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According to Wikipedia , Howard Zinn was an American historian, playwright, philosopher, socialist thinker and World War II veteran. He was chair of the history and social sciences department at Spelman College, and a political science professor at Boston University. Zinn wrote over 20 books, including his best-selling and influential A People's History of the United States in 1980. In 2007, he published a version of it for younger readers, A Young People's History of the United States.
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1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 Published Papers A People's History of the United States: From 1492 to the Present (1996) (854)A people's history of the United States : the wall charts (1995) (162)SNCC, The New Abolitionists (1964) (123)Voices of a People's History of the United States (2004) (103)The politics of history (1971) (101)Secrecy, Archives, and the Public Interest (1977) (82)Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology (1990) (60)Disobedience and Democracy: Nine Fallacies on Law and Order (2002) (53)The forging of the American empire (1971) (43)The Twentieth Century: A People's History (1984) (43)Bridging the Class Divide: And Other Lessons for Grassroots Organizing (1997) (41)The Pentagon papers : the Defense Department history of United States decisionmaking on Vietnam (1971) (39)You can't be neutral on a moving train (1994) (32)New Deal thought (1966) (31)The Southern Mystique (1963) (31)A Power Governments Cannot Suppress (2006) (30)Howard Zinn on Democratic Education. (2004) (27)Representative Government (2019) (25)Artists in times of war (2003) (25)The civil war to the present (2003) (20)A Young People's History of the United States (2007) (18)Terrorism and war (2002) (18)American protest literature (2006) (18)Speaking Truth to Power with Books (2009) (18)Postwar America, 1945-1971 (1973) (18)Tyranny Is Tyranny (2015) (17)A People's History Of The Vietnam War (2003) (16)Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn't Tell You (2003) (15)A People's History of American Empire: A Graphic Adaptation (2008) (15)Passionate Declarations: Essays on War and Justice (2003) (14)LaGuardia in Congress (2018) (13)Vietnam: the logic of withdrawal (1967) (12)The power of nonviolence : writings by advocates of peace (2002) (11)A just cause, not a just war (2002) (10)The Higher Law: Thoreau on Civil Disobedience and Reform (2004) (9)The Autobiography of Abbie Hoffman (2000) (7)Law, Justice and Disobedience (2012) (7)The Making of a Public Intellectual (2008) (7)Failure to Quit: Reflections of an Optimistic Historian (1993) (6)Howard Zinn on war (2001) (6)The Other Civil War (2015) (5)March 4 : scientists, students, and society (1970) (5)NECROTIZING ADENOCARCINOMA OF THE ADRENAL AS A CAUSE OF PROLONGED PYREXIA: CASE REPORT (1970) (5)Bomb After Bomb: A Violent Cartography (2007) (4)The politics of history : with a new introduction (1990) (4)Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century@@@Trade Unions and the Economy: 1870-2000 (2002) (3)Reflections of a White Professor at Spelman College in the 1950s (1995) (3)Or Does It Explode (2015) (3)The Future of History Interviews with David Barsamian (1999) (3)The future of history (1999) (3)As Long as Grass Grows or Water Runs (2015) (3)The Impossible Victory: Vietnam (2015) (2)We Take Nothing by Conquest, Thank God (2015) (2)Academic freedom : collaboration and resistance (1982) (2)The Power of Nonviolence (2002) (2)Drawing the Color Line (2015) (2)Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress (2015) (2)Peace signs : the anti-war movement illustrated (2004) (2)Another Look at the Chinese Communists [with Comment] (1962) (2)The Clinton Presidency (2015) (2)Schools and the Manufacture of Mass Deception: A Dialogue (2016) (1)Howard Zinn Speaks: Collected Speeches 1963-2009 (2012) (1)Youth exchange (1966) (1)Harvey Wasserman's history of the United States (1972) (1)The historic unfullfilled promise (2012) (1)Carter-Reagan-Bush: The Bipartisan Consensus (2015) (1)Justice?: Eyewitness accounts (1977) (1)Come September : in conversation with Howard Zinn (2003) (1)VI. Legacies and Meanings (1994) (1)America's concentration camps during World War II : social science and the Japanese American internment (1999) (1)Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom (2015) (1)Self-help in Hard Times (2015) (1)Columbus and Western Civilization (2016) (1)The People Speak: American Voices, Some Famous, Some Little Known: Dramatic Readings Celebrating the Enduring Spirit of Dissent (2004) (1)Vacating the Premises in Vietnam (1969) (1)Robber Barons and Rebels (2015) (1)The healthful use of power. (1966) (1)The Wise Minority: An Argument for Draft Resistance and Civil Disobedience (1972) (0)Book Review: Government and Labor: Vito Marcantonio: Radical in Congress (1969) (0)An Occupied Country (2013) (0)La Guardia: A Fighter Against His Times, 1882-1933.@@@LaGuardia in Congress. (1960) (0)Carter-Reagan-Bush : le consensus bipartisan (2002) (0)william h. chafe. The Unfinished Journey: America since World War II. New York: Oxford University Press. 1986. Pp. xii, 516. $24.95 (1986) (0)L’empire et le peuple (2002) (0)Handbook for Segregationists (1960) (0)Reconversion for What? (2019) (0)A Kind of Revolution (2015) (0)My Face Is Black@@@SNCC: The New Abolitionists (1965) (0)Side Show for Reform (1960) (0)Crucial Role of the Agitator in Society (1958) (0)A Campaign without Class (2016) (0)Grey Matters Interviews Howard Zinn (2016) (0)The Academic Revolution. 2. The Case for Radical Change. (1969) (0)Charles P. Steinmetz, Scientist and Socialist (2019) (0)The Coming Revolt of the Guards (2015) (0)The Poisons of Nationalism (2008) (0)The Double job in civil rights (1979) (0)Remembering Murray Levin (2000) (0)The Empire and the People (2015) (0)The Unreported Resistance (2015) (0)The 2000 Election and the "War on Terrorism" (2015) (0)Lipoma of the ileum suspected preoperatively. (1961) (0)William Dean Howells and the Haymarket Era (2019) (0)We are desperately in need of public deliberation (2011) (0)The Seventies: Under Control? (2015) (0)A Response to Tommy Trantino's God Bless America or Else (2005) (0)Frank Donner. Protectors of Privilege: Red Squads and Police Repression in Urban America. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1990. Pp. xiv, 503. $34.95 (1992) (0)SACC Panel: Proposals for Further Action (2019) (0)Emma : a play in two acts about Emma Goldman, American anarchist (2002) (0)What Will It Take to Prevent Nuclear War: Grassroots Responses to Our Most Challenging Question (1983) (0)Students and Society (2019) (0)The people speak (2010) (0)Uncommon Sense from the Writings of Howard Zinn (2009) (0)Power, history & warfare : University of Wisconsin, Madison, March 21, 1991 (1991) (0)Three American Radicals (2019) (0)Liberté d’expression: Le Premier Amendement en question (2004) (0)A People's War? (2015) (0)Problems and Possibilities in Reconversion (2019) (0)MODERN TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES FOR INTEGRATED ROAD TRAFFIC INFORMATION SERVICES. TECHNICAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL OVERALL CONCEPT--EXEMPLARY DEMONSTRATION WITH BTX. FINAL REPORT. (1987) (0)The Socialist Challenge (2015) (0)[Family--residential district--city planning]. (1973) (0)Scholarship in the Academic Community (2019) (0)Persons of Mean and Vile Condition (2015) (0)"This Thing's to Do" (1964) (0)Reconversion and Academic Research (2019) (0)The Diverted Left (2016) (0)Vito Marcantonio: Radical in Congress. (1969) (0)Artists and Citizens in a Time of War (2002) (0)John Swinton, Crusading Editor (2019) (0)Dilemmas of the Freedom Movement (1966) (0)War Is the Health of the State (2015) (0)More Papers This paper list is powered by the following services:
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What Are Howard Zinn's Academic Contributions? Howard Zinn is most known for their academic work in the field of political science. They are also known for their academic work in the fields of communications, literature, and history.
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