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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.
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Our profound appreciation to everyone who has donated to support the People’s Historians Online mini-classes.
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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.
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Veterans of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee were the guest speakers in a virtual 6th grade classroom in California.
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People's Historians Online class on Black Athletes and the Black Freedom Struggle with presenters Dave Zirin and Jesse Hagopian on May 15, 2020.
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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.
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People's Historians Online mini-class on Women in the Black Panther Party with presenters Robyn C. Spencer and Mary Phillips on May 8, 2020.
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We need your help so that we can continue to develop resources, share teaching stories, and bring teachers together to think and act ourselves out of this pandemic.
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On International Workers’ Day (May 1), close to 300 educators, parents, and students joined the sessions with Jeanne Theoharis and Jesse Hagopian on the radical history of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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On this International Workers’ Day — May 1st — let’s remind ourselves of the importance of teaching our students about workers’ struggles for better lives. For dignity. For equality. For bread — and for roses.
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We compiled a list of more than 100 recommended films for use at home or with remote learning during the COVID-19 crisis.
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In honor of the 60th anniversary year of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the People's Historians Online session on April 24 was led by SNCC veterans Courtland Cox and Judy Richardson, in conversation with high school teacher Jessica Rucker.
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As we observe the 50th anniversary of Earth Day during the 2020 pandemic, we offer these resources that respond to both the immediate health crisis and climate change.
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A people's historians mini-class on the Civil Rights Movement in the North on April 17. This was the third in our series on the Black Freedom Struggle: From Reconstruction to the Civil Rights Movement.
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People's Historians Online mini-class on Teenagers in the Civil Rights Movement by author Jeanne Theoharis in conversation with Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian.
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Dr. Greg Carr offers short history and biography lessons in mini-lectures on Twitter.
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With online teaching tools, a teacher uses the Poetry of Defiance lesson on resistance to slavery.
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Students in Bethany Hobbs’ social studies class met virtually on Monday, April 13, to share abolitionist autobiographies they wrote as part of Bill Bigelow’s ‘If There is No Struggle’: Teaching a People’s History of the Abolition Movement lesson.
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In support of middle and high school educators while school buildings are closed, the Zinn Education Project is hosting online people's historians mini-classes.
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How one teacher engaged her students in the U.S. Mexico War lesson online during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Strategies for viewing films with students in classroom that invite insight and critical reflection.
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Historian Jeanne Theoharis and high school teacher/Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian facilitated an online session on "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks."
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It’s times like these where we need to remember and learn from the last great world crisis of this magnitude — the Great Depression. Here are classroom lessons by high school teacher Adam Sanchez on the Great Depression and the New Deal.
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