This page features a catalog of Zinn’s written work including books, adaptions, and columns and articles in The Nation, the Boston Globe, The Progressive and ZCommunications magazine. For a fuller listing of books, articles, letters, films, audio, and photos from publishers, broadcasters, organizations, archives, libraries, and personal holdings, visit the Howard Zinn Digital Collection.
Books by Howard Zinn
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LaGuardia in Congress Cornell University Press, 1959; Fall Creek Books, 2010 |
1959 |
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The Southern Mystique
Knopf 1959; Touchstone 1972; South End Press, 2002; Haymarket Books, 2013 |
1959 |
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SNCC: The New Abolitionists Beacon Press, 1964; South End Press, 2002; Haymarket Books, 2013 |
1964 |
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Vietnam: The Logic of Withdrawal Beacon Press, 1967; South End Press, 2002; Haymarket Books, 2013 |
1967 |
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Disobedience and Democracy: Nine Fallacies on Law and Order Vintage, 1968; South End Press, 2002; Haymarket Books, 2013 |
1968 |
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The Politics of History Beacon Press, 1970; University of Illinois Press, 1990 |
1970 |
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Postwar America: 1945–1971
Bobbs-Merrill, 1973; South End Press, 2002; Haymarket Books, 2013 |
1973 |
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Justice in Everyday Life: The Way It Really Works
Beacon Press, 1977; South End Press, 2002; Haymarket Books, 2013 Edited by Howard Zinn with multiple contributors |
1977 |
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A People’s History of the United States: 1492–Present Harper & Rowe, 1980; multiple updates |
1980 |
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The Twentieth Century: A People’s History HarperCollins, 1984; updated 2003 |
1984 |
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Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology Harper Perennial, 1990 |
1990 |
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Failure to Quit: Reflections of an Optimistic Historian Common Courage Press, 1993; South End Press, 1999; Haymarket Books, 2013 |
1993 |
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You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times Beacon Press, 1994; 2002; 2018 |
1994 |
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The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy Seven Stories Press, 1997; updated in 2009 |
1997 |
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Marx in Soho: A Play on History South End Press, 1999; Haymarket Books, 2013 |
1999 |
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The Future of History Common Courage Press, 1999 |
1999 |
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La otra historia de los Estados Unidos Translated by Toni Strubel • Seven Stories Press, 2001; updated in 2011 |
2001 |
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Howard Zinn on History
Seven Stories Press, 2001; updated 2013 |
2001 |
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Howard Zinn on War
Seven Stories Press, 2001; updated 2013 |
2001 |
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Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor’s Last Century
Beacon Press, 2001 • With Dana Frank and Robin D. G. Kelley |
2001 |
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Terrorism and War
Seven Stories Press, 2002 |
2002 |
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Emma
South End Press, 2002; Haymarket Books, 2013 |
2002 |
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Artists in Times of War and Other Essays
Seven Stories Press, 2003 |
2003 |
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Passionate Declarations: Essays on War and Justice
HarperCollins, 2003 |
2003 |
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The People Speak: American Voices, Some Famous, Some Little Known
HarperCollins, 2004 |
2004 |
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Howard Zinn on Democratic Education
Paradigm Publishers, 2004 |
2004 |
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Voices of a People’s History of the United States
Harper Perennial, 2006 |
2004 |
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Original Zinn: Conversations on History and Politics
Harper Perennial, 2006 |
2006 |
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Just War
Charta/Distributed Art Publisher, 2006 |
2006 |
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A Power Governments Cannot Suppress
City Lights Publishers, 2007 |
2007 |
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The Unraveling of the Bush Presidency
Seven Stories Press, 2007 |
2007 |
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The State of the Union: Notes on an Obama Administration
Back Bay Books, 2009 |
2009 |
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Uncommon Sense from the Writings of Howard Zinn
Paradigm Publishers, 2009 |
2009 |
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The Bomb
City Lights Publishers, 2010 |
2010 |
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Three Plays: The Political Theater of Howard Zinn: Emma, Marx in Soho, Daughter of Venus
Beacon Press, 2010 |
2010 |
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Howard Zinn on Race
Seven Stories Press, 2011 |
2011 |
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The Other Civil War: Slavery and Struggle in Civil War America
HarperCollins, 2011 |
2011 |
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The Indispensable Zinn: The Essential Writings of the “People’s Historian”
The New Press, 2011 |
2011 |
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The Historic Unfulfilled Promise
City Lights Publishers, 2012 |
2012 |
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Howard Zinn Speaks: Collected Speeches 1963-2009
Haymarket Books, 2012 |
2012 |
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Some Truths Are Not Self-Evident: Essays in The Nation on Civil Rights, Vietnam, and “The War on Terror”
The Nation Company, 2014 |
2014 |
Related Works & Adaptations
The Nation
Current Nation subscribers can access these articles at The Nation Digital Archive, www.thenation.com/archive/ or through an institutional EBSCO subscription. Some of these articles have been published in books of collected essays.
