Suggestions for teaching Zinn Education Project people's history lessons remotely in both synchronous and asynchronous classrooms.
Article. By Ursula Wolfe-Rocca. 2020
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Here are resources to help students probe the roots of U.S. involvement in Vietnam and the impact of the Vietnam War — which the Vietnamese rightly call “The American War” — and resistance to the war.
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Teachers: Share your remote teaching story and receive a free copy of the New York Times' 1619 Project issue.
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The Zinn Education Project has received funding from a generous group of donors to support 25 Teaching for Black Lives Teacher Study Groups this school year.
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While teaching remotely in the midst of a pandemic, we remain committed to building up and supporting our community of people's history teachers across the country.
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Survey for Washington teachers about the teaching of Black history in the state.
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Tell the Zinn Education Project what lesson you used, why you chose it, how your students reacted, and why you would recommend it, and we will send you this essential guide from Rethinking Schools.
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Updates and opportunities this summer, including webinars and a book giveaway, plus news about our Instagram milestone.
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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.
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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.
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Students deserve a curriculum that helps them make sense of this moment, and that explores the connections between crises.
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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.
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In July 2020, the Zinn Education Project's Instagram reached and exceeded 100,000 followers.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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On June 19, the weekly People’s Historians Online mini-class featured a conversation between Greg Carr and Jessica Rucker about Reconstruction and Juneteenth.
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Resources to teach why people of conscience are challenging the iconography of exploitation, racism, and colonial domination.
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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.
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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.
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In light of the 2020 rebellion, we offer materials to teach the history of white supremacy and Black resistance in the United States.
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Resources for middle and high school classrooms on the history of policing in the United States.
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After a week of nation-wide protests, Dr. Keisha Blain and Jesse Hagopian discuss the history of policing and the roots of the rebellion.
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On May 29, Barbara Ransby was in conversation with Jesse Hagopian about Black feminist organizing from the 1950s to now.
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