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\u03a0\u03b7\u03b3\u03ae: The New York Times

Howard Zinn, Historian, Dies at 87 <\/a><\/p>\n

Howard Zinn, an author, teacher and political activist whose book \u201cA People\u2019s History of the United States\u201d<\/a> became a million-selling leftist alternative to mainstream texts, died Wednesday in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 87 and lived in Auburndale, Mass.<\/p>\n

The cause was a heart attack, his daughter Myla Kabat-Zinn said. <\/p>\n

Published in 1980 with little promotion and a first printing of 5,000, \u201cA People\u2019s History\u201d was, fittingly, a people\u2019s best-seller, attracting a wide audience through word of mouth and reaching 1 million sales in 2003. Although Professor Zinn was writing for a general readership, his book was taught in high schools and colleges throughout the country, and numerous companion editions were published, including \u201cVoices of a People\u2019s History,\u201d a volume for young people and a graphic novel.<\/p>\n

\u201cA People\u2019s History\u201d told an openly left-wing story. Professor Zinn accused <\/a>Christopher Columbus and other explorers of committing genocide, picked apart presidents from Andrew Jackson to Franklin D. Roosevelt and celebrated workers, feminists and war resisters.<\/p>\n

Even liberal historians were uneasy with Professor Zinn, who taught for many years at Boston University. Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. once said: \u201cI know he regards me as a dangerous reactionary. And I don\u2019t take him very seriously. He\u2019s a polemicist, not a historian.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a 1998 interview with The Associated Press, Professor Zinn acknowledged that he was not trying to write an objective history, or a complete one. He called his book a response to traditional works, the first chapter, not the last, of a new kind of history.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no such thing as a whole story; every story is incomplete,\u201d Professor Zinn said. \u201cMy idea was the orthodox viewpoint has already been done a thousand times.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cA People\u2019s History\u201d had some famous admirers, including the actors Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. The two grew up near Professor Zinn, were family friends and gave the book a plug in their Academy Award-winning screenplay for \u201cGood Will Hunting.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/a>Oliver Stone was a fan, as was Bruce Springsteen, whose bleak \u201cNebraska\u201d album was inspired in part by \u201cA People\u2019s History.\u201d The book was the basis of a 2007 documentary, \u201cProfit Motive and the Whispering Wind,\u201d and even showed up on \u201cThe Sopranos,\u201d in the hand of Tony\u2019s son, A.J.<\/p>\n

Professor Zinn himself was an impressive-looking man, tall and rugged with wavy hair. An experienced public speaker, he was modest and engaging in person, more interested in persuasion than in confrontation.<\/p>\n

Born in New York in 1922, Professor Zinn was the son of Jewish immigrants who as a child lived in a rundown area in Brooklyn and responded strongly to the novels of Charles Dickens. At age 17, urged on by some young Communists in his neighborhood, he attended a political rally in Times Square.<\/p>\n

\u201cSuddenly, I heard the sirens sound, and I looked around and saw the policemen on horses galloping into the crowd and beating people,\u201d he told The A.P. \u201cI couldn\u2019t believe that.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then I was hit. I turned around and I was knocked unconscious. I woke up sometime later in a doorway, with Times Square quiet again, eerie, dreamlike, as if nothing had transpired. I was ferociously indignant.\u201d<\/p>\n

War continued his education. Eager to help wipe out the Nazis, he joined the Army Air Corps in 1943 and even persuaded the local draft board to let him mail his own induction notice. He flew missions throughout Europe, receiving an Air Medal, but he found himself questioning what it all meant. Back home, he gathered his medals and papers, put them in a folder and wrote on top: \u201cNever again.\u201d<\/p>\n

He attended New York University and Columbia University, where he received a doctorate in history. In 1956, he was offered the chairmanship of the history and social sciences department at Spelman College, an all-black women\u2019s school in segregated Atlanta.During the civil rights movement, Professor Zinn encouraged his students to request books from the segregated public libraries and helped coordinate sit-ins at downtown cafeterias. He also published several articles, including a rare attack on the Kennedy administration, accusing it of being too slow to protect blacks.He was loved by students \u2014 among them a young Alice Walker, wh<\/p>\n

o later wrote \u201cThe Color Purple\u201d \u2014 but not by administrators. In 1963, Spelman fired him for \u201cinsubordination.\u201d (Professor Zinn was a critic of the school\u2019s non-participation in the civil rights movement.) His years at Boston University were marked by opposition to the Vietnam War and by feuds with the school\u2019s president, John Silber.<\/p>\n

Professor Zinn retired in 1988, spending his last day of class on the picket line with students in support of an on-campus nurses\u2019 strike. Over the years, he continued to lecture at schools and to appear at rallies and on picket lines.<\/p>\n

Besides \u201cA People\u2019s History,\u201d he wrote several books, including \u201cThe Southern Mystique,\u201d \u201cLaGuardia in Congress\u201d and the memoir \u201cYou Can\u2019t Be Neutral on a Moving Train,\u201d the title of a 2004 documentary about Professor Zinn that Mr. Damon narrated. He also wrote three plays.<\/p>\n

His wife and longtime collaborator, Roslyn, died in 2008. They had two children, Myla and Jeff.<\/p>\n

One of Professor Zinn\u2019s last public writings was a brief essay, published last week in The Nation, about the first year of the Obama administration.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been searching hard for a highlight,\u201d he wrote, adding that he wasn\u2019t disappointed because he never expected a lot from President Obama.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think people are dazzled by Obama\u2019s rhetoric, and that people ought to begin to understand that Obama is going to be a mediocre president \u2014 which means, in our time, a dangerous president \u2014 unless there is some national movement to push him in a better direction.\u201d<\/p>\n

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