Howard Zinn
American historian and activist
Howard Zinn was an American historian, playwright and activist. He wrote A People’s History of the United States.
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American Born 1922 in Brooklyn, United States Died 2010
About Howard Zinn
Howard Zinn was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1922 and grew up in a working-class, immigrant household. He worked in a shipyard at 18 and later flew bomber missions in World War II. He earned a doctorate in history from Columbia. He chaired the history and social sciences department at Spelman College, where he became active in the civil rights movement. He later became a political science professor at Boston University and taught there until he retired in 1988. Zinn wrote more than 20 books, including the best-selling A People’s History of the United States, published in 1980. He wrote extensively about civil rights, the anti-war movement and US labor history. He died in 2010 at the age of 87.