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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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   Hey boys and girls, come take a look at what I can do!

   I can twist my little peenie into a hammer and a sickle!

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'''Howard Zinn''' (born August 24, 1922) is a [[professor]], [[political science|political scientist]], [[history|historian]], [[Social criticism|social critic]], [[democratic 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]](contracted; show full)

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%3Bautogenerated1">{{%26quot%3B%26gt%3B%7B%7Bcite 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%3Bautogenerated1"%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://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]
*[http://citizen.nfb.ca/blogs/podcasts/taking-the-risk-for-change/ Taking the Risk for Change: Interview with Howard Zinn]
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