Howard Zinn (1922–2010)
Autor de La otra historia de los Estados Unidos
Sobre El Autor
A committed radical historian and activist, Howard Zinn approaches the study of the past from the point of view of those whom he feels have been exploited by the powerful. Zinn was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1922. After working in local shipyards during his teens, he joined the U.S. Army Air mostrar más Force, where he saw combat as a bombardier in World War II. He received a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University in 1958 and was a postdoctoral fellow in East Asian studies at Harvard University. While teaching at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, Zinn joined the civil rights movement and wrote The Southern Mystique (1964) and SNCC: The New Abolitionists (1964). He also became an outspoken critic of the Vietnam War, writing Vietnam: The Logic of Withdrawal (1967) and visiting Hanoi to receive the first American prisoners released by the North Vietnamese. Zinn's best-known and most-praised work, as well as his most controversial, is A People's History of the United States (1980). It explores American history under the thesis that most historians have favored those in power, leaving another story untold. Zinn discusses such topics as Native American views of Columbus and the socialist and anarchist opposition to World War I in examining his theory that historical change is most often due to "mass movements of ordinary people." Zinn's other books include You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times (1995) and Artists in Times of War (2004). He has also written the plays Emma (1976), Daughter of Venus (1985), and Marx in Soho (1999). (Bowker Author Biography) Howard Zinn grew up in the immigrant slums of Brooklyn, where he worked in shipyards in his late teens. He saw combat duty as an air force bombardier in World War II, and afterward received his doctorate in history from Columbia University. His first book, "La Guardia in Congress", was an Albert Beveridge Prize winner. In 1956, he moved with his wife and children to Atlanta to become chairman of the history department of Spelman College. He has since written and edited many more books, including A People's History of the United States, SNCC: The New Abolitionist; Disobedience and Democracy; The Politics of History; The Pentagon Papers: Critical Essays; You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times; and The Zinn Reader (Seven Stories Press, 1997). Zinn is also the author of three plays, Emma, Daughter of Venus, and Marx in Soho. Among the many honors Zinn has received is the 1998 Lannan Literary Award for nonfiction. A professor emeritus of political science at Boston University, he lives with his wife, Roslyn, in the Boston area, near their children and grandchildren. (Publisher Provided) mostrar menos
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Obras de Howard Zinn
A Young People's History of the United States, Volume 1: Columbus to the Spanish-American War (2009) 148 copias
A Young People's History of the United States, Volume 2: Class Struggle to the War on Terror (2007) 127 copias
Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century (2001) 86 copias
A People's History of the United States, Abridged Teaching Edition, Updated Edition (2003) 74 copias
A People's History of the United States, Vol. 2: The Civil War to the Present, Teaching Edition (2003) 32 copias
Three Plays: The Political Theater of Howard Zinn: Emma, Marx in Soho, Daughter of Venus (2010) 29 copias
A People's History of the United States, Vol. 1: American Beginnings to Reconstruction, Teaching Edition (2003) 26 copias
Estados Unidos. Por qué tener esperanzas en tiempos difíciles (Sediciones) (Spanish Edition) (1998) 1 copia
The Conspiracy of Law 1 copia
The New Abolitionists: SNCC 1 copia
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Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Zinn, Howard
- Nombre legal
- Zinn, Howard
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1922-08-24
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2010-01-27
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Santa Monica, California, USA
- Causa de fallecimiento
- heart attack
- Lugares de residencia
- Newton, Massachusetts, USA
Auburndale, Massachusetts, USA - Educación
- New York University (BA|1951)
Columbia University (MA|1952|PhD|1958) - Ocupaciones
- historian
university professor
political activist - Relaciones
- Zinn, Jeff (son)
- Organizaciones
- Spelman College
Boston University
U.S. Army Air Corps - Premios y honores
- Thomas Merton Award
Eugene V. Debs Award
Lannan Literary Award (Nonfiction, 1998)
Upton Sinclair Award (1999)
Haven's Center Award for Lifetime Contribution to Critical Scholarship (2006) - Biografía breve
- Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922 – January 27, 2010) was an American historian, playwright, and socialist thinker. He was chair of the history and social sciences department at Spelman College, and a political science professor at Boston University. Zinn wrote over 20 books, including his best-selling and influential A People's History of the United States. In 2007, he published a version of it for younger readers, A Young People's History of the United States.
Zinn described himself as "something of an anarchist, something of a socialist. Maybe a democratic socialist." He wrote extensively about the Civil Rights Movement, the anti-war movement and labor history of the United States. His memoir, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train (Beacon Press, 2002), was also the title of a 2004 documentary about Zinn's life and work. Zinn died of a heart attack in 2010, at age 87.
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Howard Zinn RIP en Radical History (septiembre 2011)
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La Otra Historia de los Estados Unidos por Howard Zinn
El gran historiador estadounidense nos da una visión desconocida de los EE.UU. Libro best-seller, ha sido muy elogiado por la crítica. Eric Foner (New York Book Review) ha dicho de él: "Quienes estén acostumbrados a los textos del pasado, en los que el nivel de la democracia americana y el crecimiento del poder nacional eran la encarnación del Progreso, se sorprenderán con la narrativa del profesor Zinn. Desde las primeras páginas donde se cuenta la invasión europea de los poblados indios en "Las américas", hay una inversión de perspectiva: héroes y traidores se mezclan. El libro guarda la misma relación respecto a los textos tradicionales como la que guarda el negativo de una fotografía con su impresión: las áreas de sombras y de luces están invertidas. El profesor Zinn escribe con entusiasmo poco frecuente en la atmósfera plúmbea de las historias académicas y sus textos se estudian tomando en cuenta a los dirigentes obreros, a los insumisos resistentes a la guerra y a los esclavos perseguidos. Hay vivísimas descripciones de acontecimientos que con frecuencia se ignoran, tales como la gran huelga ferroviaria de 1877 y la brutal represión del movimiento por la independencia en Filipinas a finales de siglo. El capítulo sobre Vietnam debería ser lectura obligada para las jóvenes generaciones de estudiantes.… (más)
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