining his life and work as a progressive icon and thought leader through the story of the t...

“There are certain historical moments when learning is more compressed and intense than others,” wrote Howard Zinn, a month after 9/11. The historian was writing in a moment of tremendous, escalati…

In this three-minute clip, Zinn counters Trump’s assertion that teaching people’s history tries “to make students ashamed of their own history.” To the contrary. Watch and share.

A sampling of Howard Zinn's essays, quotes, trial testimonies, and correspondence related to prisons and prisoners.

Online classes for educators on teaching the Black Freedom Struggle. People's historians interviewed by classroom teachers and teacher educators.

Dates for 2025–2026 performances for Voices of a People’s History have been announced with events planned in Edinburgh and New York.

On August 4, 2025, the podcast Borrowed and Returned aired an episode called “The Legacy of Howard Zinn’s Radical History.” From the introduction: "When Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United ...

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By Howard Zinn, from The Zinn Reader Writing a column to appear in the July 4, 1975, issue of the Boston Globe, I wanted to break away from the traditional celebrations of Independence Day, in which t...

The National Guard fired on striking miners and their families in Ludlow, Colorado.

Boston University refused to approve negotiated contract, so the faculty union called a strike, with Howard Zinn as co-chair of strike committee. Other staff and librarians also went on strike that sp...

“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we c...

Op-ed by Howard Zinn. Clip from “What’s Happening Mr. Silver?” WGBH Boston. 1968. Originally broadcast on “What’s Happening Mr. Silver?” on WGBH Boston, Howard Zinn lauds Eartha Kitt and Dr. Benjamin ...

Howard Zinn interviewed by David Barsamian. Excerpt from The Future of History. December 7 is the birthday of Howard Zinn’s longtime friend Noam Chomsky. In celebration, we share this interview with ...

By Howard Zinn. Excerpt from A People’s History of the United States Chapter 19 highlight Native American resistance during the 1960s and 70s. As Howard Zinn states, “Never in American history had mor...