Historian Jeanne Theoharis returns to discuss her book, King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South. This session is part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.

Educators and allies are planning creative Teach Truth Day of Action events all over the country. Here are some examples.

Make visible the history that we are defending the right to teach with mini-lessons. Participants benefit from becoming informed about key issues and inspired to take action.

Book offers for educators who share stories about teaching any of the lessons at the Zinn Education Project.

Check out these mini-lessons by people’s history scholars in our Teach the Black Freedom Struggle classes. Then sign up for the series.

Hundreds of educators register for free each month at the Zinn Education Project to access lessons and other resources. Here’s why.

Historian Jeanne Theoharis discussed her book, King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South. This class was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.

Executive Orders on language, education, and climate have a profound impact on students’ lives. Therefore, young people should be invited to read and critique them. The Hillsdale College 1776 Curriculum is another text that merits critical attention.

Teach truth media toolkit with talking points, responses to FAQs, and best practices.

For the annual national Teach Truth Day of Action, authors, athletes, and activisits are submitting testimonials about why they support the campaign to #TeachTruth and the freedom to learn.    

Hundreds of educators register for free each month at the Zinn Education Project to access lessons and other resources. Here’s why.

We offer this #TeachTruthSyllabus as a gesture of defiance and education. The Right would be happy to obfuscate reality. We, on the other hand, want to probe beneath the surface — so we can teach the truth about our past and present.

Scholar Eve L. Ewing will discuss her book, Original Sins: The (Mis)Education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism, an examination of how the U.S. school system helps maintain racial inequality and social hierarchies. This session is part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.

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

Historian Justene Hill Edwards discussed her book, Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman’s Bank, a comprehensive account of the Freedman’s Bank and its depositors. This class was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.

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. 

Tuition-free opportunities for K–12 educators to study a variety of humanities topics.

School board elections require our urgent attention.

Hundreds of educators register for free each month at the Zinn Education Project to access lessons and other resources. Here’s why.

Educators are teaching in perilous times. We face a white supremacist backlash — funded by billionaires — against the 2020 uprising for Black lives, when tens of millions built a multiracial movement against systemic racism.

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

Call on NAIS to immediately correct the record and issue an apology to Dr. Suzanne Barakat and Prof. Ruha Benjamin. 

Thanks to a generous collaboration with Dartmouth College historian Matthew Delmont, the Zinn Education Project offered 14,000+ copies of Delmont's book to public school teachers, school librarians, and teacher educators, who shared a plan for using the text.

We, the undersigned educators, refuse to lie to young people about U.S. history and current events.