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We need your help so that more teachers can learn and teach people's history during and after the pandemic.

The People’s Historians Online mini-class on Black Left: 1930s to the Early 1950s with Robin D. G. Kelley and Cierra Kaler-Jones on May 22, 2020.

Our profound appreciation to everyone who has donated to support the People’s Historians Online mini-classes.

In May 2020, the Zinn Education Project's Instagram account reached 50,000 followers.

Veterans of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee were the guest speakers in a virtual 6th grade classroom in California.

People's Historians Online mini-class on Black Athletes and the Black Freedom Struggle with presenters Dave Zirin and Jesse Hagopian on May 15, 2020.

People's Historians Online mini-class on Women in the Black Panther Party with presenters Robyn C. Spencer and Mary Phillips on May 8, 2020.

We need your help so that we can continue to develop resources, share teaching stories, and bring teachers together to think and act ourselves out of this pandemic.

On International Workers’ Day (May 1), close to 300 educators, parents, and students joined the sessions with Jeanne Theoharis and Jesse Hagopian on the radical history of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

We compiled a list of more than 100 recommended films for use at home or with remote learning during the COVID-19 crisis.

In support of middle and high school teachers while school buildings are closed, the Zinn Education Project is hosting People's Historians Online mini-classes.

In honor of the 60th anniversary year of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the People's Historians Online session on April 24 was led by SNCC veterans Courtland Cox and Judy Richardson, in conversation with high school teacher Jessica Rucker.

As we observe the 50th anniversary of Earth Day during the 2020 pandemic, we offer these resources that respond to both the immediate health crisis and climate change.

A people's historians mini-class on the Civil Rights Movement in the North on April 17. This was the third in our series on the Black Freedom Struggle: From Reconstruction to the Civil Rights Movement.

Dr. Greg Carr offers short history and biography lessons in mini-lectures on Twitter.

With online teaching tools, a teacher uses the Poetry of Defiance lesson on resistance to slavery.

Students in Bethany Hobbs’ social studies class met virtually on Monday, April 13, to share abolitionist autobiographies they wrote as part of Bill Bigelow’s ‘If There is No Struggle’: Teaching a People’s History of the Abolition Movement lesson.