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Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922–January 27, 2010) was a historian, author, professor, playwright, and activist. His life’s work focused on a wide range of issues including race, class, war, and history, and touched the lives of countless people. Zinn grew up in Brooklyn in a working-class, immigrant household. At 18 he became a shipyard worker ...
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1991: The Thomas Merton AwardFor work on national and...
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Rushing up to an onlooker he shouted, “Is this a private...
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Howard Zinn, Our Favorite Teacher ... of education via the...
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Terms: Howard Zinn Revocable Trust and HowardZinn.org grants...
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Emma — In this play, historian and playwright Howard Zinn...
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Howard Zinn introducing organizer Ella Baker. Southern...
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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 25 September 2024. American historian and socialist thinker (1922–2010) Howard Zinn Zinn in 2009 Born (1922-08-24) August 24, 1922 New York City, New York, U.S. Died January 27, 2010 (2010-01-27) (aged 87) Santa Monica, California, U.S. Education New York University (BA) Columbia University (MA, PhD ...
Howard Zinn 1922 – 2010. Howard Zinn. Photo by Roslyn Zinn. Howard Zinn grew up in Brooklyn in a working-class, immigrant household. At the age of 18 he became a shipyard worker; three years later, he joined the Air Force. He flew bomber missions during World War II, after which he returned to Brooklyn, got married, and occupied a basement ...
Nov 29, 2012 · Howard Zinn (1922-2010) grew up amidst poverty in Brooklyn, New York, and became the family bookworm. He read Karl Marx as a teen and by 1937 felt indignation at the glaring gap between wealth and ...
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- People's Historian
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Events in the late 1950s and early 1960s reinforced Zinn's disillusionment with American liberalism. In 1956 he moved to Atlanta, GA, to accept a post as chairman of the department of history and social science at Spelman College, an African-American women's school. During the seven years he taught there, Zinn saw and participated in some of the ke...
Zinn joined Boston University's Government Department in 1964 and remained a professor of political science there the rest of his career. He became well known in New Left circles for his opposition to United States military involvement in Vietnam. In his book Vietnam: The Logic of Withdrawal(1967), he made a powerful case for reversing the Lyndon J...
When critics charged that the New Left historians' work was deficient because radical scholars had not produced a full-scale synthesis of American history, Zinn set to work to prove them wrong. Zinn's A People's History of the United States (1980), surveyed all of American history from the point of view of the working classes and minority groups. H...
A brief sketch of Zinn's career appears in Nelson Lichtenstein, editor, Political Profiles: The Johnson Years (1976). See also the references cited in the text for Zinn's "personal" approach to current history. Reviews of his major books are in the New York Times Book Review(June 4, 1967; February 16, 1969; September 20, 1970; March 2, 1980; July 2...
Jan 10, 2001 · Howard Zinn. Howard Zinn grew up in a working-class family in Brooklyn where he became a shipyard laborer and later, in World War Two, an Air Force bombardier. After the war, he attended Columbia University under the GI Bill and earned his Ph.D. in history. He has taught at Spelman College in Atlanta and later at Boston University.
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Dec 11, 2009 · Howard Zinn grew up in the immigrant slums of Brooklyn where he worked in shipyards in his late teens. He saw combat duty as an air force bombardier in World War II, and afterward received his ...
