PEOPLE'S HISTORY in the DIGITAL AGE: If you're at the Nat'l Council for the Social Studies conf Dec. 5-6, stop by! This booth features HowardZinn.org + 11 groups w/ digital collections of the voices & histories missing from mainstream history. Swag + photo exhibit! www.howardzinn.org/peoples-hist...

"The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn" is ready for pre-order! Researched and written by Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social, the new biography of @zinndigital.bsky.social will be released by Penguin Random House in August of 2026. www.zinnedproject.org/materials/th...

“‘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, escalating violence, and he sensed more death & destruction looming.”–James Folta lithub.com/why-you-shou...

In 2020, Brut posted a 3-minute response to Trump's #ConstitutionDay attacks on Howard Zinn -- using remarks by Zinn on the importance of being honest with young people. (Clips are from NCSS 2008 conference keynote by Zinn.) #TeachTruth Watch ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/other-h...

While Zinn’s essays on the Civil Rights Movement & war are well known, his writing about prisons & with prisoners gets less attention, reflecting the invisibility of mass incarceration in this country. Here are some of Zinn's essays, quotes, letters. www.zinnedproject.org/news/howard-...

Born #tdih Howard Zinn (1922-2010) was a historian, professor, playwright, activist. Author of APHUS, he wrote many books incl. "Vietnam: The Logic of Withdrawal" & "SNCC: The New Abolitionists." Also trial testimonies on civil disobedience history. 🧵 Read: www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ho...

“Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.” Howard Zinn was born August 24, 1922 in Brooklyn

Happy Birthday to Howard Zinn, historian, activist, and author of A People’s History of the United States. His life’s work gave voice to ordinary people, challenged power, and reminded us that real change comes from collective struggle from below.

Historian and anti-war activist Howard Zinn was born on this day in 1922.

#OtD 24 Aug 1922 radical historian and activist Howard Zinn was born to a Jewish immigrant family in Brooklyn, NYC. Author of A People's History of the United States, Zinn did much to popularise the history of ordinary people and our struggles workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e69-...

Kicking off Monday: A new series of @zinnedproject.bsky.social “Teach the Black Freedom Struggle” online classes. Events are free. ASL interpretation provided. Learn more & sign up: www.zinnedproject.org/news/teach-b... Join our email list for more news: www.howardzinn.org/contact-sign...

Check out the 2025–2026 schedule of Voices of a People’s History performances. More news & events in our newsletter. Subscribe at: www.howardzinn.org/contact-sign... www.howardzinn.org/voices-perfo...

"When A People’s History of the U.S. came out, it literally rocked the boat. Instead of starting where most histories of the Americas start—on the deck of Columbus’s ship—Howard Zinn flipped the script, focusing on what the people standing on the shore would have seen"–BklynPLibrary bit.ly/brp-zinn

Looking forward to the new Howard Zinn biography from Dave Zirin (@edgeofsports.bsky.social) due next summer! -- Stay up to date about all the Zinn-related news & events by joining the email list (emails sent 2-4x/year): www.howardzinn.org/contact-sign...

Aug 6 & 9 mark the anniversary of the Hiroshima & Nagasaki bombings. In THE BOMB, Howard Zinn offers his reflections & political analysis of these events, & how they transformed him from an order-taking WWII bombardier to an anti-authoritarian, anti-war historian. www.howardzinn.org/collection/t...

"Whenever injustices have been remedied, wars halted, women & Black people & Native American given their due, it has been because 'unimportant' people spoke up, organized, protested, and brought democracy alive"–Howard Zinn 📖 www.howardzinn.org/collection/v... 📺 www.howardzinn.org/collection/t...

"The Declaration...says that government is not sacred, that it is set up to give people an equal right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and that if it fails to do this, we have the right to 'alter or abolish it.'"– Howard Zinn, July 4, 1975 www.howardzinn.org/collection/s...

#tdih 1914: National Guard fired on Colorado tent colony of striking miners. Howard Zinn learned of the Ludlow story from Woody Guthrie ballad, not his history classes, leading Zinn to write and teach people's history. #TeachTruth Short film and more ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/lu...

#tdih 1979, the Boston University faculty union called a strike. Howard Zinn was one of the strike committee co-chairs. Read ⬇️ about the strike from Zinn's autobiography, "You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train." 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/bo...

FROM THE ARCHIVES "A Few Cryptic Notes on Power and Powerlessness" by Howard Zinn, 1976 Powers of the Powerless: (the political counterpart of guerrilla tactics) 1. Sheer numbers can be hard to control, especially with dispersal. 2. Organization of energy can make up for lack of resources. 🧵1/5

Today, Jan. 27, marks the 15th anniversary of Howard Zinn's death. Learn how historian, researchers, and activists are keeping Zinn's spirit alive. Subscribe to the newsletter (conta.cc/3E5WEbp) at www.howardzinn.org/contact-sign-up/

“I’m a radical historian & I like radical because radical means getting to the roots of something,” Howard Zinn to Jim Sullivan in 2008. Read more via @forward.bsky.social, written for the 15th anniversary of Howard Zinn's death (1/27/2010). ⬇️ @zinndigital.bsky.social forward.com/culture/6903...

In a 1968 video editorial on @wgbh.org, Howard Zinn (@zinndigital.bsky.social ) nominated Eartha Kitt and Dr. Benjamin Spock for Woman and Man of the Year because they “both refused to play the game” by speaking out against the Vietnam War. #TeachTruth Watch ⬇️ www.howardzinn.org/collection/z...

Fantastic day 1 at #AHA25 with joint ZEP & @zinndigital.bsky.social booth. K-12 teachers & historians, incl. @profjeffries.bsky.social, Joe Schmidt, Ina Pannell-SaintSurin, Dr. Eric Foner, Lauren Cooper, Jessica Terry-Elliott, & more. Sunday at 12: book giveaway & book signing by Jeanne Theoharis.

People’s History at #aha25 in New York Folks from HowardZinn.org and @zinnedproject.bsky.social will have a booth at the American Historical Association Conference this weekend. Stop by and learn about current projects, the Zinn archives, and grab some stickers, pens, and postcards.

Dec. 7 • Noam Chomsky's birthday Howard Zinn: "Like rock & roll groups. I was the warm-up. I had a lot of emo­tional statements surrounding several facts. Noam would come on with one vaguely emotional statement and 7,000 facts. It seemed to me a good combination." www.howardzinn.org/collection/w...

Indian Resistance & Thanksgiving Declarations: 1960s and 70s In Chapter 19 of "A People’s History of the United States," Howard Zinn wrote: “Never in American history had more movements for change been concentrated in so short a span of years.” 📖https://www.howardzinn.org/thanksgiving-resistance/

"We don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory."—Howard Zinn, 2004 www.howardzinn.org/collection/t...