The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s 423 pages on historian and self-described “democratic socialist” Howard Zinn, released Friday morning, outline a record of investigation spanning 25 years, ...

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To Howard Zinn’s followers, the United States and Christianity are seen primarily as oppressors of the weak. Author Howard Zinn reads at a “celebrity reading” of A People’s History of the United ...

This essay is excerpted from Sam Wineburg’s Why Learn History (When It’s Already on Your Phone), out now from University of Chicago Press. History, for Zinn, is looked at from “the bottom up”: a view ...

Some are still in college. Others are older, at the zeniths of their careers. Two generations have come of age saturated by Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States and its disdain for ...

The great Howard Zinn's death has the ominous feeling of bringing too close the end of an era when some western intellectuals had the magnetism of rock stars, and when their ethical and principled ...

Howard Zinn, who has died of a heart attack aged 87, was a much-loved and much-vituperated icon of the American left. He was an activist and historian, and later a dramatist, but always a courageous ...

PISCATAWAY – Rutgers finally has its new athletics director after the board of governors officially approved the hiring of Keli Zinn to fill a role that’s been vacant for nearly a year. Zinn, ...

PISCATAWAY – It’s been just less than a month since Rutgers hired Keli Zinn as its new athletics director, and it’s been just less than three weeks since her first official day in a job that faces an ...

Howard Zinn, historian and shipyard worker, civil rights activist and World War II bombardier, and author of “A People’s History of the United States,” a best seller that inspired a generation of high ...