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About Howard Zinn

Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922 – January 27, 2010) was an American historian and a veteran of World War II. He was chair of the history and social sciences department at Spelman College, and a political science professor at Boston University. Zinn wrote more than 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.

Zinn described himself as "something of an anarchist, something of a socialist. Maybe a democratic socialist." He wrote extensively about the civil rights movement, the anti-war movement and labor history of the United States. His memoir, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train (Beacon Press, 1994), was also the title of a 2004 documentary about Zinn's life and work. Zinn died of a heart attack in 2010, at the age of 87.

Howard Zinn writes about United States, History, Politics and government, Howard Zinn (1922-2010), Philosophy, and Foreign relations. Their best-known work is A People's History of the United States: 1492-present.

On FindMyTBR we track 10 books by Howard Zinn, 8 of them confirmed as audiobooks on Spotify or Apple Books — including A People's History of the United States, A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present, and Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology. Full availability across Spotify, Apple Books, Audible, and Amazon is below.