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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.

James Loewen gave a talk to a full house at Busboys and Poets in DC about the new young readers edition of Lies My Teacher Told Me.

Join Southern Echo and the Zinn Education Project on Saturday, May 18 in Jackson, Mississippi for a workshop Reconstruction as part of the Teach Reconstruction campaign.

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.

Black Lives Matter at School is a national coalition of educators organizing for racial justice in schools. Although there are many ways educators can participate in the week of action, we hope educators will make a commitment to teach a wide variety of lessons centering Black history and literature

We are pleased to introduce the new and improved Zinn Education Project website.  Read about the new features, check out the site for yourself,  and spread the word.

Our team brought people’s history workshops and a booth full of teaching resources to the annual NCSS conference in Chicago on November 30 and December 1, 2018.

Michael Charney received the Teaching People's History award for his vision and advocacy for the teaching of Reconstruction.

The Zinn Education Project was thrilled to collaborate with the Durham Association of Educators (DAE) to bring our Teach Reconstruction campaign to teachers in North Carolina.

Interview by 1A host Joshua Johnson of Howard University Professor Greg Carr and LeMoyne College Professor Doug Egerton.