| Title | Type | Date |
| Finishing School for Pickets | Article | August 6, 1960 |
| Democracy for Whom? | Review | February 25, 1960 |
| The Force of Nonviolence | Article | March 17, 1962 |
| Kennedy: The Reluctant Emancipator | Article | December 1, 1962 |
| SNCC: The Battle-Scarred Youngsters | Article | October 5, 1963 |
| Incident in Hattiesburg | Article | May 18, 1964 |
| Four Witness to a Mississippi Summer | Article | December 28, 1964 |
| The Wobbly Spirit | Review | April 5, 1965 |
| The New World: Fragments of the Old | Review | May 24, 1965 |
| The South Revisited | Article | September 20, 1965 |
| Vietnam: Setting the Moral Equation | Article | January 17, 1966 |
| The War Fans: ‘“Affirmation Vietnam” | Editorial | February 28, 1966 |
| Emancipation From Dogma: The Old Left and the New | Article | April 4, 1966 |
| Should Harlem ‘Secede’? | Review | September 5, 1966 |
| Vietnam: The Logic of Withdrawl | Article | February 6, 1967 |
| Three Prisoners: The Petty Route Home | Article | April 1, 1968 |
| Civil Disobedience: Moral or Not? | Review | December 2, 1968 |
| Society’s Best Students | Letter to the Editor | September 7, 1970 |
| By Way of Amends | Letter to the Editor | November 13, 1972 |
| A People’s Constitution: Some Truths Are Not Self-Evident | Article | August 1, 1987 |
| Is This Really a ‘Just War’? | Letter to the Editor | November 26, 2001 |
| The Others | Article | February 11, 2002 |
| How to Get Out of Iraq: A Forum | Article | May 24, 2004 |
| People’s History: No to War | Letter to the Editor | June 21, 2004 |
| Beyond the New Deal | Article | April 7, 2008 |
| A Big Government Bailout | Commentary | October 27, 2008 |
Boston Globe
Current Boston Globe subscribers can access these articles at the Boston Globe Archive, bostonglobe.newspapers.com. Some of these articles have been published in books of collected essays.
