As a radical historian, he owed much to Karl Marx, but his thought is “Marxian” rather than “Marxist.” As a popular historian, he used literary sources and unapologetic moral and emotional appeals to further his radical agenda.
On the “objectivity question,” which has long been debated among academic historians, Zinn emulated the “new historians” of the early twentieth century. A Peoples History of the United States is a 1980 nonfiction book by American historian and political scientist Howard Zinn. Zinn argued that genuine historical objectivity is neither possible nor desirable, and wrote history with an unabashedly partisan and “present-minded” approach. Zinns best-known and most-praised work, as well as his most controversial, is A Peoples History of the United States (1980). The twentieth century, a peoples history / Howard Zinn Book, Online - Google Books Zinn, Howard, 1922-2010 1st Harper colophon ed. Containing just the twentieth-century chapters from Howard Zinn's bestselling A People's History of the United States, this revised and updated edition includes two new chapters - covering Clinton's presidency, the 2000 Election, and the 'war on terrorism. Howard Zinn, an academic, popular, and radical historian, political commentator, and author of the bestselling A People’s History of the United States, has been heavily criticized by those who claim that his history is distorted by his political agenda and thus lacks “objectivity” and “balance.” This study reveals that there is considerable justification for such claims, but also that the same criticisms can be applied with equal justice to the work of some of Zinn’s harshest critics.
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