November 21, 2011
The Zinn Education Project is pleased to have more than 15,000 registered users from every…
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October 12, 2011
The voting for the 2011 CREDO Donations Ballot is now closed.
However, you can still…
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October 11, 2011
More than 100 students and teachers at Capital City Public Charter School had the opportunity to hear from 1968 Olympic icon and political activist John Carlos and sportswriter Dave Zirin on Oct. 3, 2011. As part of the national book tour to launch The John Carlos Story, Carlos and Zirin spoke to the students about that moment in history, the limited explanations given in textbooks, and its continued significance.
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October 11, 2011
The Zinn Education Project is honored that Bill Bigelow and Julian Hipkins were invited on…
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October 10, 2011
There was a standing-room-only crowd at the new Busboys and Poets in Hyattsville, Md., for the special event on Sept. 21 to celebrate International Peace Day, dedicate the Zinn Room, and raise funds for the Zinn Education Project.
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October 9, 2011
One of the most popular teaching activities on the Zinn Education Project website is The People vs. Columbus, et al. which challenges student to critically examine the motivations for and impact of Christopher Columbus’ arrival in Hispaniola.
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September 26, 2011
Here are selected excerpts from the presentations on September 21, 2011 at Busboys and Poets…
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August 8, 2011
We have just posted 10 new teaching resources at our website! These include a dramatic role play about the little-known Japanese Latin American internment during World War II; an article on working with Lewis Hine's photos of child labor; activities on the first-ever Indigenous People's Summit on Climate Change; and a role play that puts students in the position of being members of the American Anti-Slavery Society, who must choose the most effective ways to fight slavery.
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August 2, 2011
A letter to ask Scholastic to stop distributing fossil fuel and other industry propaganda labeled as educational materials in schools.
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March 3, 2011
According to labor historian Mark Naison, the movement of workers that began in Wisconsin and…
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January 30, 2011
The Zinn Education Project is proud to have prepared a 100-page teaching guide for the…
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January 25, 2011
The Zinn Education Project has developed a 16-page promotional booklet to introduce teachers to the…
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January 20, 2011
Howard Zinn's keynote speech to teachers at the National Council for the Social Studies Conference in Houston in 2008.
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