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Howard Zinn

1922 - 2010

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Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922 – January 27, 2010) was an American historian, playwright, philosopher, socialist intellectual and World War II veteran. He was chair of the history and social sciences department at Spelman College, and a political science professor at Boston University. Zinn wrote more than 20 books, including his best-selling and influential A People's History of the United States in 1980. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Howard Zinn has received more than 2,685,604 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia. Howard Zinn is the 173rd most popular historian (down from 141st in 2019), the 2,872nd most popular biography from United States (down from 2,642nd in 2019) and the 8th most popular American Historian.

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  • 55.20

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 44

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.99

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Howard Zinn ranks 173 out of 561. Before him are Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad, Edgar Quinet, Sozomen, Ernst Kantorowicz, Karl Krumbacher, and Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim. After him are Charles Diehl, Anthony Blunt, Michael Glykas, Joseph Klausner, Pei Songzhi, and Steven Runciman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Howard Zinn ranks 158. Before him are Alan Perlis, Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer, Anker Jørgensen, Artemio Franchi, Bea Arthur, and Niels Holst-Sørensen. After him are Vasko Popa, Shovkat Alakbarova, Kingsley Amis, Mauro Bolognini, Theo Albrecht, and Charles M. Schulz. Among people deceased in 2010, Howard Zinn ranks 104. Before him are Cécile Aubry, Philippa Foot, Orlando Peçanha, Erich Segal, Guido de Marco, and Nasr Abu Zayd. After him are Andrei Voznesensky, Robert Culp, Raimon Panikkar, Georges Wilson, Vladimir Ilyushin, and Theo Albrecht.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Howard Zinn ranks 2,872 out of 20,380. Before him are Charles Bachman (1924), Karl Guthe Jansky (1905), Harold Bloom (1930), Morton Feldman (1926), William Steig (1907), and James P. Allison (1948). After him are Andre Braugher (1962), Gloria Leonard (1940), Michael Dukakis (1933), Beatrice Wood (1893), Carmen Argenziano (1943), and Neil Patrick Harris (1973).

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Among HISTORIANS In United States

Among historians born in United States, Howard Zinn ranks 8. Before him are Jared Diamond (1937), Donna Haraway (1944), Richard Sennett (1943), Natalie Zemon Davis (1928), Hayden White (1928), and Barbara W. Tuchman (1912). After him are Frederick Jackson Turner (1861), Linda Nochlin (1931), Joan Wallach Scott (1941), Deborah Lipstadt (1947), Donald Keene (1922), and Stephen E. Ambrose (1936).

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