Howard Zinn

The famous historian was also an antiwar activist who went to North Vietnam in 1968 to accompany three captured US pilots back home.

What we can learn from the work of the university administrator who went toe to toe with Howard Zinn.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on why it's so important to tell the stories of people who have fueled social justice movements.

Teachers and students love "A People’s History of the United States." But it’s just as limited as the textbooks it replaces.

"A People’s History" is bad history, albeit gilded with virtuous intentions.

A new book portrays five American historians who published popular books that sacrificed neither intellectual depth nor political bite.

What happens when radical historians write for the public.

The controversial historian drew criticism from both left and right. We need more like him today.

It erases the fact that, for the first 70 years of its existence, the US was roiled by intense, escalating conflict over slavery – a conflict only resolved by civil war.

Jill Lepore’s awkward embrace of the nation.

For much of our clerisy, the nation is an anachronism or disgrace.

On Paul Ortiz’s “African American and Latinx History of the United States.”

When a Tufts instructor launched the trippy TV show on WGBH, it was unlike anything viewers had ever seen.

Trumpism seeks to restore patriotic, triumphalist U.S. history by censoring schools, libraries, museums, and archives.

A new book shows that Marxism in the US "was never constrained to the reiteration of a set of dogmatic principles one associates with party ideologues."

Calls to defund the Marxist left and similar mobilizations against rumors of a new red dawn are nothing new.

Were you to vanish Marx from every library, you’d destroy the central interlocutor around which most of capitalism is built.

What role do we really want history to be playing in our public life? And is the history we have actually doing that work?

One interpretation presents the country as irredeemably tainted by its past. Another contends that the United States has also tended toward egalitarianism.

The 1619 Project claimed to reveal the unknown history of slavery. It ended up helping to distort the real history of slavery and the struggle against it.