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"There is a tendency to think that what we see in the present moment will continue. We forget how often we have been astonished by the sudden crumbling of institutions, by extraordinary changes in people's thoughts, by unexpected eruptions of rebellion against tyrannies, by the quick collapse of systems of power that seemed invincible." "What leaps out from the history of the past hundred years is its utter unpredictability...." Howard Zinn, Catholic New Times, Nov. 7, 2004 Images from Biography Resource Center (l) and An Interview with Howard Zinn (r)

Biographies of Howard Zinn, activist and historian

• Encyclopedia of World Biography
• Contemporary Authors Online (Howard Zinn as an author)
• Brief biographies

Selected Books by Howard Zinn at the Boyden Library

• Declarations of independence : cross-examining American ideology : 320.50973 Z78d
• A people's history of the United States : 1492-present : 973 Z78p 1995
• The politics of history : 901 Z78p
• The Southern mystique : 323.4 Z78so
• The Zinn reader : 973 Z78r

Other Selected Works by Howard Zinn
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• You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times (autobiography), Beacon Press (Boston , MA), 1994.
• SNCC: The New Abolitionists, Beacon Press (Boston , MA), 1964, published with new introduction, 2002.
• Vietnam : The Logic of Withdrawal, Beacon Press (Boston , MA), 1967, published with new introduction, South End Press (Cambridge , MA), 2002.
• Disobedience and Democracy: Nine Fallacies on Law and Order, Random House (New York , NY), 1968, published with new introduction, South End Press (Cambridge , MA), 2002.
• Post-War America , Bobbs-Merrill (Indianapolis , IN), 1973, published as Postwar America , 1945-1971, South End Press (Cambridge , MA), 2002.
• Failure to Quit: Reflections of an Optimistic Historian, Common Courage Press (Monroe , ME), 1993, published with new afterword, South End Press (Cambridge , MA), 2002.
• The Future of History: Interviews with David Barsamian, Common Courage Press (Monroe , ME), 1999.
• Howard Zinn on History, Seven Stories Press (New York , NY), 2001.
• Howard Zinn on War and Other Means and Ends, Seven Stories Press (New York , NY), 2001.
• (With Dana Frank and Robin D.G. Kelley) Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century, Beacon Press (Boston , MA), 2001.
• Terrorism and War, Seven Stories Press (New York , NY), 2002.
• Artists in Times of War, Seven Stories Press (New York , NY), 2003.
• Passionate Declarations: Essays on War and Justice, Perennial (New York , NY), 2003.
• The Twentieth Century: A People's History, Perennial (New York , NY), 2003.
• (Editor) The People Speak: American Voices, Some Famous, Some Little Known: Dramatic Readings Celebrating the Enduring Spirit of Dissent, Perennial (New York , NY), 2004.
• (With Donaldo Macedo) Howard Zinn on Democratic Education, Paradigm Publishers (Boulder , CO), 2005.
• Just War, with foreword by Gino Strada and photographs by Moises Saman, Charta (Milan , Italy), 2005.
• History Matters: Conversations on History and Politics, with foreword by Arundhati Roy, HarperPerennial (New York , NY), 2006.
• A Power Governments Cannot Suppress, City Lights (San Francisco , CA), 2006.
• Emma (musical play), first produced in New York , NY , 1976, produced in London , England , 1987 , published as Emma: A Play in Two Acts about Emma Goldman, American Anarchist, South End Press (Cambridge , MA), 2002.
• Daughter of Venus (play), first produced in New York , NY , at Theatre for New City , 1985.
• Marx in Soho: A Play on History, South End Press (Cambridge , MA), 1999.

Selected Articles by Howard Zinn

• Are we politicians or citizens? (withdrawal from Iraq)
• How to get out of Iraq
• Why war fails (Iraq war)
• No human being is illegal (immigrants)
• What do we do now? (U.S. policy in Iraq)
• A just cause, not a just war (Afghanistan)
• Born yesterday (Sept. 11)
• The massacres of history
• A people's constitution: some truths are not self-evident (on slavery, civil rights)
• Reflections on Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 55 years later
• The rocker and the teacher (historian Howard Zinn interviews Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder)
• Additional articles available in Academic Search Premier and General OneFile

Selected Articles about and Interviews with Howard Zinn

• An interview with Howard Zinn
• On Howard Zinn
• The politics of war (interview)
• Interview: Howard Zinn discusses what he sees as major omissions in American history (broadcast transcript)
• You can't be neutral on a moving train (review of the autobiography)
• Democracy By Action - Not Just Votes
• Fox Nixes Zinn Flick - A radical retelling of US history has proved a tough sell in Hollywood
• Additional articles about Howard Zinn available in Biography Resource Center

Related Internet Sites

• Howard Zinn's Website (biography, interviews, essays, audio & video, bibliography, and more)
• Howard Zinn Audio and Video
• Internet Archive (search for "all media types" for audio and video of Howard Zinn)
• Radical History: Conversation with Howard Zinn (U. of California)
• Howard Zinn Lecture Series: "Bringing Democracy Alive" (video, Boston U.)
• "American Today and America Past" (video, U. of Houston)
• "Howard Zinn and the Power of Knowledge: How Education Leads to Positive Change" (by a Harvard graduate)
• Howard Zinn (from ZNet)
• Online Works of Howard Zinn
• The Emma Goldman Papers

Dr. Zinn Recommended

• Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo (1939) 813 T867j
  "Remains the most revolutionary, searing document against war and injustice ever written" Ron Kovic, from the introduction
  "A powerful antiwar document . . . and brilliant work of the imagination . . . that can never be forgotten" Saturday Review
  "A terrible story, remorseless, uncompromising . . .this book was a shocking and violent experience" Herald Tribune