Zinn Education Project e-Newsletters
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December 2024 Some Good News: Teachers Won’t Be Silenced |
December 2024 Transforming Climate Anxiety to Action |
December 2024 Miseducation Shaped the 2024 Election |
December 2024 Teach the Black Freedom Struggle Classes “Re-Lit My Fire” |
| November 2024 Fighting for Democracy from Reconstruction to Veterans Day |
November 2024 Help Defend Students Against Misinformation |
November 2024 Why and How to Resist Deportations |
November 2024 Hidden History of Prison Resistance |
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| October 2024 Capitalism vs. the Climate |
October 2024 Students Put Climate Crisis on Trial |
October 2024 The Civil Rights Movement in the North |
October 2024 Native American Heritage Month Resources |
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| September 2024 The American Revolution Was NOT Very Revolutionary |
September 2024 Teach About Immigration and Climate Justice |
September 2024 NYT Jeopardizes People’s History Educators |
September 2024 Where Was the Largest Civil Rights Protest? |
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| August 2024 The History We Weren’t Taught |
August 2024 Teach the Struggle for Voting Rights |
August 2024 Labor History Censored on Labor Day |
September 2024 We Refuse with Kellie Carter Jackson |
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| July 2024 When Do You Teach About Climate Change in U.S. History? |
July 2024 Teach About Immigration |
July 2024 Meet the Prentiss Charney Fellows |
August 2024 Teacher-led Professional Development |
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| June 2024 Juneteenth Resources |
June 2024 Popular Lessons |
July 2024 People’s History of the Fourth of July |
July 2024 Teach Truth Day of Action Stories & Photos |
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| May 2024 Everyone Can Participate in the Teach Truth Day of Action |
June 2024 Teach Truth Day of Action Press Call |
June 2024 Teach Truth Day of Action |
June 2024 Teaching About Freedom Summer on the 60th Anniversary |
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| May 2024 Teaching About Current Events |
May 2024 Defend the Right to #TeachTruth |
May 2024 Hands on the Steering Wheel of History |
May 2024 Students Study Palestine |
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| April 2024 Teach Palestine: New Issue of Rethinking Schools |
April 2024 How YOU Can Defend #TeachTruth |
April 2024 Environmental Justice Lessons for Earth Day |
April 2024 Students Defend Human Rights |
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| March 2024 Toxins and Organizing for Environmental Justice |
March 2024 Healthcare: Lessons, Books, Classes, and More |
March 2024 Lies We’re Told About Crime |
March 2024 Does Your Textbook Lie About Reconstruction? |
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| February 2024 How the Word Is Passed, Color of Law, and more |
February 2024 Teaching the Seeds of Violence in Palestine-Israel |
February 2024 Environmental Justice and Public Health |
February 2024 Teach Reparations: New Film, Lessons, Class, and More |
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| January 2024 Lies We’re Told About Crime |
January 2024 Martin Luther King Jr. on Police Brutality, War, & Reconstruction |
January 2024 Climate Crisis on Trial |
February 2024 Black Lives Matter at School, Trans People’s History, and more |
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December 2024 Small Staff — Big Impact |
December 2023 Mark Your 2024 Calenders |
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| December 2023 Resources for Educators on Palestine, Israel, and the Climate |
December 2023 People’s History Teaching in Action |
December 2023 Free Copies of Book on African Americans During World War II |
December 2024 People’s History Lessons to Fight Voter Suppression |
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| November 2023 The Fight for Black History in Schools |
November 2023 African American Veterans Face Terrorism in U.S. |
November 2023 Native American Heritage |
November 2023 Teachers Won’t Be Silenced |
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| October 2023 Banned Books Week |
October 2023 Indigenous Peoples’ Day Resources |
October 2023 A People’s History of the Black Working Class |
October 2023 Teaching About the Ongoing Crisis |
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| September 2023 Teachers Describe Chilling Impact of Anti-Education Laws |
September 2023 Climate Crisis Has No History in Textbooks |
September 2023 Announcing 2023–2024 Teaching for Black Lives Study Groups |
September 2023 Banned Books Week: Defend the Right to Study People’s History |
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| August 2023 Fire in Maui Was NOT a Natural Disaster |
August 2023 Teaching a People’s History of the March on Washington |
August 2023 Labor History Censored on Labor Day |
September 2023 Labor History Censored on Labor Day |
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| July 2023 Make Some Noise, End Climate Silence |
