Updates and opportunities this summer, including webinars and a book giveaway, plus news about our Instagram milestone.
Continue reading
We offer a list of people's history lessons to accompany chapters in Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi.
Continue reading
The Zinn Education Project will send free copies of Lawrence Goldstone's new book to educators who submit a story about how they taught one or more lessons in our unit on the struggle for voting rights.
Continue reading
Students deserve a curriculum that helps them make sense of this moment, and that explores the connections between crises.
Continue reading
The Journal of the Civil War Era is offering two free opportunities to learn in the summer 2020: a series of four webinars and open access to a selection of articles on from their special issue on race, politics, and justice.
Continue reading
In July 2020, the Zinn Education Project's Instagram reached and exceeded 100,000 followers.
Continue reading
On July 10, the weekly People’s Historians Online mini-class featured a conversation between historian Manisha Sinha and high school teacher Adam Sanchez about the abolition movement and Reconstruction.
Continue reading
Lumbee Nation elder and activist Donna Chavis called the Atlantic Coast Pipeline win — and the larger movement for environmental justice — a "David versus Goliath struggle." This description also applies to the fight to make Indigenous-led fossil fuel resistance movements part of our curriculum. We share some resources and lessons to help.
Continue reading
Through the Make Reconstruction History Visible project, young people can identify and document history for new statues and monuments, ones that tell stories of liberation not enslavement.
Continue reading
On June 26, 2020, the weekly People's Historians Online session explored the history of rebellions in the United States with a conversation between Jeanne Theoharis and Jesse Hagopian.
Continue reading
On June 19, the weekly People’s Historians Online mini-class featured a conversation between Greg Carr and Jessica Rucker about Reconstruction and Juneteenth.
Continue reading
Resources to teach why people of conscience are challenging the iconography of exploitation, racism, and colonial domination.
Continue reading
Two readings for the classroom about the connection between capitalism, deforestation, climate change, and the coronavirus -- and the role of Indigeous Peoples' rights in protecting the environment.
Continue reading
On June 12, the weekly People’s Historians Online mini-class featured a conversation between Martha Jones and Tiffany Mitchell Patterson about Reconstruction and issues of citizenship, suffrage, and movement building in the 19th century.
Continue reading
In light of the 2020 rebellion, we offer materials to teach the history of white supremacy and Black resistance in the United States.
Continue reading
Resources for middle and high school classrooms on the history of policing in the United States.
Continue reading
After a week of nation-wide protests, Dr. Keisha Blain and Jesse Hagopian discuss the history of policing and the roots of the rebellion.
Continue reading
On May 29, Barbara Ransby was in conversation with Jesse Hagopian about Black feminist organizing from the 1950s to now.
Continue reading
We need your help so that more teachers can learn and teach people's history during and after the pandemic.
Continue reading
The People’s Historians Online mini-class on Black Left: 1930s to the Early 1950s with Robin D. G. Kelley and Cierra Kaler-Jones on May 22, 2020.
Continue reading
Our profound appreciation to everyone who has donated to support the People’s Historians Online mini-classes.
Continue reading
Bill Bigelow wrote a lesson about Rosa Parks' long life of activism, inspired by Jeanne Theoharis's stories in the People's Historians Online series.
Continue reading
Veterans of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee were the guest speakers in a virtual 6th grade classroom in California.
Continue reading
People's Historians Online class on Black Athletes and the Black Freedom Struggle with presenters Dave Zirin and Jesse Hagopian on May 15, 2020.
Continue reading
As part of our Teach the Black Freedom Struggle series, historians Robyn C. Spencer and Mary Phillips joined educator Jesse Hagopian to discuss what they have learned from and about the women of the Black Panther Party.
Continue reading