
Howard Zinn, Cambridge resident and historian, famed author of “A People’s History of the United States,” died Wednesday of a heart attack while traveling in California. A Boston Globe article on his passing is here.

Howard Zinn, Cambridge resident and historian, famed author of “A People’s History of the United States,” died Wednesday of a heart attack while traveling in California. A Boston Globe article on his passing is here.

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