Teaching Activity. By the Zinn Education Project. 100 pages.
Eight lessons about the Vietnam War, Daniel Ellsberg, the Pentagon Papers, and whistleblowing.
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Film. Directed by Icíar Bollaín and written by Paul Laverty. 2010. 103 minutes.
As a crew shoots a film about Columbus' genocide, local people in Cochabamba, Bolivia rise up against plans to privatize the water supply.
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Teaching Guide. Edited by Bill Bigelow and Jeff Edmundson. 1990. 130 pages.
Fourteen interactive lessons on the history of Nicaragua.
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Teaching Activity. Zinn Education Project. 21 pages.
Two lessons to introduce key facts about the Vietnam War and the Pentagon Papers, documents that provide essential history that is often ignored by textbooks.
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Film. By Emma Francis-Snyder. 2021. 38 minutes.
Takeover tells the story of the Young Lords’ 12-hour occupation of Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx in 1970.
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Teaching Activity. By Matt Vriesman. 60 pages.
A three-day lesson that engages students in historiography, primary sources, pop-up debates, and blackout poetry to explore the profound hopes, losses, and legacies of Reconstruction.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Jelani Cobb. 2025. 496 pages.
Collection of dispatches, mostly published in The New Yorker.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Wallace Terry. 1985. 320 pages.
Oral histories of twenty Black veterans who tell their stories of being in the Vietnam War.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Kimberley Phillips Boehm. 2014. 360 pages.
Examines how Black people’s participation in the nation’s wars and their protracted struggles for equal citizenship galvanized a vibrant antiwar activism that reshaped their struggles for freedom.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Steven W. Thrasher. 2026. 400 pages.
Explores what happens when members of historically minoritized groups are selected for high-visibility positions of power within existing institutions.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Gary Tyler with Ellen Bravo. 2025. 288 pages.
In the tradition of books by Albert Woodfox and Angela Davis, this memoir of a wrongful conviction and time spent on death row in Angola prison shows how incarcerated people care for each other and fight for justice.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Ned Blackhawk. 2024. 616 pages.
A retelling of U.S. history that acknowledges the enduring power, agency, and survival of Indigenous peoples, yielding a truer account and revealing anew the varied meanings of the United States.
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Film. Produced by Anne Lewis. 2012. 75 minutes.
Documentary about Southern activist Anne Braden.
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Profile. By Dernoral Davis.
Medgar Evers (July 2, 1925—June 12, 1963), Civil Rights Movement activist in Mississippi.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Heather McGhee. 2023. 240 pages.
This young readers’ edition analyzes racism in U.S. politics and policymaking, and provides a potential path forward through solidarity.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Clint Smith and adapted by Sonja Cherry-Paul. 2025. 272 pages.
Takes readers to historical sites across America, exploring the legacy of slavery to help readers make sense of our nation's past and present, and be better stewards of their own future.
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Teaching Activity. By Nicolle Fefferman. 2025. Rethinking Schools.
The director of the Young Workers Education Project and a Prentiss Charney Fellow describes a high school simulation based on recent Starbucks workers’ organizing.
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Teaching activity. By Freda Anderson. 2023. Rethinking Schools.
A high school teacher has students problematize the conditions of their school to learn about funding disparities and the disastrous effects of district debt.
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Teaching Activity. By Jeanne Theoharis and Jessica Lovaas. 2026. 10 pages.
Reading, discussion questions, and activity about Martin Luther King's activism in New York on labor rights, police brutality, housing, and education. The reading is from a chapter in King of the North: Martin Luther King’s Freedom Struggle Outside of the South.
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Teaching Activity. By Bill Bigelow with contributions from members of the Taíno Community. Rethinking Schools. 13 pages.
A trial role play asks students to determine who is responsible for the death of millions of Taínos on the island of Hispaniola in the late 15th century.
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Teaching Activity. By Julie Treick O’Neill and Tim Swinehart. Rethinking Schools. 16 pages.
A role play on the Indigenous Peoples' Global Summit on Climate Change asks students to develop a list of demands to present to the rest of the world at a climate change meeting.
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Teaching Activity. By Bill Bigelow. Rethinking Schools.
A role play introduces students to 24 individuals around the world — each of whom is affected differently by climate change.
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Article. By Ursula Wolfe-Rocca. Rethinking Schools Blog, September 2019.
A call to action for teachers to join students, whether in the streets or in classrooms, by using their voices for climate justice.
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Podcast episode. Seizing Freedom. 2022.
Kidada E. Williams speaks with Adam Serwer about the role of the Black press in the United States.
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Book — Non-fiction. Edited by Amie Thurber and Learotha Williams. 2021. 300 pages.
An exploration of Nashville's social justice sites and people's history, celebrating the power of counternarratives as a tool to resist injustice.
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