Here is a reason to look forward to 2021 — new people's history books.
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On Thursday, Sept. 17, at the White House Conference on American History, right-wing historians took aim at the Zinn Education Project, Howard Zinn, and the New York Times 1619 Project.
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In the fall of 2020, we launched 28 Teaching for Black Lives Study Groups across the United States.
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These lessons teach students the history of the Black freedom struggle — from resistance to enslavement to redlining to the ongoing fight for voting rights and reparations — in the United States.
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In response to the governor's proposed "Patriotic Education Fund," we ask for your help to provide people's history books and lessons to Mississippi middle and high school teachers and librarians.
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We work around the clock to provide resources to teachers and students in the COVID-19 pandemic. We need your help to continue this work in 2021.
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In a people's history online class, Professor Kidada Williams and Tiffany Mitchell Patterson discussed African American survivors of racist violence in the context of Reconstruction, drawing parallels to the contemporary moment.
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Recording and resources from the Teach the Black Freedom Struggle class on "Paul Robeson, Political Outlaw: Lessons for Today from the Black Radical Tradition," featuring Dr. Greg Carr in conversation with Jesse Hagopian
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Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves' state budget proposal include three million dollars for a “Patriotic Education Fund,” which argues that "the United States is the greatest country in the history of the world."
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In the wake of the election, now is the time to draw our students’ attention to the long struggle for voting rights in the United States — and the equally long struggle to suppress these rights.
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Lessons inspired by Lovecraft Country, developed by teachers in the Ida B. Wells Education Project.
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Jesse Hagopian’s article “How you can help Black Lives Matter at School” and the Zinn Education Project offer ways educators, parents, students, and anti-racist organizers can support the Year of Purpose and support Black students.
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Prof. Charles M. Payne led a class about post-WWII organizers for voting rights in the Civil Rights Movement.
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Find resources to teach about Indigenous Peoples' Day and to help students learn the real history of Christopher Columbus.
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Interactive classes about the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, the largest Superfund toxic waste site in the Western Hemisphere.
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Find lessons to teach current issues such as the climate crisis, voter suppression, Black Lives Matter, COVID-19, and more.
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When young people read about this country’s history of injustice, and about the people who have risen up to oppose oppression, they are inspired to do the same thing. Become a monthly donor and sustain the teaching of people’s history for the long haul.
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Educators speak out and support the teaching of people's history.
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Seattle Mariners outfielder Braden Bishop auctioned an autographed copy of his Jackie Robinson Day bat to benefit the Zinn Education Project's Teach the Black Freedom Struggle campaign.
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Twitter responded to the attacks on the Zinn Education Project and Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States at the White House Conference on American History.
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In this three-minute clip, Zinn counters Trump’s assertion that teaching people’s history tries “to make students ashamed of their own history.” To the contrary. Watch and share.
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Learn more about the Zinn Education Project campaigns to bring people’s history — not the president's state propaganda — to young people across the country.
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Suggestions for teaching Zinn Education Project people's history lessons remotely in both synchronous and asynchronous classrooms.
Article. By Ursula Wolfe-Rocca. 2020
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Here are resources to help students probe the roots of U.S. involvement in Vietnam and the impact of the Vietnam War — which the Vietnamese rightly call “The American War” — and resistance to the war.
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Teachers: Share your remote teaching story and receive a free copy of the New York Times' 1619 Project issue.
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