Promote material about Howard Zinn (1922–2010) to 21st century historians, scholars, & activists. Managed by http://HowardZinn.org • http://facebook.com/howardzinnhttps://bsky.app/profile/zinndigital.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/zinndigital.bsky.social/post/3muwyaqywb22r"[Utah Phillips & Ani DiFranco] remind us of a history that we were not taught in our schools…. They tell us of people, who like us, seemed to be powerless before the might of corporations, but who struggled & fought back, and changed their lives."—Howard Zinn MORE https://www.howardzinn.org/collection/fellow-workers/07 Sep 2026 17:00 +0000at://did:plc:uiikier6yuvgguk2rtcogptv/app.bsky.feed.post/3muwyaqywb22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/zinndigital.bsky.social/post/3muumkjxmls25🔉If you missed the newsletter, check out these updates: BOOKS The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn + tour SNCC: The New Abolitionists EVENTS 9/28 Teach the Black Freedom Struggle classes start 11/05 Voices of PH at Lincoln Center 12/06 Howard Zinn Book Fair More ➡️ bit.ly/hzs2606 Sep 2026 18:25 +0000at://did:plc:uiikier6yuvgguk2rtcogptv/app.bsky.feed.post/3muumkjxmls25https://bsky.app/profile/zinndigital.bsky.social/post/3ms7b2mwa6s2fCheck out this interview with Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social and his new biography on Howard Zinn! [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Aug 2026 19:43 +0000at://did:plc:uiikier6yuvgguk2rtcogptv/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms7b2mwa6s2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/zinndigital.bsky.social/post/3mla2wvet4c2s"Books That Define a Nation" @harpercollins.bsky.social released a special edition of “A People’s History,” part of New American Classics series that incl. books by Zora Neale Hurston, Rachel Carson, Ursula K. Le Guin, bell hooks, Nikki Giovanni, Imani Perry +more! https://www.howardzinn.org/people-history-new-edition-2026/07 May 2026 01:30 +0000at://did:plc:uiikier6yuvgguk2rtcogptv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mla2wvet4c2shttps://bsky.app/profile/zinndigital.bsky.social/post/3mjxhxas5vs26April 20, 1914 marks the anniversary of the Ludlow Massacre. Howard Zinn: "The culminating act of perhaps the most violent struggle between corporate power and laboring men in American history. Despite 5K pages of testimony...it remains an obscure event..." 📽️ & 📖 https://www.howardzinn.org/collection/labor-day-history-ludlow-massacre/20 Apr 2026 22:04 +0000at://did:plc:uiikier6yuvgguk2rtcogptv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjxhxas5vs26https://bsky.app/profile/zinndigital.bsky.social/post/3mdgkl5vokk2zOn the anniversary of Howard Zinn's death in 2010, we share updates about forthcoming books, a new film, online classes, booth displays, performances, and events that carry forward Zinn’s legacy of activism. More in the newsletter sent 2-4x/year. Subscribe at www.howardzinn.org/contact-sign-up/27 Jan 2026 20:04 +0000at://did:plc:uiikier6yuvgguk2rtcogptv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdgkl5vokk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/zinndigital.bsky.social/post/3m6zd2jfh4c22PEOPLE'S HISTORY in the DIGITAL AGE: If you're at the Nat'l Council for the Social Studies conf Dec. 5-6, stop by! This booth features HowardZinn.org + 11 groups w/ digital collections of the voices & histories missing from mainstream history. Swag + photo exhibit! https://www.howardzinn.org/peoples-history-in-the-digital-age-ncss-2025-booth/02 Dec 2025 16:04 +0000at://did:plc:uiikier6yuvgguk2rtcogptv/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6zd2jfh4c22https://bsky.app/profile/zinndigital.bsky.social/post/3lxd2bi6a5k2w“‘There are certain historical moments when learning is more compressed and intense than others,’ wrote Howard Zinn, a month after 9/11. The historian was writing in a moment of tremendous, escalating violence, and he sensed more death & destruction looming.”