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Howard Zinn

Dr. Howard Zinn (probably prefers Howard, or maybe "the How-meister") is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Boston University. An insightful social critic and acclaimed historian, he studies forces that have broken down community as well as obstacles confronting any genuine attempt to build or rebuild community.

He is the author of fourteen books, including The Zinn Reader, a powerful memoir in which he relates his life and political activism from his moments as a civil rights chronicler and ally to his antiwar protests and teaching career. Throughout this book, Zinn shows that civil disobedience is necessary to combat society's wrongs. Professor Zinn argues that it is the social responsibility of the historian to do work that will help solve the conflicts humans face.

His well-known A People's History of the United States, 1492- Present (Second Edition, 1995), which has sold more than 350,000 copies, tells American history from the point of view of the powerless and disenfranchised, those whose circumstances are usually omitted from history books.