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Submit a classroom story about a Zinn Education Project lesson and you will receive a copy of "Truth Has a Power of Its Own," courtesy of The New Press.

Our new lesson about redlining and housing segregation introduces students to the 20th-century housing policies that bankrolled white capital accumulation while halting Black social mobility — and contributed to the injustice of the modern wealth gap.

Teachers, teacher educators, and community activists are invited to attend the Northwest Conference on Teaching for Social Justice, Oct. 19, 2019, in Seattle, Washington.

We seek to recruit a part-time Campaign Organizer who will design the next phase for our Teach Reconstruction Campaign.

With your help, we can create a movement to teach about the people's history of Reconstruction.

Poet and educator Clint Smith wrote reflections in a tweet thread after visiting young people in a juvenile detention center. His description of what has been missing from their formal education serves to explain the purpose of many of our lessons.

Forty-five teachers from across the state of Mississippi convened in Jackson for a workshop on Reconstruction as part of the Teach Reconstruction campaign.

This is one of the most important new school district positions available: a full-time Climate Justice Coordinator for Portland (Ore.) Public Schools. There will be the opportunity to have a profound impact, since the Climate Justice Coordinator would work with the Portland Public Schools Climate Justice Committee, student activists, frontline communities, and classroom teachers.

To respond to our global house-on-fire climate emergency, the Zinn Education Project launched a Teach Climate Justice Campaign to push for more intensive teaching of the climate crisis in schools and to provide resources for educators.

Close to 80 teachers convened at Howard University on April 13, 2019, to participate in a Reconstruction Teach-In.

PBS released a new four-part documentary series called "Reconstruction: America After the Civil War."

This Friday, March 15, students here and around the world continue to make people’s history as they join the global strike for the climate.

This winter, the Zinn Education Project (ZEP) continued its work with San Francisco librarians and fostered new relationships with the UCLA School of Education and the Oaks School in Los Angeles.

This Presidents Day, rather than mythologize past presidents as kinder and gentler than Trump, let's remind students that this country has been at its best when people have organized to question and challenge presidents — opposing presidential support for slavery, war, invasion, segregation, and injustice of all kinds. 

Each year, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) funds summer institutes for teachers. Here are a few examples. Applications for all the institutes are due on March 1, 2019.

Our "this day in history" series on social media introduces hundreds of thousands of people to the stories they did not learn in school. Here are the top 15 #tdih posts in 2018.

We are pleased to share with you highlights from the Zinn Education Project this year. It is thanks to individual donors across the country that this work is possible.

In 2018, teachers across the United States downloaded people’s history lessons from the Zinn Education Project website a total of 50,000 times. Here are the ten most frequently downloaded lessons. We need YOUR support so that we can reach more teachers with resources for teaching people’s history and add more lessons in 2019.