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.

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.

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.

What prospects are there today for assessing American politics and history from an early Hofstadterian remove?

A new history charts the forgotten ways the social politics of the Roosevelt years transformed the United States.

The rise of the first Black woman on the Louisiana Supreme Court was characterized by one battle after another with the Deep South’s white power structure.

Jonathan W. Wilson offers a constructively critical review of Wilfred McClay's American history textbook "Land of Hope."

The Supreme Court, the federal branch with the least public accountability, has historically sided with tradition over more expansive human rights visions.

After Baldwin’s biographer died, her niece opened an old desk drawer and discovered a trove of interview material, some of it unpublished.