Howard Zinn weaves rich historical narratives that inspire and captivate.

HOWARD ZINN (August 24, 1922 ? January 27, 2010) was a historian, playwright, and activist. He wrote the classic A People's History of the United States, The book, which has sold more than two million copies, has been featured on The Sopranos and Simpsons, and in the film Good Will Hunting. The book has appeared multiple times on the New York Times best-seller list.

Zinn was the author of many books, including an autobiography, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train, and the plays Marx in Soho, Emma, and Daughter of Venus. He received the Lannan Foundation Literary Award for Nonfiction and the Eugene V. Debs award for his writing and political activism.

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Arnove's writing has appeared in O Magazine, The Financial Times, The Nation, Monthly Review, In These Times, L'Humanite, Le Nouvel Observateur, Mother Jones, and other publications. He has appeared on BBC, Democracy Now!, Sky News, ABC Radio in Australia, Alternative Radio, CounterSpin, Air America, and public radio programs across the country.

Table of Contents

Introduction

1.Southern Influence in National Politics (Atlanta, GA, April 12, 1963)

2.Reform or Revolution (from a debate with William F. Buckley at Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, January 11, 1971)

3.Thinking About Vietnam: Political Theory and Human Life (January 27, 1973)

4.Academic Freedom: Collaboration and Resistance (twenty-third T. B. Davie memorial lecture, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, July 23, 1982)

5.Second Thoughts on the First Amendment (University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, October 25, 1989)

6.1492-1992: The Legacy of Columbus (Madison, Wisconsin, October 9, 1991)

7.A People's History of the United States (Reed College, Portland, Oregon, November 20, 1995)

8.The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti (Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, October 9, 1997)

9.U.S. Imperialism and the War with Spain (Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 30, 1998)

10.War and Democracy (Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, November 11, 1999)

11.Emma Goldman, Anarchism, and War Resistance (Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 29, 2002)

12.Bringing Democracy Alive (Shoreline Community College, Seattle, Washington, April 10, 2002)

13.Confronting Government Lies (General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association, Boston, Massachusetts, June 28, 2003)

14.History Matters (Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 6, 2004)

15.The Myth of American Exceptionalism (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 14, 2005)

16.Just War (Rome, Italy, June 23, 2005)

17.The Uses of History and the War on Terrorism (Madison, Wisconsin, October 5, 2006)

18.Overcoming Obstacles (University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, November 30, 2006)

19.Civil Disobedience in the 21st Century ("Anatomy of War" conference, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado, October 9, 2008)

20.Howard Zinn Talks to Social Studies Teachers (Keynote address, National Council for the Social Studies Conference in Houston, Texas, November 16, 2008)

21.The State of the Union 2009 (Back Pages Books, Waltham, Massachusetts, November 18, 2008)

22.Standing Up for Justice in the Age of Obama (Busboys and Poets, Washington, DC, February 2, 2009)

23.Talk on democracy and citizenship in Greece (French Institute, Athens, Greece, May 25, 2009)

24.Three Holy Wars (Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, November 11, 2009)

Acknowledgments
About Howard Zinn
About Anthony Arnove
Works by Howard Zinn