To quote Howard Zinn, " if I found that the FBI did not have any dossier on me, it would have been tremendously embarrassing and I wouldn't have been able to face my friends.

A U. S. bombardier in April 1945, Zinn dropped napalm bombs on Royan, a seaside resort in southwestern France.

Zinn wrote, " I recalled flying on that mission, too, as deputy lead bombardier, and that we did not aim specifically at the ' Skoda works ' ( which I would have noted, because it was the one target in Czechoslovakia I had read about ) but dropped our bombs, without much precision, on the city of Pilsen.

After World War II, Zinn attended New York University on the GI Bill, graduating with a B. A.

As Zinn described in The Nation, though Spelman administrators prided themselves for turning out refined " young ladies ," its students were likely to be found on the picket line, or in jail for participating in the greater effort to break down segregation in public places in Atlanta.

In an article on the civil rights movement in Albany, Zinn described the people who participated in the Freedom Rides to end segregation, and the reluctance of President John F. Kennedy to enforce the law.

Zinn discussed that history for several hours, later reflecting on his time before the jury.

He observed that it is not unusual for prominent professors such as Zinn to weigh in on current events, citing a resolution opposing the war in Iraq that was recently ratified by the American Historical Association.

Because of a Freedom of Information Act ( FOIA ) request, on July 30, 2010, the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) released a file with 423 pages of information on Howard Zinn ’ s life and activities.

During the height of McCarthyism in 1949, the FBI first opened a domestic security investigation on Zinn ( FBI File # 100-360217 ), based on Zinn ’ s activities in what the agency considered to be communist front groups and informant reports that Zinn was an active member of the Communist Party of the United States ( CPUSA ).

Later in the 1960s, as a result of Zinn ’ s campaigning against the Vietnam War and his influence on Martin Luther King, the FBI designated Zinn a high security risk to the country, a category that allowed them to summarily arrest him if a state of emergency were to be declared.

Zinn was swimming in a hotel pool when he died of an apparent heart attack in Santa Monica, California, on January 27, 2010.

* In the System Of A Down song " Deer Dance ", about police brutality against peaceful protest, Zinn is paraphrased in the line " We can't afford to be neutral on a moving train " and in their song " AD. D " from their album Steal This Album!

* The song Franco Un-American, off the 2003 album The War on Errorism by American punk rock band NOFX, references lead singer Fat Mike reading Howard Zinn as part of learning more about the world.

* Howard Zinn on War ( 2000 ) ISBN 1-58322-049-6.

* Howard Zinn on History ( 2000 ) ISBN 1-58322-048-8.

* Introduction by Howard Zinn, The Higher Law: Thoreau on Civil Disobedience and Reform

* Howard Zinn on why there are no just wars: " Holy Wars " – video by Democracy Now!

* Eitzen, Stanley D. and Maxine Baca Zinn ( 1997 ).

* Actors Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, who grew up near Zinn and were family friends, gave A People's History a plug in their Academy Award-winning screenplay for Good Will Hunting ( 1997 ).

* The Cold War & the University: Toward an Intellectual History of the Postwar Years ( Noam Chomsky ( Editor ) Authors: Ira Katznelson, R. C. Lewontin, David Montgomery, Laura Nader, Richard Ohmann, Ray Siever, Immanuel Wallerstein, Howard Zinn ( 1997 ) ISBN 1-56584-005-4.

* Andrew C. Zinn: The Truth Behind The Eyes ( IUniverse, US, 2005 ; ISBN 0-595-37103-5 )— Dark Poetry

* Playbook by Maxine Klein, Lydia Sargent and Howard Zinn ( 1986 ) ISBN 0-89608-309-8.

* A People's History of the United States: The Civil War to the Present Kathy Emery and Ellen Reeves, Howard Zinn ( 2003 teaching edition ) ISBN 1-56584-725-3.

* A People's History of the United States: The Wall Charts by Howard Zinn and George Kirschner ( 1995 ) ISBN 1-56584-171-9.

* Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century ( Dana Frank, Robin Kelley, and Howard Zinn ) ( 2002 ) ISBN 0-8070-5013-X.

* Howard Zinn On Democratic Education Donaldo Macedo, Editor ( 2004 ) ISBN 1-59451-054-7.

* A People's History of the Civil War: Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom by David Williams, Howard Zinn ( Series Editor ) ( 2005 ) ISBN 1-59558-018-2.

* A People's History of the American Revolution by Ray Raphael, ( 2002 ) ISBN 0-06-000440-1 Howard Zinn Foreword for New Press People's History Series.

* Howard Zinn, Just War, Charta, 2006, ISBN 978-88-8158-572-4

* Gino Strada, Howard Zinn Just war, 2005, ISBN 88-8158-572-3.

Zinn collaborated with historian Staughton Lynd mentoring student activists, among them Alice Walker, who would later write The Color Purple ; and Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children ’ s Defense Fund.

* A Young People's History of the United States, adapted from the original text by Rebecca Stefoff ; illustrated and updated through 2006, with new introduction and afterword by Howard Zinn ; two volumes, Seven Stories Press, New York, 2007.

: What the Classroom Didn't Teach Me about the American Empire ; by Howard Zinn ; Narrated by Viggo Mortensen

* Zinn Justin, Jean ; Renormalization and renormalization group: From the discovery of UV divergences to the concept of effective field theories, in: de Witt-Morette C., Zuber J .- B.

* Howard Zinn – Interviewed by Amy Goodman ; late historian and activist ; author of several books, including A People's History of the United States.

* Zinn, Howard, A People's History of the United States ( 1492 – Present ) ( 1980 ; 2003 )

Covered in the chapter are the American Federation of Labor ( which Zinn argues provided too exclusive of a union for non-white, female, and unskilled workers ; Zinn argues in Chapter 24 that this changes in the 1990s ), Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW ), Mary Harris " Mother " Jones, Joe Hill, the Socialist Labor Party, W. E. B.

Zinn argues that the resignation of Richard Nixon and the exposure of crimes committed by the CIA and FBI during the decade were done by the government in order to regain support for the government from the American people without making fundamental changes to the system ; according to Zinn, Gerald Ford's presidency continued the same basic policies of the Nixon administration.

Zinn expects this movement to use " demonstrations, marches, civil disobedience ; strikes and boycotts and general strikes ; direct action to redistribute wealth, to reconstruct institutions, to revamp relationships.

Zinn argues that attacks on the US by Arab terrorists ( such as the September 11, 2001 attacks ) are not caused by a hatred for our freedom ( as claimed by President George W. Bush ), but by grievances with US foreign policies such as " stationing of U. S. troops in Saudi Arabia ... sanctions against Iraq which ... had resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of children ; the continued U. S. support of Israel's occupation of Palestinian land.

Kazin will be hard-pressed to charge Zinn with politicizing the intelligence here ; the volume offers only Zinn ’ s sparse introductions to each piece, letting the actors and their words speak for themselves.

* A People's History of the United States: The Wall Charts ; designed by Howard Zinn and George Kirschner ; New Press ( 2007 ).

* A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn ( London ; New York: Longman, 1980 )

He also wrote a history of U. S. intervention abroad, The Forging of the American Empire, originally published in 1974 and republished in 2003 by Haymarket Books with a new introduction by Howard Zinn ; and an autobiography, Unrepentant Radical.

This work and related writings have been criticized by the historian Howard Zinn for downplaying the importance of " unintended " and " collateral " civilian deaths that could be classified as genocidal ; and by Edward S. Herman and Joseph Nevins