Howard Zinn, historian, teacher, activist, dies
Howard Zinn, an author, teacher and political activist whose leftist ``A People's History of the United States'' became a million-selling alternative to mainstream texts and a favorite of such celebrities as Bruce Springsteen and Ben Affleck, died Wednesday.
Political author, activist and social historian Howard Zinn died Wednesday of a heart attack, while traveling to Santa Monica, California, according to his daughter, Myla Kabat-Zinn.