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{{Infobox Person
|name= = Howard Zinn
|image = Howard Zinn.jpg
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|caption = Howard Zinn Speaking at [[Marlboro College]] Feb. 2004 
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1922|08|24}}
|birth_place = Brooklyn, New York
|occupation = [[Professor]], [[History|Historian]], [[Playwright]]
|main interests = [[History]], [[Civil rights]] [[War]] [[Peace]]
|spouse = Roslyn Zinn
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'''Howard Zinn''' (born August 24, 1922) is a [[political science|political scientist]], [[history|historian]], [[Social criticism|social critic]], [[socialist]], activist and [[playwright]], best known as author of the [[bestseller]]<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/30/books/review/30donadio.html?ex=1181275200&en=697d07852d9988f2&ei=5070 NY Times Bestseller list]</ref> ''[[A People's History of the United States]]''. 

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   Sorry comrades, I need to go out now and walk my poodle Roland Rance in the park, or else he will mess the furniture.

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Zinn has been active in the [[African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968)|Civil Rights]] and the [[Peace movement|anti-war movements]] in the United States.<ref><em> You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times</em> (1994)ISBN 0-8070-7127-7</em></ref>

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Zinn's testimony as to the motivation for government secrecy was confirmed in 1989 by Erwin Griswold, who as U.S. solicitor general during the Nixon administration, prosecuted ''The New York Times'' in the Pentagon Papers case in 1971. <ref name=
%26quot%3B"autogenerated1%26quot%3B%26gt%3B%7B%7B">{{cite web|url=http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-op-blanton21may21,0,1992884.story|title="The lie behind the secrets"|author=Blanton, Tom|date=2006-05-21|publisher=Los Angeles Times|accessdate=2008-01-21}}</ref> Griswold persuaded three Supreme Court justices to vote to stop ''The New York Times'' from continuing to publish the Pentagon Papers, an order known as "prior restraint" that has been held to be illegal under the [[First Amendment to the United States Constitution|First Amendment]] to the [[U.S. Constitution]]. The papers were simultaneously published in ''[[The Washington Post]]'', effectively nulling the effect of the prior restraint order. In 1989, Griswold admitted there was no national security damage from publication of the papers<ref name=%26quot%3B"autogenerated1%26quot%3B" />In a column in the ''Washington Post'', Griswold wrote: "It quickly becomes apparent to any person who has considerable experience with classified material that there is massive over classification and that the principal concern of the classifiers is not with national security, but with governmental embarrassment of one sort or another."
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*[http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/?article=385 "Howard Zinn's History Lessons"], Michael Kazin
* [http://www.thepinklady.fr/post/2008/01/31/The-little-Royan-War “The little Royan War”]
* [http://anarchismtoday.org/News/topic=14.html Articles] and [http://anarchismtoday.org/DF_Multimedia/categoryby=19.html videos] featuring Howard Zinn at [http://AnarchismToday.org AnarchismToday.org]

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