Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll selected the Teaching for Black Lives campaign for My Cause, My Cleats.

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Background reading and actions in response to Republican anti-history education laws.

Equal Justice Initiative founder Bryan Stevenson will discuss his book Just Mercy, the Legacy Museum, and the history of racial terror in the United States.

We were overwhelmed by the support on Giving Tuesday for the Zinn Education Project. Not only did people step up with donations, they also shared moving dedications and comments.

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

A new lesson offers dozens of primary source documents to help students explore the Reconstruction era.

Right wing politicians and media outlets are attacking educators’ most basic responsibility — to teach young people accurately and truthfully. Officials in at least 42 states have sought — and in many cases succeeded — to enact restrictions on what teachers can say about history and current events.

People's historian Staughton Lynd died on Nov. 17 after an extraordinary life as a conscientious objector, peace activist and civil rights activist, tax resister, professor, author, and lawyer.

For two years, new education standards for history and social science classes have been drafted in a public process. As those new standards come up for formal adoption, the Virginia Department of Education under Gov. Glenn Youngkin has proposed their own revisions, in consultation with Hillsdale College, proponents of the right wing 1776 Curriculum.

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

H-PAD is mobilizing its member historians to oppose the right-wing’s lies and distortions about what is and what is not being taught in schools and to stand up for educational freedom.

As voters navigate waves of voter suppression during the midterm elections, here are lessons, books, and other resources for teaching about the struggle for voting rights.

Matt Delmont shared stories from his new book, Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad. This session was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.

Listen to the audiograms of people's history scholars from the Teach the Black Freedom Struggle monthly online classes.

Selected photos and stories from classrooms across the country about their use of the book and film, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks.

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.

Author Ashley Farmer was in conversation with Cierra Kaler-Jones about Queen Mother Audley Moore (1898–1997), one of the most influential activists and thinkers of the 20th century. This session is part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.

Rosa Parks is one of the most well-known U.S. women of the 20th century and yet much of what has been taught about her is narrow, limited, and at times wrong. This is changing thanks to the release in 2021 of the young adult book, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks and a new film with the same title — both based on the Parks’ biography by Jeanne Theoharis.

Since April, 13,000 copies of The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, the young readers’ edition of a book by acclaimed historian Jeanne Theoharis, adapted by award-winning YA author Brandy Colbert, have been shipped to teachers requesting copies to pair with their history or language arts curriculum.

Media toolkit for #TeachTruth Days of Action.

The SNCC Legacy Project launched a new digital platform featuring videos, music, stories, reports, bios, photos, interviews, panels, and other materials of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).

Erasing the Black Freedom Struggle: How State Standards Fail to Teach the Truth About Reconstruction is now in print.