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White and orange text on blue backround: "There is no flag large enough to cover the shame [nor the crime] of killing innocent people." -- Howard Zinn HowardZinn.org
"There is no flag large enough to cover the shame [nor the crime] of killing innocent people." -- Howard Zinn, @zinndigital.bsky.social
2025 HOWARD ZINN LECTURE SERIES
“Resisting Authoritarianism: What the People Can Do”
In Dec., John Shattuck, international legal scholar, diplomat, and human rights leader, gave the keynote speech at Boston University.
The video and transcript are available online:
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College of 3 book covers under banner with white, yellow, and beige text on orange background that reads "Zinn Education Project: Teaching People's History."
TEACH THE BLACK FREEDOM STRUGGLE
Free online classes
2/2 Jarvis Givens
I’ll Make Me a World: 100-Year Journey of Black History Month
4/13 Matthew Delmont
Until the Last Gun Is Silent
5/4 Marcus Rediker
Freedom Ship: Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea
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VOICES OF A PEOPLE'S HISTORY PERFORMANCES at THE LINCOLN CENTER in NEW YORK CITY
2/19 • Black History Is for Everyone: Voices of a People’s History with Brian Jones
5/28 • Voices of A People’s History w/ student performers
Free and open to the public
www.peopleshistory.us
OAH conference logo on left side. On right, photo of a conference booth with tables on left (Zinn Education Project) and right (HowardZinn.org) with promotional posters in background.
If you are attending the Organization of American Historians (@oah.org) Conference in Philly this April, stop by the HowardZinn.org & @zinnedproject.bsky.social booth to learn more about current and upcoming campaigns and connect with others teaching, researching, and writing people’s history.
Polaroid photo with text and button underneath. Howard Zinn, Our Favorite Teacher. Bill Goodfellow, Class of 1970, Boston University
OUR FAVORITE TEACHER
“Howard Zinn changed my life! With 2 colleagues from the anti-war movement, we founded the Center for International Policy w/ the goal of making sure the lessons of the Vietnam War that Howard had taught us were not forgotten.”—Bill Goodfellow
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2 covers side by side. Black text on white background with red border. "A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn." Artistic rendering of green Statue of Liberty, white text on red background. "Howard Zinn: Une Histoire Populaire Americaine."
NEW EDITION • NEW FILM
HarperCollins will publish a special edition of "A People's History" for their American Classics series.
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Les Mutins Films releases Part 2 of the documentary "Howard Zinn: Une Histoire Populaire Americaine"
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Book cover with B&W images at top (protest scene) and bottom (portrait of person) with red and blue text on cream background in the middle. "The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn. Written by Dave Zirin"
NEW BIOGRAPHY • SUMMER 2026
The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn
A new biography of Howard Zinn by Dave Zirin (@edgeofsports.bsky.social), politics and sports writer for @thenation.com, will be released in August.
Pre-order: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
B&W portrait of person sitting in front of "Strike!" poster and book shelves. Text: Howard ZInn 1922-2010. "I leave you with the idea that we’re not alone, and that there are people all over the world and people in this country who do not accept the idea of a special dispensation to do whatever we want in the world. And they will insist on human equality of people everywhere." —Howard Zinn, “The Myth of American Exceptionalism,” 2005
On the anniversary of Howard Zinn's death in 2010, we share updates about forthcoming books, a new film, online classes, booth displays, performances, and events that carry forward Zinn’s legacy of activism.
More in the newsletter sent 2-4x/year. Subscribe at www.howardzinn.org/contact-sign-up/
Howard ZInn Book Fair 2025. Fight Supremacy: Actions Against Authoritarianism. Sun., December 7, 10am-6pm. Mission Campus, City College of San Francisco. Black text on yellow background with graphic of flag held by hand
If you're in the SF bay area, HowardZinn.org will be at the Howard Zinn Bookfair @howardzinnbookfair.bsky.social Dec. 7. This free event brings together "authors, readers, organizers, and community members to debate and discuss strategies for a better world.” www.zinnbookfair.org
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
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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 ⬇️
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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.
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Blue text on faded blue photo in background: Civil disobedience, that’s not our problem. Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. -- HOWARD ZINN
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...
A young Howard Zinn stands in front of a bookshelf full of books; a sign behind him says "Strike!"
“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:
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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...
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"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
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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...
The Bomb by Howard Zinn. B&W image of two young boys and B&W image of a destroyed building on a brown/black background (book cover of The Bomb).
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.
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People's History collage: The People Speak (film), Voices of a People's History of the United States (book), A People's History of the United States (book)
"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
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"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
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#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 ⬇️
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#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." 🧵
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Vulnerability of the Powerful, cont.
4. Control by a few over many depends on fragmentation of the many
5. In an advanced society, control depends on everyone working
6. Control requires the loyalty of guards and servants
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View FROM THE ARCHIVE ⤵️:
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