Online classes for educators on the teaching the Black Freedom Struggle. People's historians interviewed by classroom teachers and teacher educators.

The year 2022 marks the 100th anniversary of Howard Zinn’s birth on August 24, 1922, in Brooklyn. Although Howard died in 2010, his work continues to inform and inspire educators around the world.

The Zinn Education Project is producing a national report on the teaching of the Reconstruction era. The report examines state standards, course requirements, frameworks, and support for teachers in each state. It also includes stories about creative efforts by districts and/or individual teachers in each state to teach outside the textbook about Reconstruction.

On Monday, January 10, 2022, historian Jeanne Theoharis will shed light on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s stance on a range of issues, including his longstanding critique of police brutality. This session is part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.

Lawmakers in 18 states have enacted 30 new laws this year that will make it harder to vote. Help us reach more teachers with people's history lessons on voting rights in 2022.

In 2021, the Zinn Education Project (coordinated by Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change) supported and defended the right to teach truthfully about U.S. history. Please help us continue this essential work and expand our reach in 2022, the 100th anniversary year of Howard Zinn (born 1922).

To continue to support educators with free people’s history resources we need your help. The Right has a well-funded campaign to suppress the truth. Your donation defends teachers who #TeachTruth.

No wonder the right-wing is upset. More than 17,000 teachers signed up to access people's history lessons in 2021, bringing our full registration at the Zinn Education Project to more than 140,000 teachers from every state in the country.

Here are just a few of our favorite 2021 young adult non-fiction and historical fiction titles.

Many K–12 standards emphasize the “failures” of Reconstruction, overshadowing its transformative nature and obscuring how white supremacists dismantled it precisely because of its successes.

On December 6, we hosted Jarvis Givens for a talk on his book, Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching, in conversation with Jesse Hagopian and Cierra Kaler-Jones.

It is wonderful to see Clint Smith's How the Word Is Passed in Times Square. We'd be even more thrilled to see photos and stories about how you use the book in your classrooms.

All donations on Giving Tuesday will be matched up to $10,000 thanks to the generous support of Dave Colapinto, a former student of Howard Zinn’s at Boston University who defends whistleblowers.

More than 60 teachers and other school staff attended the workshop on organizing issues related to the GOP attacks on teaching history. This was also an opportunity to learn from presenters and meet other organizers from across the country.

On November 8, 2021, author Dave Zirin joined educator Jesse Hagopian in dialogue for the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history class to discuss his book, The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World.

Although the coronavirus’s threat to the safety of our schools is dire, there is another threat that should not be ignored. Right wing politicians and media outlets are attacking educators’ most basic responsibility — to teach young people accurately and truthfully.

The UN COP26 climate summit starts this week in Glasgow, Scotland. But our so-called leaders are not leading on the climate emergency and corporate media is not sounding the alarm nor informing the public. Therefore, it is essential that teachers make space in our classrooms to highlight the emergency and help students work for real solutions.

We offer this #TeachTruthSyllabus as a gesture of defiance and education. The Right would be happy to keep the conversation at the level of obfuscation, divorced from reality and history. We, on the other hand, want to talk about the truth — the truth about our past and present, the truth about our classrooms and curricula.

Don't miss this film! The Neutral Ground, a documentary on the fight over Confederate monuments and the Lost Cause narrative, streams free on POV.org for the month of November.

Thousands of teachers from across the United States have signed a pledge not to lie to their students.

The upcoming school board elections require our urgent attention.

Teach Reconstruction campaign adviser Kate Masur joined high school teacher Jessica Rucker on Tuesday, Oct. 5, to speak about the history of the movement for equal rights that courageously battled racist laws and institutions, in the North and South, in the decades before the Civil War.

The climate crisis is not going away — as fires in the West, hurricanes in the South, and floods in the East make clear. But with each new disaster, there is a new opportunity to convince schools that the time to teach climate justice is now. We cannot do that without your help.