A new biography of Howard Zinn will be released in the summer of 2026 called The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn. Written by The Nation Magazine journalist Dave Zirin, it will be published by Penguin Random House. The post New Biography of Howard Zinn Coming in 2026 appeared first on Howard Zinn.| Howard Zinn
Dates for 2025–2026 performances for Voices of a People’s History have been announced with events planned in Edinburgh and New York. The post Voices of a People’s History Performances, 2025–2026 appeared first on Howard Zinn.| Howard Zinn
HowardZinn.org will share a booth with the SNCC Legacy Project and the Colored Conventions Project to promote digital collections of the voices and histories missing from mainstream history at the National Council for the Social Studies conference, Dec. 5–6, 2025, in Washington D.C. The post People’s History in the Digital Age at 2025 NCSS Conference appeared first on Howard Zinn.| Howard Zinn
On Dec. 4, 2025, John Shattuck, international legal scholar, diplomat, human rights leader, will be the keynote speaker for the 2025 Howard Zinn Lecture Series at Boston University. The post 2025 Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series: John Shattuck appeared first on Howard Zinn.| Howard Zinn
On August 4, 2025, the podcast Borrowed and Returned aired an episode called “The Legacy of Howard Zinn’s Radical History.” From the introduction: "When Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States came out in 1980, it literally rocked the boat. Instead of starting where most histories of the Americas start — on the deck of Columbus’s ship as it approached land — Howard Zinn flipped the script, focusing instead on what the people standing on the shore would have seen....| Howard Zinn
The Howard Zinn Book Fair returns on Dec. 7, 2025 to the City College of San Francisco, Mission campus. The book fair “is an annual celebration of The People’s History, past present and future. We bring together left authors, readers, organizers and community members to debate and discuss strategies for a better world.” This year’s theme is “Fight Supremacy: Actions Against Authoritarianism."| Howard Zinn
By Howard Zinn. From the Archives. Circa 1976. From Howard Zinn's folder of "Course Syllabi: 'Introduction to Political Theory,' 1968-1987" in the "Boston University" series housed at New York University is this list of talking points on "Vulnerability of the Powerful" and "Power of the Powerlessness." Published with permission of the Howard Zinn Revocable Trust. The post From the Archives: “A Few Cryptic Notes on Power and Powerlessness” appeared first on Howard Zinn.| Howard Zinn
On October 9, 2024, Lauren Cooper, HowardZinn.org Digital Curator, and Cole Stallone, independent researcher, completed item-level cataloging (that is, inventorying each and every piece of paper) the Howard Zinn Papers at New York University’s Tamiment Library. The post Archival Milestone: The Howard Zinn Papers Have Been Indexed appeared first on Howard Zinn.| Howard Zinn
By Howard Zinn, 2004 "In this world of war and injustice, how does a person manage to stay socially engaged, committed to the struggle, and remain healthy without burning out or becoming resigned or cynical? I am totally confident not that the world will get better, but that we should not give up the game before all the cards have been played." The post The Optimism of Uncertainty appeared first on Howard Zinn.| Howard Zinn
HowardZinn.org and the Zinn Education Project will be sharing a booth at the American Historical Association conference in New York City, Jan. 3-6, 2025. Stop by to learn about current projects, the Zinn archives, and grab some pens, postcards, and stickers.| Howard Zinn
