Reconstruction was not a “failure” as referenced in many state standards. Students should learn that specific white supremacist individuals, organizations, and systems actively defeated it.

On July 11 and 12, 2022, 30 middle and high school teachers participated in a workshop offered by the National Museum of African American History & Culture (NMAAHC) and the Zinn Education Project on teaching Reconstruction.

Throughout the week of the 100th anniversary of Howard Zinn’s birth on Aug. 24, 1922, there will be events for educators, archivists, and the wider community to learn from Zinn’s life and work — and to share the many ways that people continue to document and share people’s history.

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

Meet the first class of Prentiss Charney Fellows of the Zinn Education Project for the 2022-2023 school year. The fellowship offers support for a cohort of people’s history educator leaders to study, learn, and organize together for one year.

The year 2022 marks the 100th anniversary of Howard Zinn’s birth on August 24, 1922, in Brooklyn. Although Howard died in 2010, his work continues to inform and inspire educators around the world.

Erasing the Black Freedom Struggle: How State Standards Fail to Teach the Truth About Reconstruction is now in print.

Since April, 13,000 copies of The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, the young readers’ edition of a book by acclaimed historian Jeanne Theoharis, adapted by award-winning YA author Brandy Colbert, have been shipped to teachers requesting copies to pair with their history or language arts curriculum.

It is urgent that educators of conscience commit ourselves to equipping our students to recognize the breadth of the climate emergency, to probe its social and economic causes, and to come to see themselves as activists for a just society and a stable climate.

Author Michelle Coles donated 52 signed copies of her acclaimed book for young people, Black Was the Ink, in support of our Teach Truth campaign.

We need to expose the right's agenda and be visible in our defense of teaching people's history. Don't let the right control the narrative. We ask EVERYONE (including YOU) reading this news post to participate in the #TeachTruth Days of Action all summer long.

Teachers and allies across the country pledged to teach truth on June 11 and 12, 2022. They made their pledges at historic sites to provide examples of the history that teachers would be required to lie about or omit if the GOP anti-history bills become law.

We invite educators, students, parents, and community members to rally across the country and pledge to #TeachTruth on June 11 and 12, 2022.

The Zinn Education Project is excited to announce another round of Teaching for Black Lives Study Groups, for the 2022–2023 school year.

Here are some of the sites that are hosting #TeachTruth Days of Action on June 11 and 12, 2022.

Teachers are invited to make public their pledge to #TeachTruth at historic sites throughout the year.

Educators and allies are pledging to teach truth in actions at historic sites across the country on June 11-12, 2022 and all summer long. Here are nine ways to participate.

Background reading and actions in response to Republican anti-history education laws.

We feature lessons, articles, and other resources to teach about the Tulsa Massacre and the ongoing struggle against institutionalized racism.

On this Memorial Day weekend, we feature two articles: one about the early origins of the holiday, led by African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina after the Civil War, and the second by Howard Zinn urging us to "destroy the weapons of death that . . . threaten our children and grandchildren."

The upcoming school board elections require our urgent attention.