As Katie Pavlich pointed out, Boston University is the alma mater of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who majored in international studies and economics—or international socialism. Ocasio-Cortez’s attendance ...

Howard Zinn’s 100th birthday celebration was August 24. Even though he died in 2010, I decided to hold a séance to find out how he is doing and ask him some questions. As one admirer wrote, Zinn was ...

I discovered the valuable and necessary work of Howard Zinn during my junior year of high school. My history teacher—a man dedicated to pedagogical excellence who is now the principal of my alma mater ...

Historian Howard Zinn had no intention of sugar-coating his message to students Friday night. "We cannot depend on the leaders of the United States to stop a war that is killing several million people ...

Civil rights activist, historian, writer, playwright and Boston University Professor Emeritus Howard Zinn will give a lecture titled ‘Bringing Democracy Alive,’ this afternoon at 4 p.m. on the ninth ...

Boston University Professor Emeritus Howard Zinn claimed there were several fallacies in the democratic system, including the idea that American democracy is based on a wholly legitimate constitution ...

response, for patriotism, for one president’s campaign for justice. But when looked at as a moment in history, says author and historian Howard Zinn, Sept. 11 has a very different meaning. “Americans ...

Ten years ago, on January 27, 2010, activist historian Howard Zinn died. I never met him, but his death felt like losing a family member. If you had told me on that mournful day that a decade later ...