Damn. I guess this happened last week, but I was too busy to notice.

Howard Zinn, an author, teacher and political activist whose book “A People’s History of the United States” became a million-selling leftist alternative to mainstream texts, died Wednesday in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 87 and lived in Auburndale, Mass

[From Howard Zinn, dissident historian, dead at 87 | Raw Story]