Howard Zinn

Howard Zinn's FBI Files Reveal A Boston University Official's Efforts To Oust Him

Megan Carpentier | July 30, 2010, 7:12PM

In perusing the 423-page FBI file that the FBI kept on Howard Zinn, who was a life-long activist and political science professor at Boston University from 1964-1988, we discovered something interesting: someone in the upper echelons of the university's management was an FBI informer who reportedly plotted to oust Zinn in 1970.

The files, which detail the FBI's somewhat absurd practice of collecting newspaper clippings, public speeches and publicized speaking dates for people it declared dangerous to the country, also contained some interesting details about the official's plans to end Zinn's academic career at Boston University -- where he published his seminal text A People's History of The United States in 1980.

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Howard Zinn

FBI Releases 400-Page File On Howard Zinn

Rachel Slajda | July 30, 2010, 11:25AM

The FBI today released a 423-page file on Howard Zinn, the radical progressive historian who wrote A People's History of the United States.

Zinn died in January.

We're digging through the file right now. Help us out -- leave what you find in comments or email us.

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