July 2023 The lesson on COINTELPRO electrified my students. |
July 2023 Teaching in Dangerous Times: Lessons from SNCC |
August 2023 Freedom School for Educators — Teach the Black Freedom Struggle |
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| June 2023 How YOU Can Participate in the Teach Truth Day of Action |
June 2023 Not Allowed to Teach About Juneteenth |
June 2023 Uplifting Photos and Stories From the Teach Truth Days of Action |
July 2023 Teacher Receives Termination Notice for Reading “My Shadow Is Purple” |
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| May 2023 Centering Africa, Pete Carroll Presents Award, Teach Truth Day of Action |
May 2023 One Way to Defend Teach Truth and LGBTQ+ Rights |
May 2023 People’s History of Memorial Day and Free Books |
June 2023 From Stonewall to Stone Mountain: Banned Book Swaps and Teach-Ins |
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| April 2023 New Environmental Justice Lesson for Earth Day |
April 2023 Teaching for Black Lives Study Group Applications Are Open |
April 2023 Five Ways Textbooks Lie About Reconstruction |
April 2023 Louisville Students Document Local History of Enslavement |
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| March 2023 Study Groups Challenge Chilling Effect |
March 2023 New Reconstruction Lesson |
March 2023 ZEP at SXSW, Kidada Williams, and more |
April 2023 Lessons the Right Wing Does Not Want Taught |
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| March 2023 Teach Reconstruction Making the News |
March 2023 Open Letter to the College Board |
March 2023 Teaching Stories and Free Books |
March 2023 Bryan Stevenson, Book Bans, and more |
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| January 2023 Florida People’s History Banned from the Classroom |
February 2023 Defy the Censorship, Help Us Send Teaching for Black Lives Books to Florida |
February 2023 Teach Banned History |
February 2023 Lessons the Right Wing Does Not Want Taught |
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| January 2023 Rosa Parks Lessons, Film, and More |
January 2023 I Was Blown Away: Reconstruction Report Anniversary |
January 2023 Martin Luther King Jr. on Reconstruction and Police Brutality |
January 2023 Lessons for Today’s McCarthyism |
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December 2022 Free Climate Justice Teaching Resource |
December 2022 Good News: People’s History Is Reaching More Classrooms |
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| November 2022 Teach the Struggle for Voting Rights |
November 2022 New Reconstruction Lesson: Dozens of Primary Documents |
November 2022 Two-Minute People’s History Lessons |
December 2022 100 Teaching for Black Lives Study Groups: 2022–2023 School Year |
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| October 2022 From Florida to Oregon: Reconstruction Throughout the U.S. |
October 2022 New Book on African Americans During World War II, Free for Teachers |
October 2022 Major U.S. History Scholars Appeal to School Districts: Teach Reconstruction |
October 2022 The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks |
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| September 2022 Howard Zinn Centennial Events, Follow Up |
September 2022 Banned Books Week |
September 2022 People’s History Art for the Classroom |
October 2022 Indigenous Peoples’ Day |
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| August 2022 Teach Current Events, Free Lessons |
August 2022 Howard Zinn Centennial Events |
August 2022 Howard Zinn Centennial, People’s History Lessons, and more |
September 2022 Teach Jackson, Teach Climate Justice |
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| July 2022 Name and Confront White Supremacy and White Terror |
August 2022 In the News: People’s History Teachers |
August 2022 “Don’t Obey the Rules” Howard Zinn’s Advice to a Future History Teacher |
August 2022 Reconstruction Report Offer |
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| June 2022 Breaking the Book Ban |
June 2022 Make Good the Promises Teacher Workshop on Reconstruction |
June 2022 #TeachTruth Days of Action |
July 2022 Introducing the 2022-2023 Prentiss Charney Fellows |
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| May 2022 Teaching Against Climate Despair |
June 2022 Challenge the Lost Cause Narrative in Schools |
June 2022 #TeachTruth Days of Action |
June 2022 Climate Chaos is Crashing Through the World |
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| April 2022 May Day: Labor History in the Classroom |
May 2022 Teaching About the Supreme Court and Reproductive Justice |
May 2022 Free Copies of the Young Readers Edition of “The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks” |
May 2022 People’s History Workshops, Classes, Study Groups, and Teach Truth Days of Action |
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| March 2022 Podcast and Free Books for Teaching People’s History Stories |
March 2022 The Real Irish American Story Not Taught on St. Patrick’s Day |
April 2022 The People’s History They Don’t Want Our Students to Know |
