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Urgent: Help Defend Students Against Disinformation

Teaching truthfully is more important than ever. While the right censors instruction with book bans, anti-CRT laws, and now threatens to shutter the Department of Education, we offer lessons to teach truthfully, outside the textbook, on immigration, climate, labor solidarity, and more.

Defying the Censorship: People’s History Taught in More Classrooms

More than 9,000 teachers signed up to access people’s history lessons in 2024, bringing our full registration at the Zinn Education Project to close to 170,000 teachers, with representation from every state.

Challenging Book Bans

In 2024, there were increased attacks on teaching history, including anti-CRT laws and book bans. To counter these attacks, we secured donations from authors and publishers to increase classroom access to books on people's history.

Call on NAIS to Correct the Record and Stand Against Hate

Call on NAIS to immediately correct the record and issue an apology to Dr. Suzanne Barakat and Prof. Ruha Benjamin.

These Classes Re-Lit My Fire

Thousands of teachers are learning the history missing from their own education, thanks to our Teach the Black Freedom Struggle classes.

The Healing of Organized Remembering: The Struggle to Teach Truth

On Jan. 13, 2025, educator Jesse Hagopian will discuss Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education, and the campaign to fight back against bans on books and education. This session is part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.

Miseducation Shaped the 2024 Election

The 2024 election revealed a troubling reality: Widespread miseducation and fear-mongering continue to shape political outcomes at the expense of people of color and marginalized communities.

Support the Right to Teach Truthfully

The Zinn Education Project (coordinated by Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change) needs your support for 2025.

People’s History at AHA in New York

The Zinn Education Project will have a booth at the American Historical Association annual meeting in New York from January 4–6, 2025.

Popular Lessons

Check out this list of frequently downloaded lessons from the Zinn Education Project website in 2024.

Reconstruction Robbery: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman’s Bank

Historian Justene Hill Edwards will discuss her book, Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman’s Bank, a comprehensive account of the Freedman’s Bank and its depositors. This session is part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.

Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt

Scholar Orisanmi Burton discussed his book, Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt. This class was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.

Why I Registered

Hundreds of educators register for free each month at the Zinn Education Project to access lessons and other resources. Here’s why.

Students Bring Reconstruction to Life 1 (Material) | Zinn Education Project

People’s History Teaching Stories

Stories about the impact of people's history lessons in the classroom.

Double Your Donation for Giving Tuesday

Thanks to the generous support of Dave Colapinto, all donations made through #GivingTuesday will be DOUBLED up to $10,000.

American Coup: Wilmington 1898

Documentary filmmaker Yoruba Richen and historian LeRae Umfleet discussed American Coup: Wilmington 1898, a new American Experience PBS documentary. This class was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.

New Graphic History of Reconstruction in D.C.

The graphic history Freedom Was in Sight has been shared with educators at the National Museum of African American History and Culture and with students in classrooms.

Why I Registered

Hundreds of educators register for free each month at the Zinn Education Project to access lessons and other resources. Here’s why.

Teaching Truths: Educators Speak on Justice and Liberation in the Classroom

A series of articles and interviews that center teacher experiences as they work to bring critical discussions to the classroom.

Defend the Teaching of People’s History

To continue to support educators with free people’s history resources we need your help. The Right has a well-funded campaign to suppress the truth. Your donation defends teachers who #TeachTruth.

Indigenous Peoples’ Day

Recommended classroom resources, including lessons, books, articles, films, and more for Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

Racism and Resistance in the North During the Civil Rights Movement

Educator Brian Jones talked about the history of the Civil Rights Movement in the North and ways that those stories can be included in the curriculum. This class was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.