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Howard Zinn (1922-2010)
By Liz Johnson, Projects Bibliographer


Howard Zinn: historian, activist, playwright, humanist and advocate for worker’s rights, civil rights and anti-war causes died in January of an apparent heart attack.

Zinn was Professor of History at Spelman College in the 1950s and 1960s and also at Boston University from 1964 to 1988. He wrote works that melded his personal experiences with historical scholarship. In 1959 he won the American Historical Association’s Beveridge Award for his first book, La Guardia in Congress. La Guardia was a champion of worker’s rights to strike and the socialist concept of redistribution of wealth via taxation. One can see how Zinn’s experiences in Brooklyn in the 1920s as the child of Jewish immigrants and his labor in the Brooklyn Naval Yard in the 1930s would lead him to want to write about someone like La Guardia and would cause him to literally become a voice for the people.

You Can’t be Neutral on a Moving Train is a particularly apropos title for his memoirs, because Zinn was in the thick of many struggles. His anti-war writings such as Vietnam: the Logic of Withdrawal (1967, Beacon Press) and Just War (1995, Charta) were informed by his experiences as a bombardier in World War II.

He was also very influential in the Civil Rights movement. He was well-positioned at Spelman College to be an advisor to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), although his work in this fight eventually caused his dismissal from Spelman.

A People’s History of the United States is Zinn’s most well-known and popular work; it continues to be a best-seller even now, thirty years after its first publication in 1980 by Harper & Row.

Below you will find a list of titles by or about Howard Zinn. For your convenience, this list is also available in MS Excel format here.

ARTISTS IN TIMES OF WAR.

• AUTHOR: ZINN, HOWARD, 1922-
• PUBLISHER: SEVEN STORIES PRESS
• CONTENT LEVEL: GEN-AC
• LC CLASS: JZ5584.U6 Z56 2003
• $9.95 PAPER 112 P.
• ISBN: 9781583226025
• B&T   •    YBP

• AUTHOR: ZINN, HOWARD, 1922-
• PUBLISHER: SOUTH END
• CONTENT LEVEL: GEN-AC
• LC CLASS: JC328.3.Z56 2002
• $15.00 PAPER 124 P.
• ISBN: 9780896086753
• B&T   •    YBP

• AUTHOR: ZINN, HOWARD, 1922-
• PUBLISHER: SOUTH END
• CONTENT LEVEL: GEN-AC
• LC CLASS: E175.5.Z56A25 2002
• $16.00 PAPER 164 P.
• ISBN: 9780896086760
• B&T   •    YBP

• AUTHOR: ZINN, HOWARD
• PUBLISHER: COMMON COURAGE PRESS
• CONTENT LEVEL: GEN-AC
• LC CLASS: D16.9Z56 1999
• $13.95 PAPER 166 P.
• ISBN: 9781567511567
• B&T   •    YBP

• AUTHOR: ZINN, HOWARD
• PUBLISHER: AK PRESS
• CONTENT LEVEL: GEN-AC
• LC CLASS: HX843
• $20.00 CDROM 0.5
• ISBN: 9781902593265
• B&T   •    YBP

• AUTHOR: ZINN, HOWARD, 1922-
• PUBLISHER: PARADIGM PUBLISHERS
• CONTENT LEVEL: GEN-AC
• LC CLASS: E175.8.Z56 2004
• $79.00 CLOTH 213 P.
• ISBN: 9781594510540
• B&T   •    YBP

• AUTHOR: ZINN, HOWARD, 1922-
• PUBLISHER: SEVEN STORIES PRESS
• CONTENT LEVEL: GEN-AC
• LC CLASS: D16.9.Z57 2000
• $12.95 PAPER 236 P.
• ISBN: 9781583220481
• B&T   •    YBP

• AUTHOR: ZINN, HOWARD, 1922-
• PUBLISHER: SEVEN STORIES PRESS
• CONTENT LEVEL: GEN-AC
• LC CLASS: E745.Z56 2000
• $12.95 PAPER 206 P.
• ISBN: 9781583220498
• B&T   •    YBP

• AUTHOR: ZINN, HOWARD
• PUBLISHER: CHARTA
• CONTENT LEVEL: GEN-AC
• LC CLASS: CB481
• $9.95 PAPER 67 P.
• ISBN: 9788881585724
• B&T   •    YBP

