Name
Howard Zinn
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1922-08-24
Deathday
2010-01-27 (88 years old)
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Biography
Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922 – January 27, 2010) was an American historian, academic, author, playwright, and social activist. He specialized in the labor history of the United States in the 20th century. In his tenure as a political science professor at Boston University from 1964-88 he wrote more than 20 books, which included his best-selling and influential A People's History of the United States. He wrote extensively about the Civil Rights, civil liberties and anti-war movements. His memoir, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train, was also the title of a 2004 documentary about Zinn's life and work.
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Known For
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As a director and his crew shoot a controversial film about Christopher Columbus in Cochab...
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A look at America's struggles with war, class, race and women's rights. based on Howard Zi...
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"The Most Dangerous Man in America" is the story of what happens when a former Pentagon in...
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You Can't Be Neutral documents the life and times of the historian, activist and author of...
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A visual essay about the progressive tradition of the United States as seen through grave ...
- 2004 Liberty Bound as self
- 2020 The Berrigans: Devout and Dangerous as Self
- 2004 Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train as Self
- 2010 Human Resources as Self
- 2011 I Am as Self
- 2011 Ethos as Self
- 2010 Psywar
- 2008 In Prison My Whole Life as Self
- 2013 Creating Freedom: The Lottery of Birth
- 2004 Axis of Evil: Perforated Praeter Naturam
- 2010 Theory and Practice: Conversations with Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn as Self
- 2009 The Most Dangerous Man in America as Self - Historian
- 2008 American Feud: A History of Conservatives and Liberals as Self (archive footage)
- 2015 Howard Zinn: A People's History of the United States as Himself
- 2004 Rush to War as Self
- 2009 The People Speak as Self
- 2008 Balkan Rhapsodies: 78 Measures of War as Self
- 2026 Howard Zinn, une histoire populaire américaine 2 as himself
- Soon Henry David Thoreau: Surveyor of the Soul as Self
- 2023 Monumental Myths as Self
- 2002 The Real Nam: Voices From Within as Self
- 2002 Guts and Glory as Self
- 1996 The Daily Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
