Please complete this short survey and tell us which books or other works of literature you have taught using a Zinn Education Project people’s history lesson, and how you have used ZEP lessons to provide historical context in your English classroom. 

Thanks to donations, we are sending Voting Rights Teaching Toolkits to teachers. These toolkits help young people see voting as part of a broader effort to improve their lives and communities — and to see themselves as agents of change rather than spectators to politics.

Historians Aaron G. Fountain Jr. and Jon N. Hale discussed student organizing and state repression, and talked about their new books, High School Students Unite! and A New Kind of Youth. This class was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.

The Zinn Education Project’s Freedom to Teach and Learn Survey builds on and updates those findings by documenting, in educators’ own words, how the chilling effect is unfolding in schools today and how teachers are resisting. More than 610 educators from at least 43 states and Washington, D.C. responded to the survey.

Resources for Indigenous Peoples’ Day and all year to teach outside the textbook.

It is essential that students know their rights: not just to pass a test, but to protect themselves. We offer FIVE ways to Teach Truth on Constitution Day.

The America433+ coalition, led by the Resistance Rangers and including the Zinn Education Project, is hosting an in-person and virtual event to introduce the Get Loud Toolkit during a Climate Week NYC session on the Staten Island Ferry.

Studying the Constitution is essential — especially now, as constitutional rights are increasingly under attack. We offer activities to teach truthfully about the Constitution on Constitition Day and all year long.

We are witnessing a vicious attack on voting rights, democratic participation, and truthful education. History reminds us that we must organize to protect the gains won through generations of struggle.

In appreciation for your story about your teaching activities using any of our lessons on Voting Rights and/or the Constitution, we can send you one of several books thanks to donations by publishers.

Online classes for educators on teaching the Black Freedom Struggle. People's historians interviewed by classroom teachers and teacher educators.

If you are interested in exploring participatory city budgeting with your students, or maybe you already do, request a copy of the new book Budget Justice: On Building Grassroots Politics and Solidarities by Celina Su.

In appreciation for teaching stories about the lessons on the American Revolution, we offer The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and The Unmaking of U.S. History by Ned Blackhawk or We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance by Kellie Carter Jackson.

This workshop is a part of our national call to action to teach about voting rights in an age of authoritarianism, which includes a workshop series focused on voting rights, Reconstruction, constitutional struggles, student organizing, and the long movement to expand freedom in the United States. 

The Zinn Education Project supports Teaching for Black Lives study groups each year. Apply to host a group.

Lessons, books, articles, films, and upcoming events on labor history.

On July 4, 2026, the White House Domestic Policy Council issued a report attacking the Smithsonian National Museum of American History (NMAH).

We are thrilled to announce our third cohort of Zinn Education Project Prentiss Charney fellows for the 2026–2027 school year. The fellowship supports a cohort of people’s history educator leaders to study, learn, and organize together.

In a time of censorship and political repression, teacher-led study groups are building communities of resistance and hope.

For the 5th annual Teach Truth Day of Action, Seven Stories Press, Haymarket Books, and One Signal Publishers donated books that address the censorship of people's history. 

With summer underway, we’re highlighting new people’s history books (and two podcasts), from picture books to graphic novels, and more.

The Zinn Education Project (Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change) has joined a coalition led by the Resistance Rangers to defend truth telling at the 433 sites of the National Park Service.

The same administration sending ICE to terrorize communities contributes to the dangerous heat wave, threatening the safety of millions. Addressing this crisis requires getting to the root causes.