Thanks to donations by authors and publishers, we can offer the books featured below in exchange for teaching stories about lessons at the Zinn Education Project on the themes noted.
Slavery and Resistance
In appreciation for a teaching story about any of the lessons for How the Word Is Passed, or for Poetry of Defiance: How the Enslaved Resisted, we’ll send you a copy of the new book, The Black Schooner: Rebellion on the Amistad, A Graphic Novel. (Note that we are only able to send books within the continental United States.)
American Revolution
We can offer you a copy of 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 in appreciation for teaching stories about using any of our lessons on the American Revolution.
Labor History
We can offer you a copy of Get on the Job and Organize: Standing Up for a Better Workplace and a Better World by Jaz Brisack in appreciation for teaching stories about using any of our lessons on labor history and labor organizing. Here are some examples of those lessons:
“Starcups Workers Unite!” — Students Learn Their Workplace Rights
Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union: Black and White Unite?
and many more.
Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement
Thanks to generous donors, we can offer hardback copies of King of the North: Martin Luther King’s Freedom Struggle Outside of the South to teachers in exchange for stories about using any of our lessons about Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement in the North, such as:
Martin Luther King in New York City by Jessica Lovaas and Jeanne Theoharis
Teaching the 1964 New York City School Boycott by Adam Sanchez
“Intolerable Conditions”: Teaching About Northern Racism Through Rosa Parks’s Detroit by Say Burgin, Jeanne Theoharis, and Ursula Wolfe-Rocca
Teaching A People’s History of the March on Washington by Jessica Lovaas and Adam Sanchez
Share your story on the form and indicate that you would like to receive King of the North.
Redlining
Get a free copy of Main Street: A Community Story About Redlining by Britt Hawthorne and Tiffany Jewell for your teaching story about using our redlining lesson How Red Lines Built White Wealth: A Lesson on Housing Segregation in the 20th Century by Ursula Wolfe-Rocca.
Palestine
Thanks to donations by the authors and publishers, we can offer one of the following books for your story on teaching any of the lessons at the Zinn Education Project on war, anti-war campaigns and/or Palestine and Israel.
War Made Invisible by Norman Solomon begins with a discussion of propaganda — which requires repetition, repetition, repetition. Think, for example, of the everywhere-present term “defense spending.” The United States spends more on its military than the next 10 countries combined. And yet the very term “defense spending” emphasizes its necessity and discourages doubt. But propaganda is also silence, in the media and in the curriculum.
Children of the Stone City by Beverly Naidoo. Without the mention of Palestine, Beverley Naidoo introduces young readers to Palestinian social reality, and the song of defiance that resonates from the Time Before until today.
I Found Myself in Palestine edited by Nora Lester Murad is a collection of personal reflections on the experience of being a foreigner in Palestine.
Let us know which book you would like to receive when you share your story.
Reparations and Climate Justice
In appreciation for a teaching story about either of our lessons on reparations, any of our lessons on climate justice, or the climate crisis timeline, we can send you a copy of the new edition of Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò’s Reconsidering Reparations: Why Climate Justice and Constructive Politics Are Needed in the Wake of Slavery and Colonialism. Táíwò offers a clear, new case for reparations as a “constructive,” future-oriented project: one that responds to the weight of history’s injustices with just distributions of benefits and burdens.
Learn about Reconsidering Reparations from the recording of our class with Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò as part of our Teach the Black Freedom Struggle series. Táíwò discussed the “ancestor perspective” and “constructive” reparations to help us meet the climate crisis. He said that it is impossible to tell a meaningful story of the last 500+ years without emphasizing resistance — that oppressed people have always had their hands on the steering wheel of history. And that is true today, too. It is what we mean by a people’s history of the United States.
All Lessons
In appreciation for your story about any of the lessons posted at the Zinn Education Project website, we can send you one of the books listed below, thanks to donations by publishers and individual donors.
Alberto Salas Plays Paka Paka con la Papa by Sara Andrea Fajardo
Malcolm Lives! by Ibram X. Kendi
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 – Present by Howard Zinn
Reconsidering Reparations: Why Climate Justice and Constructive Politics Are Needed in the Wake of Slavery and Colonialism by Olúfémi O. Táíwò
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History by Ned Blackhawk
The Sum of Us: How Racism Hurts Everyone (Young Readers’ Edition) by Heather McGhee
Will’s Race for Home by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Share your story on the form and indicate which book you would like to receive.
Note that we are only able to send books within the continental United States.
I’m thankful to the Zinn Education Project for providing the resources that challenge my teachers to provide a “true narrative” of the history of America. Your lessons and resources have pushed our students and instructors out of their comfort zone and into growth. Thank you for these lessons in truth and resilience!