April 2022 Earth Day in the Midst of a Climate Emergency |
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| February 2022 Black women activists banned from history lessons |
February 2022 Classroom Resources for Teaching People’s History |
February 2022 People’s History Is Elementary |
February 2022 The People’s History They Don’t Want Our Students to Know |
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| January 2022 Commemorate the anniversary and people’s history. |
January 2022 Free Subscription to Rethinking Schools Magazine! |
January 2022 Hot Off the Press: National Report on Teaching Reconstruction |
January 2022 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Reconstruction |
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December 2021 25,000 More Teachers in 2021 |
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| November 2021 North Dakota Bans Teaching About Structural Racism |
November 2021 From Times Square to the Classroom |
December 2021 Extreme Weather? Teach Climate Justice |
December 2021 State Standards Fail to Teach the Truth About Reconstruction |
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| August 2021 Teaching in Dangerous Times |
September 2021 #TeachTruth About Constitution Day |
September 2021 Uplifting Teach Truth Photos and Stories |
November 2021 Black Veterans Killed in Fight for Democracy, Job Opening, Fugitive Pedagogy |
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| August 2021 James W. Loewen, In Memory |
August 2021 Educators Pledge to #TeachTruth from Anchorage, Alaska to Athens, Georgia |
August 2021 Teaching in Dangerous Times |
August 2021 Urgent Call: Teach Climate Justice |
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| July 2021 Pledge to #TeachTruth Summer of Action |
July 2021 Teach Truth Pledge Days of Action |
August 2021 #TeachTruth Syllabus |
August 2021 Urgent Call: Teach Climate Justice |
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| April 2021 Teach the Poetry of People’s History |
April 2021 Celebrate Earth Day and Teach Climate Justice |
June 2021 Five Ways to Participate in the June 12 Day of Action |
June 2021 Juneteenth 2021: Teach Outside the Textbook |
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| February 2021 Another Weather Emergency, Another Urgent Reminder to Teach Climate Justice |
March 2021 The Real Irish American Story Not Taught on St. Patrick’s Day |
March 2021 Dear Educators, It Is Time to Fight for Asian America |
April 2021 Major Scholars Sign Open Letter on Reconstruction |
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| January 2021 Teaching After Georgia Victory and Attempted Coup |
January 2021 Teach Climate Disobedience with a New Lesson |
February 2021 Black Panther Party in the News and the Classroom |
February 2021 New! Publications from Rethinking Schools, a Podcast Recommendation, and People’s History Books for Grades 3+ |
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December 2020 Teach Climate Disobedience with a New Lesson |
December 2020 We’re Under Attack — Defend the Right to Teach People’s History |
December 2020 New People’s History Books for 2021 |
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| October 2020 Teaching About Voting Rights and Voter Suppression |
November 2020 Teach the History of “Riots,” Racism, and the Police |
November 2020 How To Lie to Students About an Election |
November 2020 Mississippi Governor Attacks Teaching of People’s History |
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| September 2020 Teach Current Events with People’s History |
October 2020 Teach Indigenous Peoples’ Day |
October 2020 People’s Historians Online Classes Resume |
October 2020 Get Involved in the Black Lives Matter at School “Year of Purpose” |
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| September 2020 New: A People’s History Pedagogy and Materials for Remote Teaching |
September 2020 Black Lives Matter on Constitution Day |
September 2020 White House Attacks Howard Zinn and the Zinn Education Project |
September 2020 “There are other heroes young people can look up to.” |
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| August 2020 Teaching for Black Lives Means Teaching About Reconstruction |
August 2020 Teaching Materials for Educators and Families About the Pandemic |
September 2020 Teaching the Vietnam War 75 Years After Independence |
September 2020 Trump Threatens Schools Teaching People’s History |
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| July 2020 Three victories. The struggle continues. |
July 2020 Teaching Climate Justice in a Time of Perpetual Emergency |
July 2020 New Book Giveaway, ‘Stamped’ Teaching Guide, and More |
August 2020 ‘Diversify Our Narrative’ Petition for Chicago Public Schools |
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| June 2020 Teaching the Tulsa Massacre 99 Years Later |
June 2020 Teaching the Roots of the Rebellion |
June 2020 Monuments to Colonizers and Enslavers Are Tumbling Down |
June 2020 When Statues Come Down, Students Can Determine a New Landscape |
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| April 2020 Teaching Climate Justice and Celebrating Earth Day in a Pandemic |
