Teaching Materials Archive

Ida B. Wells, Voice of Truth

Picture book. By Michelle Duster, with illustrations by Laura Freeman. 2022. 40 pages.
An inspiring picture book biography of the groundbreaking journalist and civil rights activist as told by her great-granddaughter Michelle Duster.

Mother Jones and Her Army of Mill Children

Picture book. By Jonah Winter, with illustrations by Nancy Carpenter.2020. 40 pages.
The story of Mary “Mother” Jones and the 100 children who marched from Philadelphia to New York in a fiery protest against child labor.

Music and Silence: The Passion and Protest of Pablo Casals

Book — Historical non-fiction. By Christy Mihaly, with illustrations by Mariona Cabassa. 2026. 56 pages.
An inspiring picture book biography of a UN Peace Medal recipient who used his songs — and his silence — to fight fascism, oppression, and violence.

Storming Caesars Palace

Film. Directed by Hazel Gurland-Pooler. 2023. 85 minutes.
Tells the story of how Las Vegas activist Ruby Duncan's grassroots movement of moms fought for guaranteed income.

A Century of Struggle Poster and Guide

Poster. By Ricardo Levins Morales and Janna Schneider, with a Companion Guide by Jennings Mergenthal and Jaime Hokanson. 2025. 50 pages.
Chronicles U.S. social justice struggles, groups, activists, campaigns, slogans, publications, and events from 1900–2000.

Mapping Deportations: Unmasking the History of Racism in U.S. Immigration Enforcement

Digital collection. Invites you to see the history of U.S. immigration enforcement not as a series of disconnected events, but as a pattern.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

Film. Directed by Rick Goldsmith. 2025. 87 minutes.
The story of a secretive hedge fund that is plundering what is left of newspapers in the United States, and the journalists who are fighting back.

Main Street: A Community Story About Redlining

Picture book. By Britt Hawthorne and Tiffany Jewell, and illustrated by David Wilkerson. 2026. 40 pages.
A girl learns how the history of redlining has affected her neighborhood in this intergenerational picture book about racism, community action, and resilience.

Constitution Gallery Walk

The "Ten Ways to Rethink the Constitution" framework is available in a shortened form for participatory gallery walks.

People’s History of Fourth of July

A collection of more than a dozen people's history stories from July 4th beyond 1776. The stories include July 4th anniversaries such as when slavery was abolished in New York (1827), Frederick Douglass's speech "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro" (1852), the Reconstruction era attack on a Black militia that led to the Hamburg Massacre (1876), protest of segregation at an amusement park in Baltimore (1963), and more.

Book cover illustration showing children of all different shapes, colors, and sizes.

Our Skin: A First Conversation About Race

Picture book. By Megan Madison and Jessica Ralli , and illustrated by Isabel Roxas. 2021. 38 pages.
This read-aloud board book on race offers the opportunity to begin important conversations with young children in an informed, safe, and supported way.

Empire City: The Untold Origin Story of the NYPD

Podcast. Hosted by Chenjerai Kumanyika. 2024.
Uncovers the hidden history of the largest police force in the world — from its roots in slavery, to rival police gangs battling across the city, to everyday people who resisted every step of the way.

Black Teacher Archive

Digital collection. Intellectual, political, and cultural contributions of Black educators during the Jim Crow era through the Civil Rights era.

Counted Out

Film. Directed by Vicki Abeles. 2024. 89 minutes.
Explores misconceptions about the role math plays in our lives, who can learn it, and how it should be taught.

Banned Together

Film. Directed by Kate Way. 2024. 93 minutes.
Follows three students and their adult allies as they fight to reinstate 97 books suddenly pulled from their school libraries.

Who Built America?

Digital collection. A project by the American Social History Project (ASHP) that aims to revitalize interest in history by challenging traditional ways of learning about the past, focusing on the working men and women who shaped U.S. history.

Unreformed: The Story of the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children

Podcast. iHeart Media. 2023. In eight gripping episodes, journalist Josie Duffy Rice tells the story of the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children, the “reform” school now called Mt. Meigs.

They Call Me Teach: Lessons in Freedom

Picture book. By Lesa Cline-Ransome, illustrated by James E. Ransome. 2024. 40 pages.
Shows how one enslaved man, secretly named Teach, helps others learn to read and write wherever he can.

Barrio Rising: The Protest That Built Chicano Park

Picture book. By María Dolores Águila and illustrated by Magdalena Mora. 2024. 40 pages.
The true story of how community members organized a massive protest in 1970, forcing the city council to change its plans.

Do You Know Them?: Families Lost and Found After the Civil War

Picture book. By Shana Keller and illustrated by Laura Freeman. 2024. 40 pages.
Helps introduce young readers to the history of African American family members desperately trying to find their children, spouses, siblings, parents, and other loved ones during Reconstruction.

Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Primer

Excerpt from Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Primer by Phyllis Bennis.

Israelism

Film. Directed by Erin Axelman and Sam Eilertsen. Tikkun Olam Productions. 2023. 84 minutes.
Examines young Jews who are fundamentally changing not just their attitudes about Israel, Palestine, and Palestinians, but about their own role in the world, and coming to see themselves as solidarity activists.

The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel’s Public Relations War in the United States

Film. Directed by Loretta Alper and Jeremy Earp. Media Education Foundation. 2016. Three versions: 21 min./45 min./84 min.
This film helps students recognize how the media and politicians consistently frame “Palestinian resistance as terrorism and Israeli aggression as self-defense.”

Visualizing Palestine

Digital collection. Provides graphic storytelling that can help students see Palestinian reality in new ways.

“I Just Had a Fire!”: An Interview with Dorie Ann Ladner

Interview with SNCC veteran Dorie Ladner by historian Emilye Crosby. From The Southern Quarterly, Volume 52, Number 1, Fall 2014, pp. 79-110. Published by the University of Southern Mississippi.