Howard Zinn

Howard Zinn was an American historian, playwright, and social activist. He was a political science professor at Boston University. Zinn wrote more than twenty books, including his best-selling and influential A People's History of the United States.

Howard Zinn: How FDR Forestalled a Second American Revolution

From a Series of 2007 Conversations with Ray Suarez

October 25, 2019 By Howard Zinn

Howard Zinn on Henry David Thoreau and When to Resist an Immoral State

“The law will never make men free; it is men who make the law free.”

July 12, 2017 By Howard Zinn

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