• AUTHOR: ZINN, HOWARD, 1922-
• PUBLISHER: SOUTH END
• CONTENT LEVEL: GEN-AC
• LC CLASS: PS3576.I538M37 1999
• $12.00 PAPER 55 P.
• ISBN: 9780896085930
• B&T   •    YBP

• AUTHOR: ZINN, HOWARD
• PUBLISHER: HARPERPERENNIAL
• CONTENT LEVEL: GEN-AC
• LC CLASS: D445.Z55 2006
• $13.95 PAPER 167 P.
• ISBN: 9780060844257
• B&T   •    YBP

• AUTHOR: ZINN, HOWARD
• PUBLISHER: HARPERPERENNIAL
• CONTENT LEVEL: GEN-AC
• LC CLASS: E839.5.Z55 2003
• $13.95 PAPER 341 P.
• ISBN: 9780060557676
• B&T   •    YBP

• AUTHOR: ZINN, HOWARD, 1922-
• PUBLISHER: METROPOLITAN HENRY HOLT
• CONTENT LEVEL: GEN-AC
• LC CLASS: E183.7.Z56 2008
• $30.00 CLOTH 273 P.
• ISBN: 9780805077797
• B&T   •    YBP

• AUTHOR: ZINN, HOWARD
• PUBLISHER: HARPERCOLLINS
• CONTENT LEVEL: GEN-AC
• LC CLASS: E178.Z75 2003
• $36.00 CLOTH 729 P.
• ISBN: 9780060528423
• B&T   •    YBP

• AUTHOR: ZINN, HOWARD, 1922-
• PUBLISHER: SOUTH END
• CONTENT LEVEL: ADV-AC
• LC CLASS: HN58.Z55 2002
• $15.00 PAPER 278 P.
• ISBN: 9780896086784
• B&T   •    YBP

• AUTHOR: ZINN, HOWARD, 1922-
• PUBLISHER: CITY LIGHTS
• CONTENT LEVEL: GEN-AC
• LC CLASS: E178.6.Z56 2006
• $29.95 CLOTH 293 P.
• ISBN: 9780872864559
• B&T   •    YBP

• AUTHOR: ZINN, HOWARD, 1922-
• PUBLISHER: SOUTH END
• CONTENT LEVEL: GEN-AC
• LC CLASS: E185.61.Z49 2002
• $17.00 PAPER 286 P.
• ISBN: 9780896086791
• B&T   •    YBP

• AUTHOR: ZINN, HOWARD, 1922-
• PUBLISHER: SOUTH END
• CONTENT LEVEL: GEN-AC
• LC CLASS: E185.61.Z5 2002
• $15.00 PAPER 267 P.
• ISBN: 9780896086807
• B&T   •    YBP

• AUTHOR: ZINN, HOWARD
• PUBLISHER: SEVEN STORIES PRESS
• CONTENT LEVEL: GEN-AC
• LC CLASS: HV6432
• $9.95 PAPER 159 P.
• ISBN: 9781583224939
• B&T   •    YBP

• AUTHOR: ZINN, HOWARD, 1922-
• PUBLISHER: PARADIGM PUBLISHERS
• CONTENT LEVEL: GEN-AC
• LC CLASS: E175.5.Z56Z56 2009
• $20.95 CLOTH 147 P.
• ISBN: 9781594517136
• B&T   •    YBP

• AUTHOR: ZINN, HOWARD, 1922-
• PUBLISHER: SEVEN STORIES PRESS
• CONTENT LEVEL: GEN-AC
• LC CLASS: E902.Z48 2007
• $7.95 PAPER 48 P.
• ISBN: 9781583227695
• B&T   •    YBP

• AUTHOR: ZINN, HOWARD, 1922-
• PUBLISHER: SOUTH END
• CONTENT LEVEL: GEN-AC
• LC CLASS: DS558.Z55 2002
• $15.00 PAPER 131 P.
• ISBN: 9780896086814
• B&T   •    YBP

• AUTHOR: ZINN, HOWARD, 1922-
• PUBLISHER: SEVEN STORIES PRESS
• CONTENT LEVEL: GEN-AC
• LC CLASS: E178.6.Z552 2009
• $21.95 PAPER 746 P.
• ISBN: 9781583228708
• B&T   •    YBP