Katie Rinderle, a 5th-grade teacher in Georgia, received a letter of termination for reading My Shadow Is Purple to her class.
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SNCC veteran Judy Richardson explained why she chose Hands on the Freedom Plow to donate to the "contraband book drive" at the Teach Truth Day of Action in Washington, DC on June 10, 2023.
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In dozens of cities, teachers and allies rallied to raise awareness about the threats to public education, LGBTQ+ students, and democracy.
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The Zinn Education Project mourns the passing of Daniel Ellsberg. Ellsberg’s most famous act — copying and releasing the secret Pentagon Papers history of the war in Vietnam — earned him National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger’s label, “the most dangerous man in America.”
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Guide for for anyone to create a pop-up Teach Banned Books display.
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Selected photos and stories from classrooms across the country about their use of the book and film, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks.
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The Teach Truth Day of Action was featured in local news stories, podcasts, and national news outlets.
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Dr. Kimberlé Crenshaw, co-founder and executive director of the African American Policy Forum, joined Cierra Kaler-Jones and Jesse Hagopian of Rethinking Schools to discuss Critical Race Theory and ongoing attempts to ban truthful and honest teaching of history. This session was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.
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Hundreds of teachers register at the Zinn Education Project website each week to access lessons and resources. We love hearing how people found us and why they’ve signed up. Check out these most recent reasons why people registered.
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National press call to discuss the growing chorus of diverse voices speaking out against politicians and their far-right supporters’ attempts to attack students’ freedom to learn and educators’ freedom to teach.
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Our annual Prentiss Charney fellowship offers support for a cohort of people’s history educator leaders to study, learn, and organize together. We spotlight Prentiss Charney Fellows each month on this page.
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Thanks to a generous donation by the author and publisher, we can send teachers a free copy of the new young adult novel Your Plantation Prom Is Not Okay.
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For the third annual national Teach Truth Day of Action, authors are submitting testimonials about why they support the campaign to #TeachTruth and the freedom to learn.
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The documentary film The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks was honored by the Television Academy at the Emmys.
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High school teacher Don Dumas invited staff and students from Bonita Vista High School to host a Teach Truth Day of Action event on Memorial Day.
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In the face of growing attacks on the teaching of history, The New Press is partnering with the Zinn Education Project to send books to teachers and teacher educators in Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
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The Salem Teach Truth Day of Action will be held June 3 and will include speakers and a history walking tour.
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A critique of commonly used U.S. history textbooks on their coverage of Reconstruction.
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Author Howard W. French joined Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian to discuss his book, Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War. This session was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.
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We invite educators, students, parents, and community members to rally across the country on June 10 to defend the right to teach truthfully about U.S. history and defend LGBTQ+ rights.
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Across the United States, educators, students, parents, and community members are meeting at historic sites to defend the right to teach truthfully and LGBTQ+ rights. Here are events in Florida.
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In solidarity with the #TeachTruth Day of Action on June 10th, Seven Stories Press is offering free copies of their new book, Voices of a People’s History of the United States in the 21st Century to participating educators.
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Author Linda Villarosa shared stories from her latest book, Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation, which exposes the persistent racism in the U.S health-care system. This session was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.
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At the Seattle Kraken hockey game on April 22, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll presented the Hero of the Deep award to Jesse Hagopian.
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