People’s History at NCSS in Boston


The Zinn Education Project team will be at the National Council for the Social Studies Conference in Boston on November 22–23, 2024.

We have a booth in the exhibit area and we are offering a number of workshops, listed below. In the exhibit booth, we’ll have information about our Reconstruction report, Teach Climate Justice campaign, Teaching for Black Lives study groups, and all our people’s history lessons. There will also be resources from the two coordinating organizations, Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change. Visitors can take a photo with our #TeachTruth frame and/or record comments in our story booth.

Let us know if you plan to attend. We’d love to meet up with you there.

Zinn Education Project Schedule

Friday, November 22

Exhibit 
9:00 am–6:00 pm, Booths 900 and 902 

Saturday, November 23

Exhibit
8:00 am–4:00 pm, Booths 900 and 902

The Climate Crisis Has a History — Let’s Teach It
9:10 am–9:35 am, Room 111

Teaching the Radical Rosa Parks
2:25 pm–3:20 pm, Room 111

Teaching for Climate Justice Through Stories of Crisis and Possibility
2:25 pm–3:20 pm, Hall D

Teaching the Seeds of Violence in Palestine-Israel
3:30 pm–4:25 pm, Room 311

Additional Sessions of Note

Thursday, November 21

Dispelling Myths & Affirming Truths: Teaching Indigenous Peoples’ History, with Debbie Reese, Jean Mendoza, and others. Hosted by Beacon Press Books. 10:00 am–2:00 pm 

Friday, November 22

Ta-Nehisi Coates keynote, The Message: Unraveling Myths, Realities, and National Narratives
11:55 am–12:55 pm 

Cured Film Screening and Panel Discussion with Triana Wilson, Jocardo Ralston
3:00 pm–4:30 pm 

Saturday, November 23

Laurie Halse Anderson keynote, Ordinary People of the Revolution
10:20 am–11:15 am

Erika Lee and Christina Soontornvat keynote, Teaching Asian American History
11:25 am–12:10 pm

From Boston to Mississippi: How Noel Day’s Boston-Modeled “Citizenship Curriculum” Influenced SNCC’s Mississipi Freedom Schools by Mark Levy
1:20 pm–2:15 pm, Room 202

Both Days

Exhibit area booths by Americans Who Tell the Truth, Beacon Press, CLASP, Donnely Colt, Haymarket Books, HowardZinn.org (Booth 1005), New Day Films, New York Historical Society, Pulitzer Center: 1619 Project, the Right Question Institute, StoryCorps, and TeachRock.

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