Howard Zinn, historian and activist, dies at 87
Howard Zinn, an author, teacher and political activist whose book ``A People's History of the United States'' became a million-selling leftist alternative to mainstream texts, died Wednesday in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 87 and lived in Auburndale, Mass.
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.