A people's historians mini-class on the Civil Rights Movement in the North on April 17. This was the third in our series on the Black Freedom Struggle: From Reconstruction to the Civil Rights Movement.

Dr. Greg Carr offers short history and biography lessons in mini-lectures on Twitter.

With online teaching tools, a teacher uses the Poetry of Defiance lesson on resistance to slavery.

Students in Bethany Hobbs’ social studies class met virtually on Monday, April 13, to share abolitionist autobiographies they wrote as part of Bill Bigelow’s ‘If There is No Struggle’: Teaching a People’s History of the Abolition Movement lesson.

In support of middle and high school educators while school buildings are closed, the Zinn Education Project is hosting online people's historians mini-classes.

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

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

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.  

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

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

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.

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. 

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

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.

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 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.

Browse the most widely shared This Day in History anniversaries in 2019.