| Title | Type | Date |
| Why They Protest Against Viet Nam War: Don’t Call Students Communists | Op-ed | October 24, 1965 |
| “Drinan on war, peace, the church” – Book review of “Vietnam and Armageddon: Peace, War and the Christian Conscious” | Review | August 16, 1970 |
| Cries from a paradise lost – Book review of “Voices from the Plain of Jars” | Review | February 18, 1973 |
| Forked road of justice | Op-ed | December 6, 1974 |
| History writing changes | Left Field Stands Column | December 20, 1974 |
| When it comes to spending for national security . . . | Left Field Stands Column | January 17, 1975 |
| Ron Zeigler and freedom of speech | Op-ed | January 31, 1975 |
| When it comes to the big questions, ‘expertise’ falls flat | Left Field Stands Column | January 3, 1975 |
| Courage, ingenuity are unemployed | Left Field Stands Column | February 14, 1975 |
| Equality is the Point | Letter to Editor | February 25, 1975 |
| Why cut off utilities because of unpaid bills? | Left Field Stands Column | February 28, 1975 |
| State ignores law for prison reform and release of inmates into community | Left Field Stands Column | March 28, 1975 |
| Turning our backs on other revolutions | Left Field Stands Column | March 14, 1975 |
| Op-Ed: Children of Vietnam: … Helped bring war to an end | Op-Ed | April 12, 1975 |
| Four women of courage | Op-Ed | April 25, 1975 |
| Rent control and the housing shortage | Op-Ed | May 9, 1975 |
| The Politicized People’s Tour | Recommendation | May 18, 1975 |
| The Curious chronology of the Mayaguez incident | Op-Ed | May 23, 1975 |
| Is $100 billion for the Pentagon just another ‘protection racket?’ | Op-Ed | June 20, 1975 |
| The CIA, Rockerfeller and the boys in the club | Op-Ed | June 7, 1975 |
| The Brooklyn Bridge and the Spirit of the Fourth | Op-Ed | July 4, 1975 |
| Should Kissinger trow out the first ball . . . or go to showers? | Op-ed | July 18, 1975 |
| Why should we get upset? It will only be a small nuclear war! | Op-Ed | July 18, 1975 |
| A memory in an era of official murder | Op-Ed | August 22, 1975 |
| When will the long feud end? | Op-Ed | September 19, 1975 |
| Democracy on the Job | Op-Ed | October 3, 1975 |
| Defense: A source of Money | Op-Ed | October 17, 1975 |
| Some day, a winter without an eviction | Op-Ed | October 31, 1975 |
| Stay awake, America! S-1 is nibbling at liberty! | Op-Ed | November 14, 1975 |
| After the FBI and CIA secrets come out, very little will change | Op-Ed | December 2, 1975 |
| All take notice: eviction proceedings have begun against the planet Earth | Op-Ed | December 12, 1975 |
| Was Welch funeral used to divert nation from its real problems at home? | Op-Ed | January 9, 1976 |
| Who will be the first to mention the secret word? | Op-Ed | January 24, 1976 |
| What true socialism means to me | Op-Ed | February 7, 1976 |
| Government distrust grows | Op-Ed | February 20, 1976 |
| A true-false test about law and the Supreme Court | Op-Ed | March 5, 1976 |
| BU’s fired employees prove theyc an beat power structure by standing together | Op-Ed | March 19, 1976 |
| Presidents come and go, system remains | Op-Ed | April 2, 1976 |
| $113 billion for defense, but schools, elderly and the poor go begging | Op-Ed | April 16, 1976 |
| The ‘bloodbath’ in Vietnam just a myth | Op-Ed | May 3, 1976 |
| How much have Americans learned from US history? | Op-Ed | May 14, 1976 |
| Whom Will We Honor Memorial Day? | Op-Ed | June 2, 1976 |
The Progressive
Howard Zinn was featured extensively in The Progressive magazine between 1998 and 2010. We provide a list of columns and articles, and when available, links to read in full at either HowardZinn.org or progressive.org.
