Our new national report, Erasing the Black Freedom Struggle: How State Standards Fail to Teach the Truth About Reconstruction,includes a teachable vignette from a freedman navigating the era of emancipation in Mississippi.

In the first month of his administration, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has unveiled a host of directives to ban “inherently divisive concepts” from the state’s classrooms. Youngkin’s initiatives join a well-orchestrated right-wing assault on truthful teaching about race.

Georgia Educators, Students, and Community Members, please sign this petition that will be delivered to state legislators.

Students are invited to conduct research to complete the online database of Congress members who enslaved people -- and one of the researchers is available as a guest speaker.

We, the undersigned educators, refuse to lie to young people about U.S. history and current events.

The Zinn Education Project produced a national report on the teaching of the Reconstruction era. The report examines state standards, course requirements, frameworks, and support for teachers in each state. It also includes stories about creative efforts by districts and/or individual teachers in each state to teach outside the textbook about Reconstruction.

Historian Jeanne Theoharis shed light on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s stance on a range of issues, including his longstanding critique of police brutality. This session was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.

Although the coronavirus’s threat to the safety of our schools is dire, there is another threat that should not be ignored. Right wing politicians and media outlets are attacking educators’ most basic responsibility — to teach young people accurately and truthfully.

Summer learning opportunities for teachers.

In 2021, the Zinn Education Project (coordinated by Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change) supported and defended the right to teach truthfully about U.S. history. Please help us continue this essential work and expand our reach in 2022, the 100th anniversary year of Howard Zinn (born 1922).

No wonder the right-wing is upset. More than 17,000 teachers signed up to access people's history lessons in 2021, bringing our full registration at the Zinn Education Project to more than 140,000 teachers from every state in the country.

Here are just a few of our favorite 2021 young adult non-fiction and historical fiction titles.

On December 6, we hosted Jarvis Givens for a talk on his book, Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching, in conversation with Jesse Hagopian and Cierra Kaler-Jones.

It is wonderful to see Clint Smith's How the Word Is Passed in Times Square. We'd be even more thrilled to see photos and stories about how you use the book in your classrooms.

More than 60 teachers and other school staff attended the workshop on organizing issues related to the GOP attacks on teaching history. This was also an opportunity to learn from presenters and meet other organizers from across the country.

On November 8, 2021, author Dave Zirin joined educator Jesse Hagopian in dialogue for the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history class to discuss his book, The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World.

The UN COP26 climate summit starts this week in Glasgow, Scotland. But our so-called leaders are not leading on the climate emergency and corporate media is not sounding the alarm nor informing the public. Therefore, it is essential that teachers make space in our classrooms to highlight the emergency and help students work for real solutions.

Don't miss this film! The Neutral Ground, a documentary on the fight over Confederate monuments and the Lost Cause narrative, streams free on POV.org for the month of November.

Teach Reconstruction campaign adviser Kate Masur joined high school teacher Jessica Rucker on Tuesday, Oct. 5, to speak about the history of the movement for equal rights that courageously battled racist laws and institutions, in the North and South, in the decades before the Civil War.

The climate crisis is not going away — as fires in the West, hurricanes in the South, and floods in the East make clear. But with each new disaster, there is a new opportunity to convince schools that the time to teach climate justice is now. We cannot do that without your help.

The Philadelphia City Council approved a resolution "denouncing attacks on efforts to address systemic racism in the United States."