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
Title and Publishers | Year | |
LaGuardia in Congress Cornell University Press, 1959; Fall Creek Books, 2010 |
1959 | |
The Southern Mystique
Knopf 1959; Touchstone 1972; South End Press, 2002; Haymarket Books, 2013 |
1959 | |
SNCC: The New Abolitionists Beacon Press, 1964; South End Press, 2002; Haymarket Books, 2013 |
1964 | |
Vietnam: The Logic of Withdrawal Beacon Press, 1967; South End Press, 2002; Haymarket Books, 2013 |
1967 | |
Disobedience and Democracy: Nine Fallacies on Law and Order Vintage, 1968; South End Press, 2002; Haymarket Books, 2013 |
1968 | |
The Politics of History Beacon Press, 1970; University of Illinois Press, 1990 |
1970 | |
Postwar America: 1945–1971
Bobbs-Merrill, 1973; South End Press, 2002; Haymarket Books, 2013 |
1973 | |
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 | |
A People’s History of the United States: 1492–Present Harper & Rowe, 1980; multiple updates |
1980 | |
The Twentieth Century: A People’s History HarperCollins, 1984; updated 2003 |
1984 | |
Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology Harper Perennial, 1990 |
1990 | |
Failure to Quit: Reflections of an Optimistic Historian Common Courage Press, 1993; South End Press, 1999; Haymarket Books, 2013 |
1993 | |
You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times Beacon Press, 1994; 2002; 2018 |
1994 | |
The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy Seven Stories Press, 1997; updated in 2009 |
1997 | |
Marx in Soho: A Play on History South End Press, 1999; Haymarket Books, 2013 |
1999 | |
The Future of History Common Courage Press, 1999 |
1999 | |
La otra historia de los Estados Unidos Translated by Toni Strubel • Seven Stories Press, 2001; updated in 2011 |
2001 | |
Howard Zinn on History
Seven Stories Press, 2001; updated 2013 |
2001 | |
Howard Zinn on War
Seven Stories Press, 2001; updated 2013 |
2001 | |
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 | |
Terrorism and War
Seven Stories Press, 2002 |
2002 | |
Emma
South End Press, 2002; Haymarket Books, 2013 |
2002 | |
Artists in Times of War and Other Essays
Seven Stories Press, 2003 |
2003 | |
Passionate Declarations: Essays on War and Justice
HarperCollins, 2003 |
2003 | |
The People Speak: American Voices, Some Famous, Some Little Known
HarperCollins, 2004 |
2004 | |
Howard Zinn on Democratic Education
Paradigm Publishers, 2004 |
2004 | |
Voices of a People’s History of the United States
Harper Perennial, 2006 |
2004 | |
Original Zinn: Conversations on History and Politics
Harper Perennial, 2006 |
2006 | |
Just War
Charta/Distributed Art Publisher, 2006 |
2006 | |
A Power Governments Cannot Suppress
City Lights Publishers, 2007 |
2007 | |
The Unraveling of the Bush Presidency
Seven Stories Press, 2007 |
2007 | |
The State of the Union: Notes on an Obama Administration
Back Bay Books, 2009 |
2009 | |
Uncommon Sense from the Writings of Howard Zinn
Paradigm Publishers, 2009 |
2009 | |
The Bomb
City Lights Publishers, 2010 |
2010 | |
Three Plays: The Political Theater of Howard Zinn: Emma, Marx in Soho, Daughter of Venus
Beacon Press, 2010 |
2010 | |
Howard Zinn on Race
Seven Stories Press, 2011 |
2011 | |
The Other Civil War: Slavery and Struggle in Civil War America
HarperCollins, 2011 |
2011 | |
The Indispensable Zinn: The Essential Writings of the “People’s Historian”
The New Press, 2011 |
2011 | |
The Historic Unfulfilled Promise
City Lights Publishers, 2012 |
2012 | |
Howard Zinn Speaks: Collected Speeches 1963-2009
Haymarket Books, 2012 |
2012 | |
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 |