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Moving Interactive People’s History Lessons Online: Massachusetts Students Study War with Mexico

How one teacher engaged her students in the U.S. Mexico War lesson online during the coronavirus pandemic.

Teaching People’s History with Film

Strategies for viewing films with students in classroom that invite insight and critical reflection.

People’s Historians Online for Middle and High School

Historian Jeanne Theoharis and high school teacher/Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian facilitated an online session on "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks."

Lessons from the Great Depression and the New Deal

It’s times like these where we need to remember and learn from the last great world crisis of this magnitude — the Great Depression. Here are classroom lessons by high school teacher Adam Sanchez on the Great Depression and the New Deal.

Rad American History A-Z Giveaway

Receive a free copy of Rad American History A-Z when you share how you teach people's history lessons via online platforms, teach about the coronavirus, and/or how you have used any of the lessons posted at our website.

Free E-Book Version of “A Young People’s History of the United States”

To provide access to people's history materials for students online, Seven Stories Press is making the e-book version of A Young People’s History of the United States available for free download on March 25 and 26.

People’s History Teaching Stories: Remote Learning

Teachers share how they teach history and engage their students during the 2020 pandemic.

Kojo Nnamdi on the Climate: Teaching for Hope and Action

Kojo Nnamdi interviewed middle school teacher Lesley Younge and high school student Nadia Nazar for his climate series.

Share Your Story and Receive Not Just a Game

Receive a free DVD copy of Not Just a Game, a civil rights and sports history documentary by Dave Zirin, when you submit feedback about any of our lessons.

Teach Students to Question the President

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.

Teaching Voting Rights in 2020

Though our students' textbooks suggest otherwise, on this 150th anniversary of the 15th Amendment the struggle for ballot access is not over.

Receive The New Jim Crow for Classroom Story

Teachers can receive the 10th anniversary edition of Michelle Alexander's award-winning study of mass incarceration and white supremacy in the United States.

Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action: Feb. 3 – 7, 2020

Teachers and students will observe the Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action nation-wide February 3-7, 2020.

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Ten Years After Howard Zinn’s Death — Lessons from the People’s Historian

By Bill Bigelow. On the 10th anniversary of his death, we remember Howard Zinn wanted educators to be deeply critical, but never cynical.

Teach About Iran, Iraq, and the Escalating War

Teach students about U.S. imperialism and war in the Middle East, and offer a historical context, with people's history resources.

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Teach for Climate Justice in Austin and Brattleboro

In 2019, Zinn Education Project co-director Bill Bigelow offered workshops on climate justice in Portland, Oregon; Surrey, British Columbia; San Francisco; Seattle; Austin; and Brattleboro, Vermont.

Campaign to Commemorate 150th Anniversary of the 15th Amendment

The Zinn Education Project and Color of Change are partnering on a campaign to teach about voting rights — in history and today — on this 150th anniversary of the 15th Amendment.

Milwaukee Schools: Organizing for Justice, Teaching for Black Lives

Milwaukee Public Schools received a donation of Teaching for Black Lives books for educators, students, and public education activists ahead of Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action.

“Join Me,” Says Zinn Education Project Co-Founder William Holtzman

Become a sustaining donor to the Zinn Education Project and your donation will be doubled.

Teacher Mini-Grants to Commemorate the 15th Amendment in 2020

Apply for a mini-grant to teach the 15th Amendment in 2020, the 150th anniversary of the Constitutional right to vote regardless of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."

Teaching People’s History Year in Review: 2019

Highlights from the Zinn Education Project in 2019.

Request Copies of Teach Climate Justice Campaign Booklet

Request copies of the 'Stories from the Climate Crisis: A Mixer' lesson booklet, part of the Teach Climate Justice campaign.

People’s History at NCSS 2019 Conference in Austin, Texas

The Zinn Education Project hosted a booth and and offered five workshops at the 2019 annual National Council for the Social Studies conference in Austin, Texas.

Teaching with New York Times 1619 Project

The 1619 Project, a multiplatform effort by journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times, highlights the fundamental role slavery played in the United States’ development by commemorating the year in which the first enslaved Africans were brought to the new Virginia colony.