# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/howard-zinn
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:24:17.747Z

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name: "Howard Zinn"
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description: "Howard Zinn was an American historian and a veteran of World War II. He was chair of the history and social sciences department at Spelman College, and a political science professor at Boston University. Zinn wrote more than 20 books, including his best-selling and influential A People's History of the United States in 1980. In 2007, he published a version of it for younger readers, A Young People's History of the United States."
tagline: "American historian, playwright, and socialist thinker (1922–2010)"
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birthDate: "1922-08-24"
deathDate: "2010-01-27"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump