What is Howard Zinn?
[[File:Howard Zinn at lectern.jpg|right|thumb|Howard Zinn speaking in 2009]] '''Howard Zinn''' (August 24, 1922 – January 27, 2010) was an American [[historian]] and [[professor]] from [[Brooklyn]], [[New York City|New York]]. Zinn considered himself to be a radical.<ref>{{Cite web |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/30/opinion/30herbert.html?_r=1 |title=Op-Ed Columnist - A Radical Treasure - NYTimes.com |work=nytimes.com |accessdate=December 17, 2010 }}</ref> In 1980 he wrote ''A People's History of the United States'', which is a book that tells the [[history of the United States]] from the [[Perspective (cognitive)|perspective]] of common people instead of people who were in power. This included people who were [[oppression|oppressed]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.wmich.edu/dialogues/texts/apeopleshistory.html |title=A People's History of the United States |work=wmich.edu |accessdate=December 17, 2010 |archive-date=October 14, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101014170006/http://www.wmich.edu/dialogues/texts/apeopleshistory.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> As of the time of Zinn's death, the book had sold almost two million copies.<ref>{{Cite web |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/28/us/28zinn.html |title=Howard Zinn, Historian, Dies at 87 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com |work=nytimes.com |accessdate=December 17, 2010 }}</ref> Zinn died of a [[heart attack]] while swimming on January 27, 2010 in [[Santa Monica, California]], aged 87. ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Zinn, Howard}} [[Category:Writers from New York City]] [[Category:Democratic socialists]] [[Category:American playwrights]] [[Category:American socialists]] [[Category:American activists]] [[Category:Deaths from myocardial infarction]] [[Category:Deaths by drowning]] [[Category:American historians]] [[Category:1922 births]] [[Category:2010 deaths]]