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Zinn Education Project team member and Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian spoke on CBS News about the increasing number of GOP bills to prohibit the teaching of Black history.

We, the undersigned educators, refuse to lie to young people about U.S. history and current events — regardless of the law.

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In January of 2021, two bills were proposed in Arkansas to restrict teaching about race, social class, solidarity, and the 1619 Project. Similar bills are being proposed in a growing number of states.

Clint Smith spoke with educators about his new book, How the Word Is Passed, and related classroom resources.

Pat Michelsen and Eric Dean generously offered to match donations up to $15,000 in support of the Zinn Education Project Teach Reconstruction campaign.

The Zinn Education Project is releasing an open letter signed by more than 180 prominent scholars of U.S. history urging school districts to devote more time and resources to teaching the Reconstruction era.

Dr. Tera W. Hunter was in conversation with Jeanne Theoharis about the historical context for the election victory in Georgia and to share insights from her research into freed women's lives, including the striking washerwomen of Atlanta.

Beginning in late March 2020, the Zinn Education Project, in collaboration with Dr. Theoharis and dozens of scholars and activists, launched online classes for educators with people’s historians.

In an International Women's Day online class, part of the Teach the Black Freedom Struggle campaign, the authors of A Black Women's History of the United States shared stories and insights from their book.

North Carolina teachers are invited to attend an interactive, introductory workshop on the Zinn Education Project.

Thank you to athletes Shaquill and Shaquem Griffin, and the artist Keegan Hall, whose signed prints of his piece "Griffin Brothers" will benefit our Teach the Black Freedom Struggle campaign.

The Zinn Education Project is producing a national report on the teaching of the Reconstruction era. The report will examine state standards, course requirements, frameworks, and support for teachers in each state. It will also include stories about creative efforts by districts and/or individual teachers in each state to teach outside the textbook about Reconstruction.