Howard Zinn Audio & Video

Since its original landmark publication in 1980, A People's History of the United States has been chronicling American history from the bottom up...

In May of 1886 Americans awoke to the news that a bomb had exploded a Chicago labor rally killing several policemen.

For much of his life, historian Howard Zinn chronicled American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version taught in schools - with its emphasis on great men in high places - to focus on the street, the home, and the workplace.

Mr. Zinn discusses his book A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present, published by Harper Perennial Library.

In this recorded event from the Lannan Foundation, Howard Zinn introduces dramatic readings from Voices of a People's History of the United States which is a companion to his A People's History of the United States...

This makes for exciting listening and is on its own an invaluable contribution to understanding American history.

One year after tens of thousands of demonstrators shut down the WTO meetings in Seattle, we released an audio introduction to the New World Order & its discontents.

Howard Zinn tells the story of one of the most important organizations of the Civil Rights Movement.

Americans have long embraced a notion of superiority, claims Howard Zinn. Governor Winthrop of the Massachusetts Bay Colony described establishing “a city on a hill,” to serve the world as a beacon of liberty.

Arundhati Roy is the author of The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1998.