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{{Infobox Person
|name = =Howard Zinn
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|birth_date = {{birth date|mf=yes|1922|08|24}}
|birth_place = {{city-state|Brooklyn|New York}}, U.S.
|death_date={{dda|2010|01|27|1922|08|24}}<ref name="bost-death"%26quot%3Bbost-death%26quot%3B />
|death_place={{city-state|Santa Monica|California}}, U.S.
|occupation = [[Professor]], [[History|historian]], [[playwright]]
|main interests = [[History]], [[Civil rights]] [[War]] [[Peace]]
|spouse = Roslyn Zinn (died 2008)<ref name="bost-death"%26quot%3Bbost-death%26quot%3B />
|alma_mater = [[New York University]] <small>([[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]])</small><br />[[Columbia University]] <small>([[Master of Arts (postgraduate)|M.A.]])</small> <small>([[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]])</small>
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'''Howard Zinn''' (August 24, 1922 – January 27, 2010)<ref name="bost-death">{{%26quot%3Bbost-death%26quot%3B%26gt%3B%7B%7Bcite web |url=http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/01/howard_zinn_his.html |title=Howard Zinn, historian who challenged status quo, dies at 87|last=Feeney|first=Mark |date=27 January 2010 |publisher=Boston.com |accessdate=2010-01-27 |location=USA}}</ref> was an [[United States|American]] [[historian]], [[author]], [[activist]], [[playwright]], [[intellectual]] and Professor of Political Science at [[Boston University]] from 1964 to 1988.<ref>{{cite web |author=July 05, 2008 |url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF7GoDYEbfQ |title=Howard Zinn'a political philosophy connected to democratic socialism, although he was sympathetic to anarchism|publisher=Youtube.com |date=2008-07-05 |accessdate=2010-01-28}}</ref> He wrote more than 20 books, which included his best-selling and influential ''[[A People's History of the United States]]''.<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/us/29zinn.html? Howard Zinn, Historian, Is Dead at 87], January 28, 2010.</ref> Zinn also wrote extensively about the [[African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968)|civil rights]], [[civil liberties]] and [[Peace movement|anti-war]] movements. His memoir, "You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train," became the title of a 2004 documentary about Zinn's life and work.<ref name="HP">[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/27/%26quot%3BHP%26quot%3B%26gt%3B[http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ehuffingtonpost%2Ecom%2F2010%2F01%2F27%2Fhoward-zinn-dead-author-o_n_439350.%2Ehtml Howard Zinn Dead, Author Of 'People's History Of The United States' Died At 87] by Hillel Italie, ''[[The Huffington Post]]'', January 27, 2010.</ref> 

==Life and career==
===Early life===
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===Education===
After World War II, Zinn attended [[New York University]] on the [[GI Bill]], graduating with a B.A. in 1951 and [[Columbia University]], where he earned an M.A. (1952) and a Ph.D. in history with a minor in political science (1958). His masters' thesis examined the [[Ludlow massacre|Colorado coal strikes of 1914]].<ref name=
"%26quot%3Beducationupdate2004">%26quot%3B%26gt%3BAppel,%2C JM. [http://www.educationupdate.com/archives/2004/apr04/issue/col_howardzinn.html Howard Zinn: Chronicling Lives from Spelman College to Boston U.], April 2004.</ref> His [[doctoral dissertation]] ''LaGuardia in Congress'' was a study of [[Fiorello LaGuardia]]'s congressional career, and it depicted LaGuardia representing "the conscience of the twenties" as LaGuardia fought for public power, the right to strike, and the redistribution of wealth by taxation.<ref name="%26quot%3Beducationupdate2004"/>%26quot%3B%2F%26gt%3B "His specific legislative program," Zinn wrote, "was an astonishingly accurate preview of the [[New Deal]]." It was published by the [[Cornell University]] Press for the [[American Historical Association]]. ''La Guardia in Congress'' was nomonated for the [[American Historical Association]]'s [[Beveridge Award|Beveridge Prize]] as the best English-language book on American history.<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/us/29zinn.html January 29, 2010 "Howard Zinn, Historian, Is Dead at 87"].</ref>

While at Columbia, his professors included [[Harry Carman]], [[Henry Steele Commager]], and [[David Herbert Donald|David Donald]].<ref name="%26quot%3Beducationupdate2004"/>%26quot%3B%2F%26gt%3B But it was Columbia historian [[Richard Hofstadter]]'s ''[[The American Political Tradition]]'' that made the most lasting impression. Zinn regularly included it in his lists of recommended readings, and after [[Barack Obama]] was elected [[President of the United States]], Zinn wrote, "If Richard Hofstadter were adding to his book ''The American Political Tradition'', in which he found both "[[conservative]]" and "[[liberal]]" president(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 [[United States Constitution|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 that there was no national security damage resulting from the 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."

(contracted; show full) had [[Mary Harris Jones|Mother Jones]]. It had [[Emma Goldman]]. It had several million people reading socialist newspapers around the country. Socialism basically said, hey, let's have a kinder, gentler society. Let's share things. Let's have an economic system that produces things not because they're profitable for some corporation, but produces things that people need. People should not be retreating from the word socialism because you have to go beyond capitalism."<ref name
 = "ZirinHP">[http://www.=%26quot%3BZirinHP%26quot%3B%26gt%3B[http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ehuffingtonpost.com/%2Ecom%2Fdave-zirin/%2Fhoward-zinn-the-historian_b_439757.%2Ehtml Howard Zinn: The Historian Who Made History] by [[Dave Zirin]], ''[[The Huffington Post]]'', January 28, 2010</ref>}}

==Death==
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==Awards==
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For his leadership in the Peace Movement, Zinn received the Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Award in 1996. He received the [[Thomas Merton Award]] and, in 1998, the [[Eugene V. Debs]] Award <ref>[http://www.eugenevdebs.com/pages/foundation.html]</ref>. In 1998, he won the [[Lannan Literary Award]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lannan.org/lf/bios/detail/howard-zinn/ |title=Lannan Foundation – Howard Zinn |publisher=Lannan.org |date= |accessdate=2010-(contracted; show full)
* The [[Pearl Jam]] song "Down" from the album ''[[Lost Dogs (album)]]'' was inspired by the band's friendship with Zinn.
* Actors [[Matt Damon]] and [[Ben Affleck]] who grew up near Zinn and were family friends, gave ''"A People's History"'' a plug in their Academy Award-winning screenplay for ''[[Good Will Hunting]]''.<ref name=
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* [[Marge Simpson]] is seen reading "A People's History" in [[The Simpsons]] episode 1911 That 90's Show, which flashes back to when Marge was in college. 
* Musician [[Bruce Springsteen]]'s, bleak album "[[Nebraska (album)|Nebraska]]" was inspired in part by ''"A People's History."''<ref name="HP"%26quot%3BHP%26quot%3B />
* ''"A People's History"'' was the basis for the 2007 documentary, ''Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind''."<ref name="HP"%26quot%3BHP%26quot%3B />
* The NOFX song Franco Un-American references Howard Zinn.
* In the System Of A Down song "Deer Dance", about Police Brutality against peaceful protest, Zinn is paraphrased in the line "We can't afford to be neutral on a moving train".
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbaizDSg1YU Howard Zinn on Marxism, Anarchism, and the Paris Commune] interviewed by Sasha Lilley, November 5, 2009
* [http://www.democracynow.org/2010/1/28/howard_zinn_1922_2010_a_tribute Howard Zinn (1922-2010): A Tribute to the Legendary Historian with Noam Chomsky, Alice Walker, Naomi Klein and Anthony Arnove]

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