On January 11, 2021, to celebrate the launch of a new book, Jeanne Theoharis spoke about Rosa Parks’ activism prior to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, her trip to the Highlander Folk School, and the decades she dedicated to challenging racism in the North.

Here are various ways that everyone can support and advocate for the teaching of people's history. 

U.S. history reveals both the roots of our cruel status quo and its possible antidote. Young people deserve an education that helps them understand how and why we are in this wretched mess, but never leaves them hopeless.

Here is a reason to look forward to 2021 — new people's history books.

On Thursday, Sept. 17, at the White House Conference on American History, right-wing historians took aim at the Zinn Education Project, Howard Zinn, and the New York Times 1619 Project.

In the fall of 2020, we launched 28 Teaching for Black Lives Study Groups across the United States.

These lessons teach students the history of the Black freedom struggle — from resistance to enslavement to redlining to the ongoing fight for voting rights and reparations — in the United States.

In response to the governor's proposed "Patriotic Education Fund," we ask for your help to provide people's history books and lessons to Mississippi middle and high school teachers and librarians.

We work around the clock to provide resources to teachers and students in the COVID-19 pandemic. We need your help to continue this work in 2021.

Recording and resources from the Teach the Black Freedom Struggle class on "Paul Robeson, Political Outlaw: Lessons for Today from the Black Radical Tradition," featuring Dr. Greg Carr in conversation with Jesse Hagopian

In the wake of the election, now is the time to draw our students’ attention to the long struggle for voting rights in the United States — and the equally long struggle to suppress these rights.

Lessons inspired by Lovecraft Country, developed by teachers in the Ida B. Wells Education Project.

Jesse Hagopian’s article “How you can help Black Lives Matter at School” and the Zinn Education Project offer ways educators, parents, students, and anti-racist organizers can support the Year of Purpose and support Black students.

Prof. Charles M. Payne led a class about post-WWII organizers for voting rights in the Civil Rights Movement.

Find resources to teach about Indigenous Peoples' Day and to help students learn the real history of Christopher Columbus.

Interactive classes about the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, the largest Superfund toxic waste site in the Western Hemisphere.

Find lessons to teach current issues such as the climate crisis, voter suppression, Black Lives Matter, COVID-19, and more.

When young people read about this country’s history of injustice, and about the people who have risen up to oppose oppression, they are inspired to do the same thing. Become a monthly donor and sustain the teaching of people’s history for the long haul.

Educators speak out and support the teaching of people's history.

Seattle Mariners outfielder Braden Bishop auctioned an autographed copy of his Jackie Robinson Day bat to benefit the Zinn Education Project's Teach the Black Freedom Struggle campaign.

Twitter responded to the attacks on the Zinn Education Project and Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States at the White House Conference on American History.

Learn more about the Zinn Education Project campaigns to bring people’s history — not the president's state propaganda — to young people across the country.