Howard Zinn, an outspoken historian who influenced generations of leftist political activists, died of a heart attack Wednesday in California. He was 87.
The son of Jewish immigrants, Zinn reached a wide audience with his 1980 book A People’s History of the United States, which explored U.S. history through the lens of the experiences of dissidents, women, African [...]

Scholars of the Holocaust and genocide history met Jan. 26 in Stockholm, Sweden, to mark the 10th anniversary of the Stockholm Declaration, which established Holocaust Remembrance Day. The date of the somber commemoration marks the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in 1945.
At the invitation of the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs — after writing [...]