Audio Archives - Howard Zinn

Howard Zinn Archives at Alternative Radio

Collection. Alternative Radio. 1960s-2009.
An archive of more than 50 talks and interviews by Howard Zinn at Alternative Radio.

The People’s History Project

Talks by Howard Zinn. AK Press. 2004.
A box set of four previous released talks with a 24-page booklet with an introduction by Noam Chomsky and a preface by Arundhati Roy.

1492-1992: The Legacy of Columbus

Talk by Howard Zinn. PM Press. 2011.
Howard Zinn returns to the themes he popularized in his masterful A People’s History of the United States—how we interpret history, and what that tells us about the struggles of the vast majority of folks typically written out of the narrative.

War and Civil Disobedience

Talk by Howard Zinn.PM Press. 2010.
Delivered in the context of the current U.S. war in Iraq, Howard Zinn passes on stories of civil disobedience to the unjust wars of U.S. history.

Artists in a Time of War (Audio)

Talk by Howard Zinn. AK Press. 2002.
Recorded a month after 9/11, America’s finest social historian examines the role, and response, of artists in society, and particularly, during wartime.

Stories Hollywood Never Tells

Talk by Howard Zinn. AK Press. 2001.
In this informal talk given at the Taos Film Festival, Howard Zinn turns his attention to Hollywood, the stories it tells, and the ones it doesn’t.

Heroes And Martyrs: Emma Goldman, Sacco & Vanzetti, and the Revolutionary Struggle

Talk by Howard Zinn. AK Press, 2001.
Focused on the era of the Industrial Revoluation, Howard Zinn focuses on the organizers and agitators in the laboring and immigrant communities including Ben Reitman, Alexander Berkman, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, and Emma Goldman.

A People’s History of the United States: A Lecture at Reed College

Talk by Howard Zinn. AK Press, 2001.
Howard Zinn explains with great humor and passion how his teaching, his history, and his activism are parts of the same project.