| Title | Type | Access at | Month | Year |
| The Massacres of History | Feature | Not online | August | 1998 |
| Private Ryan Saves War | Feature | HZ.org | October | 1998 |
| There Are Lies, and There Are Lies | Column | Not online | November | 1998 |
| Eugene V. Debs and the Idea of Socialism | Feature | Not online | January | 1999 |
| One Iraqi’s Story | Feature | Not online | February | 1999 |
| Big Government for Whom? | Column | Not online | April | 1999 |
| A Diplomatic Solution | Column | HZ.org | May | 1999 |
| Their Atrocities—and Ours | Column | HZ.org | July | 1999 |
| Words of Encouragement
aka “‘Inspire Please'” at ZComm |
Column | HZ.org | September | 1999 |
| Respecting the Holocaust
aka “A Larger Consciousness” at ZComm |
Column | HZ.org | November | 1999 |
| A Flash of the Possible | Column | HZ.org | January | 2000 |
| Delusion 2000: How the Candidates View the World | Feature | Not online | March | 2000 |
| One Radical Who Did It All | Column | HZ.org | April | 2000 |
| Unsung Heroes | Column | HZ.org | June | 2000 |
| The Bombs of August | Column | Not online | August | 2000 |
| A Campaign Without Class | Column | HZ.org | November | 2000 |
| Disputed Elections, Concealed Facts
aka “Tennis on the Titanic” at ZComm |
Column | HZ.org | February | 2001 |
| Artists of Resistance | Column | Not online | July | 2001 |
| The Greatest Generation? | Column | HZ.org | October | 2001 |
| Remembering 9/11: Howard Zinn on the “The Old Way of Thinking” | Column | HZ.org | November | 2001 |
| A Just Cause, Not a Just War | Column | HZ.org | December | 2001 |
| Operation Enduring War | Column | HZ.org | March | 2002 |
| A Break-in for Peace | Column | HZ.org | July | 2002 |
| U.S. Attack on Iraq Would Violate International Law | Column | Progressive.org | August | 2002 |
| What War Looks Like | Column | HZ.org | October | 2002 |
| On Veterans Day, a former bombardier’s reflections on war | Column | Progressive.org | November | 2002 |
| The Toll of War | Column | HZ.org | December | 2002 |
| Our Job is a Simple One: Stop Them | Column | HZ.org | December | 2002 |
| A Holy Outlaw | Column | HZ.org | February | 2003 |
| A Chorus Against the War | Feature | Progressive.org | March | 2003 |
| Dying for the Government | Column | HZ.org | June | 2003 |
| With War in Iraq, Echoes of Vietnam Can Still Be Heard | Column | Progressive.org | July | 2003 |
| Humpty Dumpty Will Fall | Column | HZ.org | August | 2003 |
| An Occupied Country | Column | HZ.org | October | 2003 |
| The Logic of Withdrawal | Column | HZ.org | January | 2004 |
| The Ultimate Betrayal to Our Soldiers Would Be to Forget | Feature | HZ.org | April | 2004 |
| Opposing the War Party | Column | HZ.org | May | 2004 |
| What Do We Do Now? | Column | HZ.org | June | 2004 |
| Dissent at the War Memorial | Column | HZ.org | August | 2004 |
| Kerry Should Walk Away from Iraq | Op-ed | Progressive.org | September | 2004 |
| Our War on Terrorism | Column | HZ.org | November | 2004 |
| Harness That Anger | Column | HZ.org | Janaury | 2005 |
| U.S. Must Withdraw from Iraq | Op-Ed | Progressive | January | 2005 |
| Changing Minds, One at a Time | Column | HZ.org | March | 2005 |
| Memorial Day: honor those seeking peace | Op-ed | Progressive.org | May | 2005 |
| The Scourge of Nationalism | Column | HZ.org | June | 2005 |
| A Surgeon’s Touch | Column | Progressive.org | September | 2005 |
| Don’t Despair About the Supreme Court | Column | HZ.org | October | 2005 |
| It’s not Up to the Court | Column | Not online | November | 2005 |
| After the War | Column | HZ.org | January | 2006 |
| Lessons of Iraq War Start with U.S. History | Column | HZ.org | March | 2006 |
| America’s Blinders | Feature | HZ.org | April | 2006 |
| Howard Zinn on The Uses of History and the War on Terrorism | Op-ed | Progressive.org | December | 2006 |
| Put Away the Flags | Column | HZ.org | July | 2006 |
| No Human Being Is Illegal | Column | HZ.org | July | 2006 |
| Howard Zinn’s July 4th Wisdom | Column | Progressive | July | 2006 |
| Why Wars Fail | Column | Not online | November | 2006 |
| We Need “People’s Impeachment Hearings” across U.S. | Op-ed | Progressive | January | 2007 |
| Impeachment by the People | Feature | HZ.org | February | 2007 |
| Are We Politicians or Citizens? | Column | HZ.org | May | 2007 |
| Kurt Vonnegut Remembered | Column | Not online | June | 2007 |
| Our Favorite Books | Review | Not online | December | 2007 |
| Let’s Come to Our Senses About the Election | Column | HZ.org | March | 2008 |
| Election Madness | Column | HZ.org | March | 2008 |
| Howard Zinn Defends Studs Terkel from Red-Baiting in the Times | Column | HZ.org | November | 2008 |
| The Obama Difference | Column | HZ.org | October | 2008 |
| Changing Obama’s Mindset | Feature | HZ.org | May | 2009 |
| Untold Truths About the American Revolution | Column | HZ.org | July | 2009 |
| A Just Cause ≠ a Just War | Feature | Not Online | July | 2009 |
| Nobel’s Feeble Gesture | Column | Not online | Dec/Jan | 2009/ 2010 |
Interviews and Tributes to Howard Zinn
| Title | Author | Month | Year |
| Outside the Classroom: An Interview with Howard Zinn (excerpt) | David Barsamian | July | 1997 |
| Distilled Zinn | Editors | March | 2010 |
| Thank you, Howard | Matthew Rothschild | March | 2010 |
ZCommunications
Howard Zinn’s columns were part of ZCommunications Daily Commentaries Series. The following are published on the HowardZinn.org website.