May 2020 Teach Labor History |
May 2020 A New Lesson on Rosa Parks |
May 2020 Memorial Day: Where It Began and Whom Will We Honor? |
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| March 2020 Climate Justice Lessons from the Great Hunger |
March 2020 People’s History in the Pandemic |
April 2020 Teaching About Voting Rights — and Suppression — During the Pandemic |
April 2020 Lessons from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee |
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| February 2020 Elementary Lessons and More at the Zinn Education Project |
February 2020 Climate Justice Is a 21st Century Skill |
March 2020 How to — and How Not to — Teach Role Plays |
March 2020 Teach Women’s History Through People’s Movements |
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| January 2020 Ten Years After Howard Zinn’s Death – Lessons from the People’s Historian |
February 2020 New Lessons on Voting Rights on 15th Amendment Anniversary |
February 2020 NEH Teacher Institutes, 15th Amendment Commemoration |
February 2020 Teach Students to Question the President and the Struggle for Voting Rights |
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| January 2020 Teach About Iran, Iraq, and the Escalating War |
January 2020 People’s History Resources for Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action |
January 2020 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: War is Unjust |
January 2020 Conferences and Institutes in 2020 |
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December 2019 Teacher Mini-Grants to Commemorate the 15th Amendment in 2020 |
December 2019 Teaching with New York Times 1619 Project |
December 2019 Top 15 This Day in History Posts in 2019 |
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| November 2019 Help Shape Our Reconstruction Campaign in 2020 (150th Anniversary of the 15th Amendment) |
November 2019 The Zinn Education Project will be at NCSS 2019, Nov. 22-23 |
November 2019 Join Our Campaign to Teach People’s History |
December 2019 You’re One in 100,000! |
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| October 2019 Abolish Columbus Day |
October 2019 Fall Semester News |
October 2019 Do you teach about the Great Depression and the New Deal? |
October 2019 California Is Burning, Teach Climate Justice, and Stand with Chicago Teachers |
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| September 2019 Remembering Red Summer: The 100th Anniversary of the Elaine Massacre |
September 2019 I Commit to Teach Climate Justice |
September 2019 New Reparations Lesson | Find Us at Conferences this Fall |
September 2019 The Climate Crisis: Who’s to blame? Students decide in a trial role play |
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| August 2019 I Pledge to Teach Climate Justice |
August 2019 Two New Lessons About the Great Depression and the New Deal |
August 2019 New Lesson on the History of Redlining |
September 2019 Teaching Resistance in Dangerous Times |
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| May 2019 Teach Climate Justice Workshops |
May 2019 Teach Climate Justice? Tell Your Story and Get a Free Book. |
June 2019 The Charney Challenge |
July 2019 The Climate Crisis: Who’s to blame? Students may decide in a trial role play |
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| April 2019 Remembering Red Summer — Which Textbooks Seem Eager to Forget |
April 2019 Teach Climate Justice: New Lessons for Earth Day |
April 2019 PBS Releases New Film on Reconstruction |
April 2019 Teaching About Climate Justice with Poetry |
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| February 2019 Resources for Presidents Day |
March 2019 Students Strike for the Climate! |
March 2019 The Real Irish American Story Not Taught in Schools |
March 2019 Teaching a People’s History of Abolition and the Civil War |
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| January 2019 What teachers are saying about using people’s history lessons from the Zinn Education Project |
January 2019 Thank You — and Book Giveaway |
January 2019 Teach Reconstruction and Book Giveaway |
January 2019 Rethinking Ethnic Studies |
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November 2018 Teach Native Lives and History All Year Long |
December 2018 Have you seen our new website yet? |
December 2018 People’s History Resources for Black Lives Matter Week of Action at School |
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| October 2018 Whose History Matters? |
October 2018 Howard Zinn on Supreme Court vs. Power of the People |
October 2018 Downplaying Deportations: How Textbooks Hide the Mass Expulsion of Mexican Americans |
November 2018 Join ZEP in Chicago; Today in 14th Amendment History; New Staff |
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| September 2018 New Resource for South Carolina Teachers |
September 2018 What Sam Wineburg Gets Wrong About Teaching Howard Zinn’s A People’s History |
September 2018 Abolish Columbus Day |
September 2018 More Civics Will Not Save Us from Trump |
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| August 2018 The Other ’68: Black Power During Reconstruction |
