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The Voting Rights Act: Ten Things You Should Know

Article. By Emilye Crosby and Judy Richardson. 2015.
Key points in the history of the 1965 Voting Rights Act missing from most textbooks.

Why Do People Believe Myths About the Confederacy? Because Our Textbooks and Monuments Are Wrong

Article. By James W. Loewen. July 2015 in the Washington Post. A critique of textbook and mainstream media coverage of the Civil War.

Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering During the Civil War and Reconstruction

Book — Non-fiction. By Jim Downs. 2015. 280 pages.
Historical analysis of the illness and suffering endured by African Americans during the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt

Book — Non-fiction. By Hasan Kwame Jeffries. 2010. 372 pages.
History of the role that activists in Lowndes County played in spurring Black activists nationwide to fight for civil and human rights in new and more radical ways.

William Loren Katz: A People’s Historian

Profile. A brief biography based on an interview of historian and author William Loren Katz.

1492-1992: The Legacy of Columbus

Audio CD. By Howard Zinn. 2011. 60 min. Recorded in Madison, Wisconsin on October 9, 1991, Howard Zinn challenges the myths of the Columbus legend.

An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States

Book - Non-fiction. By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. 2015. Four hundred years of Native American history from a bottom-up perspective.

Mumbet’s Declaration of Independence

Picture book. By Gretchen Woelfle. Illustrated by Alix Delinois. 2014. 32 pages.
Picture book about true story of Elizabeth Freeman, a woman who challenged the legality of her enslavement.

Black Abolitionists

Profiles. Zinn Education Project. 2014. Brief biographies of 25 Black abolitionists.

The Tracing Center

Website. Materials for teaching about the economics of slavery based on the film, "Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep."

Whitewashing Our First President

Article. By Clarence Lusane. 2014.
Critical review of an upper elementary non-fiction book about George Washington and the people he kept in bondage.

The Cruel Years: American Voices at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century

Book — Non-fiction. Edited by William Loren Katz and Laurie R. Lehman. 2003. 304 pages.
First-person narratives in the context of their times and within the larger picture of U.S. growth and development.

The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom

Book — Fiction. By Margarita Engle. 2010. 384 pages.
Bilingual book of historical fiction in verse about Cuba's long fight for independence in the 19th century.

The Knotted Line

Website. Interactive timeline that connects moments in history related to the prison industrial complex.

Why I’m Rooting for Tommy Lee Jones

Article. By William Katz. 2013.
An opportunity to highlight Congressman Thaddeus Stevens' fight for equality.

The Voice of Industry (1845-1848)

Digital Collection.
Records of the Voice of Industry newspaper, published by young women in Lowell, Mass. from 1845-1848.

Tarantino Bloodies the Truth: A History Teacher’s Lament

Article. By Larry Miller. January 2013.
A review of the film Django Unchained.

There’s Infinitely More to Martin Luther King Jr. Than ‘I Have a Dream’

Back in 2001, I was trying to get my eleventh grade U.S. history class to focus on a passage from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1967 book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? Unfortunately, I was not surprised when a student protested, "We already know about him. We're tired of hearing about Martin Luther King."