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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

Book — Non-fiction. By Ibram X. Kendi. 2016. 608 pages. This book chronicles the origins and growth of anti-Black racist ideas, and their power, over the course of U.S. history.

Just Mercy for Young Readers (book cover) | Zinn Education Project

Just Mercy: A True Story of the Fight for Justice (Adapted for Young Adults)

Book - Non-fiction. By Bryan Stevenson. 288 pages. 2018. This young adult adaptation provides readers a glimpse into the lives of the wrongfully imprisoned.

Breadline at McAuley Water Street Mission under Brooklyn Bridge, New York, circa 1930.

What Caused the Great Depression? The Widget Boom Game

Teaching Activity. By Adam Sanchez. Rethinking Schools. A simulation helps students understand the causes of economic crises.

Police use tear gas against participants in San Francisco’s 1934 general strike.

Who Made the New Deal? The Economic Recovery Conference Role Play

Teaching Activity. By Adam Sanchez. Rethinking Schools. Through role play, students explore how different social groups influenced New Deal legislation.

One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps

Books - Non-fiction. By Andrea Pitzer. 2017. 480 pp. Starting with 1890s Cuba, this book is a chronological and geopolitical history of concentration camps that is filled with prisoner perspectives.

Carter Reads the Newspaper

Picture book – Non-fiction. By Deborah Hopkinson. Illustrated by Don Tate. 2019. 36 pages. This picture book chronicles the young life of Dr. Carter G. Woodson, an Appalachian-born Harvard scholar and advocate for African American history. He founded Negro History Week in 1926 (which grew into Black History Month), the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), and the Journal of Negro History.

Counting Descent

Book — Non-fiction. By Clint Smith. 84 pages. 2016. A teacher and scholar celebrates Black humanity, and guides readers toward self-reflection through his coming-of-age poems that are political, historical, and deeply personal.

A Queer History of the United States for Young People

Book - Non-fiction. By Michael Bronski, adapted for by Richie Chevat. 336 pages. 2019. A young adult readers edition of the original text explores the history of LGBTQ+ experiences in the U.S. since 1500.

Indigenous People's History Young Readers (book cover) | Zinn Education Project

An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People

Book - Non-fiction. By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz; adapted by Debbie Reese and Jean Mendoza. 2019. 244 pages. The original academic text is fully adapted by renowned curriculum experts Debbie Reese and Jean Mendoza, for middle-grade and young adult readers.

Ghost Fishing Poetry Anthology (book cover) | Zinn Education Project

Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology

Poetry. Edited by Melissa Tuckey. 460 pages. 2018. A collection of poetry about colonial dispossession, the environmental crime of war, food and culture, resource extraction, resistance, and the Global South.

How Red Lines Built White Wealth: A Lesson on Housing Segregation in the 20th Century

Teaching Activity. By Ursula Wolfe-Rocca. Rethinking Schools. The mixer role play is based on Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law, which shows in exacting detail how government policies segregated every major city in the United States with dire consequences for African Americans.

All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life

Book - Non-fiction. By Winona LaDuke. 1999. Native American activists provide testimonies to indigenous efforts to resist oppression and fight both cultural and environmental degradation in the face of U.S. colonialism.

Teaching Climate Change to Adolescents: Reading, Writing, and Making a Difference

Teaching guide. By Richard Beach, Jeff Share, and Allen Webb. 148 pages. 2017. This book offers essential resources for English language and literature teachers to teach climate justice.

The Thingamabob Game: A Simulation on Capitalism vs. the Climate

Teaching Activity. By Bill Bigelow. Rethinking Schools. The Thingamabob Game helps students grasp the essential relationship between climate and capitalism.

A Message from the Future with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Film. Narrated by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and illustrated by Molly Crabapple. The Intercept. 2019. 7 minutes. The film flips the script on our future by illustrating one where we survive climate change and thrive because we took action today.

Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America

Book — Non-fiction. By Cameron McWhirter. 2012. 368 pages. A chronicle of white supremacist violence in major U.S. cities across the nation after World War I.

Poetry of Defiance: How the Enslaved Resisted

Teaching Activity. By Adam Sanchez. Through a mixer activity, students encounter how enslaved people resisted the brutal exploitation of slavery. The lesson culminates in a collective class poem highlighting the defiance of the enslaved.

1919

Book — Non-fiction. By Eve L. Ewing. 96 pages. 2019. Poetic reflections on the Chicago Race Riots of 1919 — part of 'Red Summer' — in a history told through Ewing's speculative and Afrofuturist lenses.

The Untold History of the United States: Young Readers Editions, Vols 1 (1898-1945) & 2 (1945-1962)

Book - Non-fiction. By Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick. Adapted by Susan Campbell Bartoletti and Eric S. Singer. Vol 1. 400 pages. 2014. Vol 2. 320 pages. 2019. These are two volumes of illustrated histories, adapted for students from a documentary book and film of the same name.

We the Resistance (Book cover) published by City Lights 2019

We the Resistance: Documenting a History of Nonviolent Protest in the United States

Book -- Non-fiction. Edited by Michael G. Long, foreword by Chris Hedges, afterword by Dolores Huerta. 610 pages. 2019. Encounter the voices of activists sharing instructive stories through narrative and primary documents.

Segregated by Design

Film. Directed by Mark Lopez. Written by Mark Lopez and Richard Rothstein. 2019. 18 minutes. An animated documentary of how the federal, state and local governments unconstitutionally segregated every major metropolitan area in the U.S. through law and policy.

Climate Justice (Art) | Zinn Education Project

Meet Today’s Climate Justice Activists: A Mixer on the People Saving the World

Teaching Activity Draft. By Matt Reed and Tim Swinehart. 2019. Students learn the names and stories of dozens of climate justice activists.

You got to move (cover art) | Zinn Education Project

You Got to Move: Stories of Change in the South

Film. 86 minutes. 1985. Documentary about people who learned to organize, and received peer support, at the Highlander Center.

The Uninhabitable Earth (Book) | Zinn Education Project

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

Book - Non-fiction. By David Wallace-Wells. 320 pages. 2019. This book raises the alarm over the Earth's climate crisis and demands radical action to save human civilization as we know it.

The Water Will Come by Jeff Goodell Book cover

The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World

Book - Non-fiction. By Jeff Goodell. 352 pages. 2018. Early 21st century societies scramble to fight rising seas and science journalist Jeff Goodell predicts what will happen if (and when) we fail.