August 2018 Howard Zinn Born This Day in History in 1922 |
August 2018 New School Year, New ZEP Organizer! |
September 2018 Teaching About the Attica Prison Uprising and the National Prison Strike |
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| July 2018 Rethinking the 4th of July |
July 2018 Colin Kaepernick and the Zinn Education Project |
August 2018 Why We Should Teach About the FBI’s War on the Civil Rights Movement |
August 2018 This fall, redouble our efforts to teach against racism |
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| May 2018 Memorial Day: Where It Began and Whom Will We Honor? |
June 2018 New Resources: Teach for Environmental Justice |
June 2018 Milestone Films Donates to the Zinn Education Project |
June 2018 Teach Reconstruction! |
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| March 2018 The Real Irish American Story Not Taught in Schools |
May 2018 Support the Teacher Rebellion on this International Workers’ Day |
May 2018 Rethinking Cinco de Mayo |
May 2018 New from Rethinking Schools: Teaching for Black Lives and #SchoolsToo |
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| February 2018 Week of Action: Black Lives Matter at Schools | Free BLM resources |
February 2018 Disguising Imperialism: How Textbooks Get the Cold War Wrong | Free Book Offer |
March 2018 Women’s History: Continue the Fight for Justice |
March 2018 What the Koch Brothers Want Students to Learn About Slavery |
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| January 2018 Bring People’s History Teacher Workshops to Your City |
January 2018 Don’t miss these conferences for social justice teachers |
January 2018 What Spielberg’s The Post — and Our Textbooks — Leave Out |
January 2018 Teaching Reconstruction: Stories from the Classroom | Free book! |
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November 2017 Bring People’s History Teacher Workshops to Your City |
December 2017 100,000 teaching people’s history |
December 2017 Bring people’s history to 100,000 classrooms |
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| October 2017 Christopher Columbus: No Monuments for Murderers |
October 2017 When Black Lives Mattered: Why Teach Reconstruction |
November 2017 Teaching in the Time of Trump: Year One |
November 2017 The Hidden History of U.S. Segregation | People’s History Events in San Francisco! |
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| September 2017 People’s History Tool Kit: Resources for Teaching Outside the Textbook |
September 2017 Fall Conferences | Trivia Night Returns! | Student Writing Contest |
September 2017 Solidarity with Indigenous Peoples — Abolish Columbus Day! |
September 2017 Teaching the Headlines: Climate Crisis and Nuclear War |
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| May 2017 Bringing People’s History Resources to U.S. Classrooms |
July 2017 Let’s transform the teaching of history |
August 2017 Fighting for Okinawa—My Home, Not a Military Base |
August 2017 Taking the Fight Against White Supremacy into Schools |
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| February 2017 Five Myths About Reconstruction | Book Giveaway |
March 2017 Fight the Censorship of Howard Zinn in Arkansas Schools |
March 2017 Real Irish American Story Not Taught in Schools |
April 2017 Victory: Arkansas’ Howard Zinn Witch-hunt Fizzles |
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| January 2017 New Lesson: Standing with Standing Rock |
January 2017 New Lesson: Reconstructing the South |
February 2017 Tackling the Headlines: Teaching Humanity and History |
February 2017 Teach Students to Question the President |
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December 2016 Students tell a different story |
December 2016 Teaching People’s History Is More Urgent |
December 2016 From Howard Zinn’s Daughter |
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| November 2016 Howard Zinn on the Election of Trump |
November 2016 Abolish Columbus Day Movement Surges | New How-to Guide | D.C. Trivia Night |
December 2016 Get your t-shirt supporting people’s history! |
December 2016 Three Big Hits: Social Studies Conference, Trivia Night, and People’s History T-shirts |
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| August 2016 People’s History Tool Kit: Resources for Teaching Outside the Textbook |
September 2016 Solidarity with Indigenous Peoples — Abolish Columbus Day! |
October 2016 Support Indigenous Rights: Abolish Columbus Day |
October 2016 What We Don’t Learn About the Black Panther Party—but Should |
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| May 2016 Asian Americans in People’s History | 60,000 Teaching Outside the Textbook |
June 2016 What Happened to the Civil Rights Movement After 1965? Don’t Ask Your Textbook |
June 2016 A Stronger Community Thanks to You | Limbaugh Attacks | Abolish Columbus Day |
July 2016 To You from Howard Zinn’s Daughter, Myla Kabat-Zinn |
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| February 2016 Rethinking Presidents’ Day | Black History Origins and Figures |
