Howard Zinn is a historian, political scientist, social critic, activist and playwright, best known as author of the bestseller A People's History of the United States.
Zinn has been active in the Civil Rights and anti-war movements in the United States.
The author of some 20 books, Zinn is currently Professor Emeritus in the Political Science Department at Boston University. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife, the artist Roslyn Zinn. The couple have two children, Myla and Jeff, and five grandchildren. Both artist and editor, Roslyn has had a role in editing all of Zinn's books and many of his articles.
Do strong nations have an interest in writing accurate historical accounts?
The next President should pull the troops out of Iraq immediately, Zinn says.
After some 60 million dead, did we rid the world of fascism or racism or militarism? Not at all, the late Howard Zinn told Big Think.
We’ve come from a tightly segregated society to an integrated one, Zinn says.
For Zinn, the 2008 US election comes down to the war.
What we have is not democracy, Zinn says. We just have formal institutions.
The world, Zinn says, is trying to overcome American dominance.