Labor Day is a good time to pay tribute to the late Howard Zinn, a rebel historian who broke with the tedious orthodoxy of “patriotic” history to tell the tale of those consigned to the bottom of the ...

Howard Zinn, an author, teacher and political activist whose leftist "A People's History of the United States" became a million-selling alternative to mainstream texts and a favorite of such ...

Howard Zinn, one of the country’s most celebrated historians, died of a heart attack January 27, 2010, in Santa Monica, California. He was 87 years old. His classic work, A People’s History of the ...

1. Columbus, the Indians, and human progress -- 2. Drawing the color line -- 3. Persons of mean and vile condition -- 4. Tyranny Is tyranny -- 5. A Kind of revolution -- 6. The intimately oppressed -- ...