Professor Zinn talked about his writings and career, and he responded to calls from viewers during the course of the program. He was a former history professor at Spelman College and a former political science professor at Boston University. Some of his more than twenty books include The Politics of History, published by Beacon; Postwar America, 1945-1971, published by Bobbs-Merrill; A People’s History of the United States, published by Harper and Row; You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times, published by Beacon Press; Marx in Soho: A Play on History, published by South End Press; and Terrorism and War, published by Seven Stories Press.