| Title | Month | Year |
| Je Ne Suis Pas Un Marxiste’ | June | 1998 |
| On Getting Along | March | 1999 |
| Whose Atrocity is Bigger? | May | 1999 |
| ‘Inspire Please…’ | July | 1999 |
| Beyond the Soviet Union | September | 1999 |
| A Larger Consciousness | October | 1999 |
| On Rewarding People for Talents and Hard Work | November | 1999 |
| Seattle | December | 1999 |
| Notes for a Gathering | January | 2000 |
| Sender Garlin | March | 2000 |
| The Heroes Around Us | May | 2000 |
| A Fourth of July Commentary | July | 2000 |
| Downfall | August | 2000 |
| A Campaign Without Class | September | 2000 |
| Tennis on the Titanic | December | 2000 |
| Veterans Day | November | 2002 |
| Victory? | July | 2003 |
| An Occupied Country | September | 2003 |
| Of Paradise and Power | February | 2004 |
| The Optimism of Uncertainty | September | 2004 |
| Antiwar Talk at the Boston Commons | March | 2007 |
| Sacco and Vanzetti | April | 2007 |
| Are Hillary and Obama Afraid of Talking About the New Deal? | April | 2008 |
Howard Zinn Interviews
| Title | Interview By | Month | Year |
| Zinn on Growing Up, Objectivity, Bombing, Media, Genocide, and Propaganda | David Barsamian | November | 2002 |
| An Interview with Howard Zinn | Shelly R. Fredman | May | 2006 |
| The Citizens Among Us | Gabriel Matthew Schivone | August | 2008 |
Other Outlets
Links provided where possible to access the articles. In some cases, you may need a subscription to read. Let us know if there are other articles or outlets to add.
| Title | Outlet | Date |
| The Great Refusal: Community and Organization in the New Left, 1962–1968 (Book Review) | Boston Review | April 1983 |
| The Power and the Glory: Myths of American Exceptionalism | Boston Review | July 2, 2012 |
| Scare Words Leave Scars on Every One | Newsday | Jan 22, 1989 |
| Will Mass. Dems Pick an Anti-Democrat? Opposed to much of what the party nominally stands for, Bston U’s president wants its nod for governor. | Newsday | July 27 1990 |
| So We Defeat Saddam Hussein — So What? | Newsday | Feb 12, 1991 |
| A Kinder, Gentler Patriotism | Newsday | Apr 13, 2003 |
| Check the Facts Before Rushing to War | Newsday | Apr 14, 2004 |
| Kerry Must Become the New Anti-war Candidate | Newsday | September 17, 2004 |
| How Can America Get out of Iraq? | The Guardian | May 12, 2004 |
| It Is Not Only Iraq That Is Occupied. America Is Too | The Guardian | Aug 11, 2005 |
| From Empire to Democracy | The Guardian | Oct 2, 2008 |
| War and Peace Prizes | The Guardian | Oct 10, 2009 |








































