While students and teachers testify to the positive impact of people's history, the right to learn that history has been under frequent attack for the past few years.
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Mary Beth Tinker was a 13-year-old junior high school student in December 1965 when she…
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On July 17, 2013 the Associated Press (AP) revealed that former Indiana Governor and current Purdue University President Mitch Daniels had tried to ban Howard Zinn’s writing, including A People’s History of the United States, in K-12 public schools.
In a public statement on July 18, Purdue University stood by their president, stating that it is not an issue of censorship because it did not impact higher education, only K-12 public schools.
In other words, academic freedom and censorship do not apply to K-12 teachers and students.
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By Mike Leonard, The Herald Times Columnist
In July 2006, I wrote a column about sociologist James Loewen’s research on “sundown towns”----places where blacks were warned to leave before the sun went down. A native of Illinois who for many years taught at the University of Vermont, Loewen was stunned to discover that his home state had nearly 500 such towns, and neighboring Indiana was just as bad.
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The Associated Press (AP) released a story today about an attempt to censor Howard Zinn's writing, including A People's History of the United States, in K-12 schools in Indiana.
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In recognition of LGBTQ History month, we highlight one example of how a teacher and…
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For April, Diversity Month, the Zinn Education Project collaborates with StoryCorps to share resources on…
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Essay by Staughton Lynd in response to one of the recent media attacks on Howard Zinn and A People’s History. These attacks include Sam Wineburg’s “Undue Certainty: Where Howard Zinn’s A People’s History Falls Short” in the American Federation of Teachers' American Educator magazine and “Agit-Prof: Howard Zinn's influential mutilations of American history” by David Greenberg in The New Republic.
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For Women's History Month, we are pleased to share the digitized collection of the Voice of Industry newspaper. The Voice of Industry was a worker-run newspaper, published by young women from 1845-1848, who came to work in the factories in Lowell, Mass. Under the influence of the young labor leader Sarah Bagley, the paper was an uncompromising advocate for women’s rights, publishing pieces about marriage, suffrage, and equality.
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March 25 is the anniversary of the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in 1911 that…
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Responses from three historians to a critical review of the life and legacy of historian Howard Zinn in The New Republic.
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Howard Zinn’s talk, "Against War," recorded by Alternative Radio on March 17, 2006.
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One of the great silences in the mainstream school curriculum is the role that social…
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Dear Zinn Education Project friends,
Howard Zinn passed away three years ago, on January 27,…
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This special edition came about after scholars presented and discussed perspectives on the important influences…
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The Zinn Education Project had a major presence at the National Council for the Social Studies Conference in Seattle from Nov. 16-18, 2012. Educators from across the country met and talked about teaching people's history. We featured books by Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change, people's history resources, and a raffle.
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