March 2016 The FBI’s War on the Civil Rights Movement | Book Winners |
March 2016 Textbook Fail: The social forces that starved the Irish | Popular Lessons |
March 2016 New Lessons to Bring People’s History and Current Events to the Classroom |
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December 2015 Your Support is Needed to Bring People’s History to the Classroom |
December 2015 “My compass in a sea of textbooks” |
December 2015 More teachers than ever teach people’s history |
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| November 2015 One week left! Your chance to win a class set of books |
December 2015 Climate Justice: In Paris and In Our Classrooms |
December 2015 Let’s transform the teaching of history |
December 2015 Teaching people’s history and you |
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| September 2015 Pope Francis: System Change, Not Climate Change |
October 2015 Time to Abolish Columbus Day |
November 2015 Good News from the Zinn Education Project |
November 2015 Your chance to win a class set of books! |
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| July 2015 The Confederacy: Fact and Fiction |
August 2015 From the Bomb to the Vote: Anniversaries of Hiroshima and the Voting Rights Act |
August 2015 People’s History Tool Kit—Resources for Teaching Outside the Textbook |
September 2015 Constitution Day: Students deserve a critical and honest exploration |
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| May 2015 Rethinking Cinco de Mayo | Mother’s Day for Peace |
May 2015 Stealing Home: New Lessons on Race and Displacement | Memorial Day Origins and Meaning |
June 2015 Spring 2015 Update |
June 2015 50,000 Teachers Strong and Counting |
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| March 2015 New Lessons on the Environment | Selma | Women’s History Month |
March 2015 Irish American History Not Taught in Schools | People’s History Artists | Women in Labor History |
March 2015 Lying About the California Missions and the Indians |
April 2015 Camouflaging the Vietnam War | Classroom Lessons for Earth Day | New from Rethinking Schools |
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| January 2015 Ten Things You Should Know About Selma Before You See the Film |
January 2015 ‘A Revolution of Values’ by Martin Luther King Jr. |
January 2015 Five Years Later: Honoring Howard Zinn’s Legacy of Teaching and Activism |
February 2015 Missing from President’s Day: The People They Enslaved | Black History Resources | Thank You Donors | Conferences |
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December 2014 10,000 More Teachers in One Year |
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| December 2014 Keep ‘Koch’ Out of Our Schools |
December 2014 Your Support is Needed to Bring People’s History to the Classroom |
December 2014 44,500 Teachers and Growing — Support Teaching Outside the Textbook |
December 2014 Reach Thousands More Teachers and Students in 2015 |
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| September 2014 People’s History Tool Kit—Resources for Teaching Outside the Textbook |
September 2014 “This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed” | Banned Books Week | Celebrate People’s History |
October 2014 Abolish Columbus Day |
November 2014 Koch Brothers in the Classroom | See You at NCSS | This Changes Everything | Ferguson |
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| June 2014 Zinn Papers Dedication, NCSS, New Resources, and More! |
July 2014 Rethinking the 4th of July |
August 2014 ‘Is This America?’: Sharecroppers Challenge U.S. Apartheid, LBJ, and the Nation |
August 2014 ‘To live in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory’; Celebrating Howard Zinn’s Birthday |
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| May 2014 Japanese Internment, Brown v. Board of Education, and Featured Resources |
May 2014 Burning Tulsa: The Legacy of Black Dispossession |
June 2014 Textbooks Miss the Forgotten Fight Against Fascism |
June 2014 How Not to Teach About the Iraq War |
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| April 2014 A People’s History of Muslims in the United States |
April 2014 An Earth Day Message: Take Heart from the Abolition Movement |
May 2014 Resources for Teaching About May Day |
May 2014 Rethinking Cinco de Mayo |
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| January 2014 ‘Keep Fighting the Good Fight’ |
January 2014 ‘The exhilaration of standing with other people’—Remembering Howard Zinn |
February 2014 Missing from Presidents’ Day: The People They Enslaved |
March 2014 ‘Power In Our Hands’ and Labor Resources – Zinn Education Project News |
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December 2013 Howard Zinn: “I wanted to change the world.” |
December 2013 In Honor Family That Makes History |
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| October 2013 ‘The Threat of a Good Example’: The Invasion of Grenada |
November 2013 Defending Howard Zinn | See You in St. Louis | Howard Zinn, Presente |
December 2013 A ‘People’s History’ of 2013 |
December 2013 A Letter from Howard Zinn’s Daughter |