–James Folta https://lithub.com/why-you-should-read-howard-zinns-artists-in-times-of-war-now26 Aug 2025 17:32 +0000at://did:plc:uiikier6yuvgguk2rtcogptv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxd2bi6a5k2whttps://bsky.app/profile/zinndigital.bsky.social/post/3lx3oicj3pc2dKicking off Monday: A new series of @zinnedproject.bsky.social “Teach the Black Freedom Struggle” online classes. Events are free. ASL interpretation provided. Learn more & sign up: https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/teach-black-freedom-struggle-classes Join our email list for more news: https://www.howardzinn.org/contact-sign-up/23 Aug 2025 19:13 +0000at://did:plc:uiikier6yuvgguk2rtcogptv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lx3oicj3pc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/zinndigital.bsky.social/post/3lwyym5n4ms2yCheck out the 2025–2026 schedule of Voices of a People’s History performances. More news & events in our newsletter. Subscribe at: https://www.howardzinn.org/contact-sign-up/ https://www.howardzinn.org/voices-performances-2025-2026/22 Aug 2025 17:36 +0000at://did:plc:uiikier6yuvgguk2rtcogptv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwyym5n4ms2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/zinndigital.bsky.social/post/3lwwxic3dos2t"When A People’s History of the U.S. came out, it literally rocked the boat. Instead of starting where most histories of the Americas start—on the deck of Columbus’s ship—Howard Zinn flipped the script, focusing on what the people standing on the shore would have seen"–BklynPLibrary bit.ly/brp-zinn https://www.howardzinn.org/the-legacy-of-howard-zinns-radical-history/21 Aug 2025 22:10 +0000at://did:plc:uiikier6yuvgguk2rtcogptv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwwxic3dos2thttps://bsky.app/profile/zinndigital.bsky.social/post/3lws3jtklck2zLooking forward to the new Howard Zinn biography from Dave Zirin (@edgeofsports.bsky.social) due next summer! -- Stay up to date about all the Zinn-related news & events by joining the email list (emails sent 2-4x/year): https://www.howardzinn.org/contact-sign-up/ [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Aug 2025 23:39 +0000at://did:plc:uiikier6yuvgguk2rtcogptv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lws3jtklck2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/zinndigital.bsky.social/post/3lvqeghmk4223Aug 6 & 9 mark the anniversary of the Hiroshima & Nagasaki bombings. In THE BOMB, Howard Zinn offers his reflections & political analysis of these events, & how they transformed him from an order-taking WWII bombardier to an anti-authoritarian, anti-war historian. https://www.howardzinn.org/collection/the-bomb/06 Aug 2025 13:48 +0000at://did:plc:uiikier6yuvgguk2rtcogptv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvqeghmk4223https://bsky.app/profile/zinndigital.bsky.social/post/3lt5sin6z6k27"Whenever injustices have been remedied, wars halted, women & Black people & Native American given their due, it has been because 'unimportant' people spoke up, organized, protested, and brought democracy alive"–Howard Zinn 📖 https://www.howardzinn.org/collection/voices-of-a-peoples-history-book/ 📺 https://www.howardzinn.org/collection/the-people-speak/04 Jul 2025 17:49 +0000at://did:plc:uiikier6yuvgguk2rtcogptv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lt5sin6z6k27https://bsky.app/profile/zinndigital.bsky.social/post/3lt5o2makvs2h"The Declaration...says that government is not sacred, that it is set up to give people an equal right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and that if it fails to do this, we have the right to 'alter or abolish it.'"– Howard Zinn, July 4, 1975 https://www.howardzinn.org/collection/spirit-of-rebellion/04 Jul 2025 16:29 +0000at://did:plc:uiikier6yuvgguk2rtcogptv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lt5o2makvs2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/zinndigital.bsky.social/post/3lj4bozrsf22sFROM THE ARCHIVES "A Few Cryptic Notes on Power and Powerlessness" by Howard Zinn, 1976 Powers of the Powerless: (the political counterpart of guerrilla tactics) 1. Sheer numbers can be hard to control, especially with dispersal. 2. Organization of energy can make up for lack of resources. 🧵1/526 Feb 2025 21:04 +0000at://did:plc:uiikier6yuvgguk2rtcogptv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lj4bozrsf22shttps://bsky.app/profile/zinndigital.bsky.social/post/3lgqlccdfm22dToday, Jan. 27, marks the 15th anniversary of Howard Zinn's death. Learn how historian, researchers, and activists are keeping Zinn's spirit alive. Subscribe to the newsletter (conta.cc/3E5WEbp) at www.howardzinn.org/contact-sign-up/27 Jan 2025 18:33 +0000at://did:plc:uiikier6yuvgguk2rtcogptv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgqlccdfm22d