With Banned Books Week (Sept. 21-27) in full swing, we call attention to the recent attempts to ban people's history books and curriculum.
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By Mark Kissling
What follows is that reflection, written as a narrative spanning the last decade and a half.
My purpose here is to argue, contrary to Governor Daniels, that students have much to gain from reading A People’s History in their classrooms. For that reason, I encourage all history teachers to bring Zinn’s writings into their classrooms.
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Rethinking Schools and the Zinn Education Project are partnering with an exciting project: This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate. This "multi-platform" project includes the new book by Naomi Klein, a feature documentary inspired by the book, and an ambitious outreach strategy to share the ideas behind these works with educators and activists, starting in Fall 2014.
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We are thrilled that Okinawa based television network Ryukyu Broadcasting Corporation (RBC) is filming a…
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Gerald Horne, professor of history and African American studies at the University of Houston, was interviewed on Democracy Now! on "the great disparity between how people in the United States talk about the creation myth of the United States."
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History for the People
By Robyn Spencer
In 1989, one of my history professors at SUNY Binghamton assigned A People’s History of the United States in our class and nothing has ever been the same. 1989. Pinochet. Robin Givens and Mike Tyson. George H. W. Bush and Shabba Ranks. The Golden Girls and Iran-Contra. This was my 19-year-old world.
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Lifelong freedom fighter Yuri Kochiyama passed away on June 1, 2014 at the age of 93.
Yuri Kochiyama is most widely known for being outspoken against the World War II arrest and internment of Japanese Americans in conditions that literally killed her father.
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Article. By Staughton Lynd. 2014.
Report on class on A People's History taught by Staughton and Alice Lynd at the Trumbull Correctional Institution.
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Teacher, historian, minister, activist, and author Vincent Harding (July 25, 1931–May 19, 2014) passed away this week at the age of 82.
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Ms. Richardson’s vivid details gave life to facts out of a textbook. It makes me
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On the morning of May 6, 2014, a webcam connected budding student activists and their…
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Letter to the editor of the American Educator in response to “Undue Certainty: Where Howard Zinn’s A People’s History Falls Short.”
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"Thank you for posting the picture of Huey Newton and the children. I am the girl in the picture. I was 11-years-old and volunteering as a typist for the Black Panther Party . . . Today I work on computers, so I am still typing!" -- Annissa Nadirah Karim
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The Zinn Education Project posted all the lessons from The Power in Our Hands: A …
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In the United States, there has been a renewal of interest in slavery, the…
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Howard Zinn passed away four years ago on January 27, 2010. We miss him--we miss his wisdom, his humor, his kindness, his capacity to place just about any current event in its historical context. The phrase "speak truth to power" perfectly describes the life's work of Howard Zinn.
The Zinn Education Project continues to draw inspiration from the words and deeds Zinn left behind.
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