This was emailed to me. I don’t have any more information, and I don’t have time to dig for it right now.
I’ve had the pleasure of interviewing him a couple of times. Loved his Peoples History in high school and early on in college, though I was a little less impressed later on. But he was always thoughtful and quite often very original in his thinking.
More later.
The photo comes from his Wikipedia entry, which has already been updated.

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January 27, 2010 at 7:30 pm
M.E.
boston.com news, has this information and reports that Howards daughter said it was a heart attack. There is an article about Howard along with this news.
January 27, 2010 at 9:01 pm
Kym
Zinn said last week in the Nation ““I think people are dazzled by Obama’s rhetoric, and that people ought to begin to understand that Obama is going to be a mediocre president — which means, in our time, a dangerous president — unless there is some national movement to push him in a better direction.” Let’s hope he wasn’t prophetic.
January 27, 2010 at 9:43 pm
moviedad
Once again I find out about major events on this blog. I hadn’t heard. I saw him in Eureka a couple of years ago. He’s one of only a small handful of authentic patriots. So few of them. Edward Said was one. Studs Terkle. Dorthy Day.
I’m going to miss his wonderful “nazely” voice. Sad day. A good man.