About the Program

In September of 2002, historian Howard Zinn joined Book TV's In Depth for a live, three-hour conversation about his more than twenty books. Howard Zinn, 87, died on January 27, 2010. During the course of the In Depth program, Professor Zinn took calls from viewers. Howard Zinn was a history professor at Spelman College in Atlanta from 1956 to 1963. He was a political science professor at Boston University from 1964 to1988. His books are "LaGuardia in Congress" (Cornell University Press, 1959), "The Southern Mystique" (Knopf, 1964), "S.N.C.C.: The New Abolitionists" (Beacon, 1964), "New Deal Thought" (editor, Bobbs-Merrill, 1965), "Vietnam: The Logic of Withdrawal" (Beacon, 1967), "Disobedience and Democracy" (Random House, 1968), "The Politics of History" (Beacon, 1970), "The Pentagon Papers: Critical Essays" (editor, with Noam Chomsky, Beacon, 1972), "Postwar America, 1945-1971" (Bobbs-Merrill, 1973), "Justice in Everyday Life," (editor, Morrow, 1974), "A People's History of the United States" (Harper & Row, 1980), "Declarations of Independence" (Harper Collins, 1990), "Failure to Quit: Reflections of an Optimistic Historian" (Common Courage Press, 1993), "You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times" (Beacon Press, 1994), "The Zinn Reader" (Seven Stories Press, 1997), Marx in Soho: A Play on History" (South End Press, 1999), "The Future of History" (Common Courage Press, 1999), "On War" (Seven Stories Press, 2001), "On History" (Seven Stories Press, 2001), "Terrorism and War" (Seven Stories Press, 2002), "Emma: A Play" (South End Press, 2002).