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| September 2013 People’s History Tool Kit — Resources for Teaching Outside the Textbook |
September 2013 It’s Constitution Day: Time to Teach History or Obedience? |
September 2013 Banned Books Week: People’s History Under Attack |
October 2013 Challenging Censorship, Amplifying Voices: Green Feather Movement, Columbus, and Conferences |
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| July 2013 Rethinking the Fourth of July |
July 2013 Indiana’s Anti-Zinn Witch Hunt |
August 2013 Tribute to Howard Zinn, Our Favorite Teacher |
August 2013 Claiming and Teaching the 1963 March on Washington |
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| April 2013 New, Improved, and Enhanced Zinn Education Project — Plus Much More! |
April 2013 An Earth Day Message: Take Heart from the Abolition Movement |
May 2013 Burned Out of Homes and History — Tulsa Race Riot Anniversary |
June 2013 Camouflaging the Vietnam War: How Textbooks Continue to Keep the Pentagon Papers a Secret |
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| January 2013 Honor Howard Zinn’s Life by Teaching People’s History |
January 2013 The Poison We Never Talk About in School |
February 2013 Reflections on Black History Month, At the Oscars, and Fellow Workers by Howard Zinn |
March 2013 Ten Years After: How Not to Teach About the Iraq War |
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December 2012 Your Support is Needed to Bring People’s History to the Classroom |
December 2012 Rethinkin’ Lincoln on the 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation |
December 2012 10,000 More Teachers in 2012—You Can Help Reach Thousands More in 2013 |
December 2012 26,000 Teachers Growing — Support Teaching Outside the Textbook |
| September 2012 It’s Constitution Day! Time to Teach Obedience or History? |
October 2012 It’s Columbus Day — Time to Break the Silence |
October 2012 See You at the Seattle NCSS |
November 2012 Stealing and Selling Nature: Why We Need to Reclaim “the Commons” in the Curriculum |
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| June 2012 Who Stole Helen Keller? |
July 2012 Rethinking the 4th of July |
July 2012 Fists of Freedom: An Olympic Story Not Taught in Schools |
August 2012 Howard Zinn at 90, Lessons from the People’s Historian, Find Us at NCSS, More Conferences, New Books |
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| January/February 2012 Honoring Howard Zinn’s Legacy |
April 2012 Earth Day Column on Huffington Post |
April 2012 Mexican American Studies, New Resources, Upcoming Conferences, Storycorps, and More |
May 2012 Untold Story for Classrooms about WWII Internment |
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December 2011 Highlights of the Zinn Room Dedication |
December 2011 Smashing Success at NCSS |
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| May 2011 Inspiring Bill Moyers Interview of Howard Zinn |
September 2011 Zinn Room Dedication Invite |
September 2011 Upcoming conferences |
October 2011 Letter from Myla Kabat-Zinn |
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| January 2011 Honoring Howard Zinn’s Life and Legacy |
February/March 2011 Women’s History, Wisconsin, and Vietnam |
April 2011 Solidarity! Resources at the Zinn Education Project |
August 2011 Ten New Teaching Activities and Upcoming Events Not to Be Missed! |
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March 2010 Free Sets of People’s History of the United States for 20 Teachers |
July 2010 Teaching Outside the Textbook in the News, The People Speak Live! at NCORE, Yes! Magazine, A People’s Celebration of Howard Zinn in Boston |
October 2010 Classroom Lessons on Whistleblowing, Ellsberg, Vietnam, and the Pentagon Papers |
December 2010 Teaching Outside the Textbook in 2010 |
| January 2010 Submit Questions for “Ask Howard” |
February 2010 We Salute Howard Zinn, The People’s Historian, 1922-2010 |
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February 2009 Howard Zinn at NCSS and D.C., Survey Response, New Website Coming |
June 2009 ZEP 2.0 in Process, Zinn on Democracy Now!, Free Event in D.C. |
December 2009 ZEP 2.0 in Beta, The People Speak Broadcasting on TV, Ask Howard Hour, New from Rethinking Schools |
December 2009 ZEP 2.0 in Beta, Ask Howard Hour, Become a Fan on Facebook, New from Rethinking Schools, New from Teaching for Change |
Selected Workshops and Presentations
March 30, 2017: Standing with Standing Rock: A Role Play on the Dakota Access Pipeline. Facilitated by Faye Colon and Andy Paparella, middle school teachers, and Deborah Menkart, Teaching for Change executive director. Read more.
March 4, 2017: A People’s Curriculum for the Earth Workshop. Facilitated by Bill Bigelow and Tim Swinhart in Portland, Oregon.
April 9, 2016: A People’s Curriculum for the Earth Workshop. Facilitated by Bill Bigelow in Washington, D.C.
March 19, 2016: NYCORE. “The Abolitionists: Exploring the Movement that Ended Slavery” facilitated by Adam Sanchez and “Sharecroppers Challenge U.S. Apartheid” facilitated by Deborah Menkart.
March 5, 2016: A People’s Curriculum for the Earth Workshop. Facilitated by Bill Bigelow in San Francisco.
December, 2014: This Change Everything Writing Retreat. Convened 20 teachers for the Zinn Education Project/This Changes Everything writing retreat weekend near Portland, Oregon, led by Rethinking Schools editors Linda Christensen and Bill Bigelow. Read more.
Apr. 28, 2014: Howard Zinn Paper Dedication at NYU. Workshop by Deborah Menkart, Julian Hipkins III, Katy Swalwell, and moderated by Carl Mirra. Opening comments by Alice Walker. Read more.
Nov. 18, 2012. NCSS. “Rethinking the Line Between Us: Teaching the War with Mexico Workshop” by Bill Bigelow.
Nov. 16, 2012. NCSS. Film Screening and Award Presentation with Sean Arce.
June 1, 2012. NCORE. A joint Democracy Now! and Zinn Education Project workshop called “Teaching a People’s History, Teaching Democracy Now!: Role Play on the Climate Crisis and Online Resources for Critical Media Literacy.” Read description.
April 21, 2012. Oregon NAME. Workshop by Bill Bigelow.
August 4-7, 2011. Transforming Education & Our World: 8th Annual Alternative Education Resource Organization (AERO) Conference in Portland, Oregon. The conference included three workshops on people’s history topics: Teaching diverse Middle School students empowering ways to explore racism in history (Moé Yonamine); Indigenous Peoples Confront the Climate Crisis (Tim Swinehart); and Rethinking the Line Between Us (Bill Bigelow)
June 4, 2010. National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education. People Speak Performance with Voices of a People’s History.
May 15, 2010. A People’s Celebration of Howard Zinn. Speech by Lauren Cooper about the Zinn Education Project.
April 23-24, 2010, Urban Sites Conference, Portland, Oregon. The People Speak: Illuminating Primary Source Documents to Promote Literacy and Activism – and – Rethinking the Line Between Us: Bringing History to Life in the Classroom.
March 20, 2010. NYCORE Conference, New York. Bringing People’s History to Life in the Classroom: In Honor of Howard Zinn (1922-2010) with Voices of a People’s History.
March 13, 2010. Literacy for Social Justice Teacher Research Group. St. Louis, MO. Teaching People’s History with You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train film viewing and discussion.
Selected List of Displays at Conferences and Other Public Events
2016
National Council for the Social Studies Conference (Washington, D.C.)
2015
National Council for the Social Studies Conference (New Orleans, LA)
Lessons of Vietnam: The Power of Protest (Washington, D.C.)
2014
Teachers for Social Justice – Bay Area (San Francisco, CA)
Northwest Teachers for Social Justice (Portland, OR)
National Association for Multicultural Education (Tucson, AZ)
National Council for the Social Studies Conference (Boston, MA)
2013
KIDD Literacy Conference (La Cruces, NM)
New York Collective of Radical Educators (New York, NY)
Free Minds, Free People Conference (Chicago, IL)
National Council for the Social Studies Conference (St. Louis, MO)
2012
National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education (New York, NY)
National Council for the Social Studies (Seattle, WA)
New York Collective of Radical Educators (New York, NY)
Oregon NAME
2011
American Historical Association (Boston, MA)
Anti-racist/Anti-bias Teaching Conference (Milwaukee, WI)
ASCD (San Francisco, CA)
National Association for Multicultural Education (Chicago, IL)
Northwest Teachers for Social Justice (Seattle, WA)
Teachers for Social Justice (San Francisco, CA)
2010
American Education Research Association National Conference (Denver, CO)
Anti-racist/Anti-bias Teaching Conference (Milwaukee, WI)
Coalition for Community Schools National Conference (Philadelphia, PA)
Literacy for Social Justice Teacher Research Group Curriculum Fair (St. Louis, MO)
National Association for Multicultural Education (Las Vegas, NV)
National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education (National Harbor, MD)
National Council for the Social Studies (Denver, CO)
New York Collective of Radical Educators (New York, NY)
Oakland History Day Fair – Celebrating Everyday Heroes in History (Oakland, CA)
Organization of American Historians National Conference and Commemoration of Howard Zinn (Washington, DC)
Philadelphia Social Justice Curriculum Fair (Philadelphia, PA)
Ridenhour Award Ceremony (Washington, DC)
Teachers for Social Justice conferences in Chicago, IL; San Francisco, CA; and Portland, OR
Urban Sites Conference of the National Writing Project (Portland, OR)
US Social Forum National Conference (Detroit, MI)
Wisconsin Social Studies Conference (Madison, WI)
White Privilege Conference (La Crosse, WI)
