Howard Zinn
August 24, 1922 – January 27, 2010

Keynote speaker Howard Zinn at HAW's first national conference

Howard Zinn died on January 27, 2010, of a heart attack while visiting in California. He was 87. Howard was a near-icon among anti-war historians, and HAW was proud to have him as a keynote speaker at our first national conference, in Austin, Texas in February 2006. We join his legion of friends and admirers worldwide who will miss his eloquent and principled voice.

• Daniel Ellsberg, A Memory of Howard (Truthdig)
• Alice Walker, Saying goodbye to my friend Howard Zinn (Boston Globe)
• Howard Zinn, historian who challenged status quo, dies at 87 (Boston Globe)
• Howard Zinn, author of 'People's History' and left-wing historian, dies at 87 in California (LA Times)
• Howard Zinn, Historian, Dies at 87 (New York Times)
• Bob Herbert, A Radical Treasure (New York Times)
• Howard Zinn (Democracy Now)
• Howard Zinn, anarchist historian dies at 87 (Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Society)
• Pillarisetti Sudhir, Howard Zinn, Paradigmatic People’s Historian, Dies at 87 (American Historian Society)
• and many more at http://www.howardzinn.org/

Memorials (Please email any memorials for this webpage to marc@yachana.org)

• Arnold A. Offner, "Howard Zinn was a signal colleague of mine for twenty-three years at Boston University..."
• John J. Fitzgerald, "Thoughts on Howard Zinn..."
• Roger Leisner, "Radio Free Maine recordings..."
• William Loren Katz, "Of Howard Zinn and other heroes..."
• Kermit Eby, "Howard visited Naperville North twice..."
• Robert Howard Whealey, "I was inspired by Zinn's pacifism and courage in speaking out..."
• Henry Bolter, "I first met Howie and Roz when they were my tenants..."
• Edrene S. McKay, "Howard Zinn has inspired generations of students..."
• Armen Baghdoyan, "The revolutionary movement has lost an untiring activist and intellectual..."
• Davis Joyce, "Thank you for your life and your work..."
• Jeffrey Kerr-Ritchie, "I always appreciated his insistence on the radical nature of America's past..."
• Staughton Lynd, "The most remarkable thing about Howard as an academician was that he was always concerned to speak, not to other academicians, but to the general public..."
• Henry Maar, "A simple paper for a graduate seminar turned into so much more..."
• Cyrus Bina, "We have lost a towering figure of remarkable quality..."
• Rosalyn Baxandall, "Tennis game..."
• Scott Satterwhite, "Zinn changed my impression of academia..."
• Candace Falk, "A tribute from the Emma Goldman Papers..."
  

To add your own memories to this page, send them to marc@yachana.org.