Howard Zinn Articles

Howard Zinn, author of the revisionist A People's History of the United States, died of a heart attack in Santa Monica, Calif., on Wednesday. He was 87. The Brooklyn-born writer and teacher — admired by progressives, reviled by reactionaries — had his People's History mentioned by friend and admirer Matt Damon in the 1997 drama Good Will Hunting, for which Damon and Ben Affleck won [...]