Howard Zinn
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Howard Zinn (born 1922) is an American historian, most famous for his book, A People's History of the United States. The book has sold over a million copies and gives a far-left interpretation of political history.
It does not incorporate the newer theories of history, but provides an energetic heavy-handed attack on conservatives, business, and white men. His book is stuck in 1950, methodologically, and does not appreciate the scholarship of the last 4 decades in the "new" intellectual, political, economic, diplomatic, military, cultural or social history. His "newest" ideas is that workers--and also blacks, Indians, and women--are victims of capitalism, a stock notion of the 1930s regarding workers.