Howard Zinn Audio & Video

Since its original landmark publication in 1980, A People's History of the United States has been chronicling American history from the bottom up...

Howard Zinn, a professor emeritus of political science at Boston University, is the author of twenty books.

In May of 1886 Americans awoke to the news that a bomb had exploded a Chicago labor rally killing several policemen.

Mr. Zinn discusses his book A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present, published by Harper Perennial Library.

Americans have long embraced a notion of superiority, claims Howard Zinn. Governor Winthrop of the Massachusetts Bay Colony described establishing “a city on a hill,” to serve the world as a beacon of liberty.

In this presentation of The Massachusetts School of Law's program, Books of Our Times, Dean Lawrence R. Velvel interviews American Historian Howard Zinn on his books: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train - A personal History of Our Times, and Failure To Quit - Reflections of an Optimistic Historian.

This makes for exciting listening and is on its own an invaluable contribution to understanding American history.

Join this interactive town meeting with Howard Zinn, upon the reissue of his classic book A People's History of the United States, moderated by James R. Green, Professor of History at UMass, Boston.

UC Berkeley's Harry Kreisler interviews historian and activist Howard Zinn.

Arundhati Roy is the author of The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1998.