Why is this project named after Howard Zinn?
The Zinn Education Project was inspired by a scene from the documentary You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train, in which Howard Zinn is speaking to high school students in Chicago about American history, and by a donor’s own experience of having Zinn as a professor. The donor wanted to honor Howard Zinn’s extraordinary contributions to the field of promoting “a people’s history,” and in particular his book A People’s History of the United States, which has sold almost 2 million copies and has been translated into many languages. Through this project we also seek to highlight the many resources on people’s history – including those published before and after A People’s History of the United States.
