Howard Zinn (born August 24, 1922) is an American historian and professor emeritus in the Political Science Department at Boston University. He is the author of more than 20 books, including A People's History of the United States (1980).
Zinn has been active in the civil rights, civil liberties and anti-war movements in the United States, and has written extensively on all three subjects.
Zinn was born to a Jewish immigrant family in Brooklyn. H...
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Howard Zinn (born August 24, 1922) is an American historian and professor emeritus in the Political Science Department at Boston University. He is the author of more than 20 books, including A People's History of the United States (1980).
Zinn has been active in the civil rights, civil liberties and anti-war movements in the United States, and has written extensively on all three subjects.
Zinn was born to a Jewish immigrant family in Brooklyn. His father, Eddie Zinn, born in Austria-Hungary, emigrated to the U.S. with his brother Phil before the outbreak of World War I. Howard's mother Jenny Zinn emigrated from the Eastern Siberian city of Irkutsk.
Both parents were factory workers with limited education when they met and married, and there were no books or magazines in the series of apartments where they raised their children. Zinn's parents introduced him to literature by sending 25 cents plus a coupon to the New York Post for each of the 20 volumes of Charles Dickens' collected...
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