More teachers. More students. More people's history. This year, we reached 44,500 K-12 teachers who are using free Zinn Education Project lessons. That's almost a million students receiving a more honest and complex understanding of U.S. history. Help us reach 55,000 teachers in 2015 with people's history resources.

This week, the Zinn Education Project reached a milestone: 10,000 new registered teachers in 2014. We now have more than 44,500 teachers using our materials, teaching outside the textbook. As one of the 44,500 educators who have registered for the Zinn Education Project website, please donate so that we can reach even more teachers and students in the coming year. You can make an online donation, a stock donation, or mail a check to the address below.

In light of the grand jury decision, we share this collection of teaching ideas and resources, originally published by Teaching for Change in August of 2014. By Julian Hipkins III As the new school year begins, first and foremost on our minds and in our hearts will be the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Teachers may be faced with students’ anger, frustration, sadness, confusion, and questions. Some students will wonder how this could happen in the United States. For others, unfortunately, police brutality and intimidation are all too familiar.

The Zinn Education Project will have a major presence with three booths at the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) Conference in Boston from Nov. 21-22, 2014. If you are one of the thousands of social studies teachers from around the world attending the NCSS conference, be sure to stop by the Zinn Education Project booths.

Performances of Voices of a People's History Scheduled for Los Angeles and New York in November The 10th anniversary edition of Voices of a People’s History of the United States will be published by Seven Stories Press this fall.

The Colorado students protests in defense of learning history are reverberating in the media around the country and are also generating discussions around family dinner tables.

With Banned Books Week (Sept. 21-27) in full swing, we call attention to the recent attempts to ban people's history books and curriculum.

By Mark Kissling What follows is that reflection, written as a narrative spanning the last decade and a half. My purpose here is to argue, contrary to Governor Daniels, that students have much to gain from reading A People’s History in their classrooms. For that reason, I encourage all history teachers to bring Zinn’s writings into their classrooms.

Rethinking Schools and the Zinn Education Project are partnering with an exciting project: This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate. This "multi-platform" project includes the new book by Naomi Klein, a feature documentary inspired by the book, and an ambitious outreach strategy to share the ideas behind these works with educators and activists, starting in Fall 2014.

Lifelong freedom fighter Yuri Kochiyama passed away on June 1, 2014 at the age of 93. Yuri Kochiyama is most widely known for being outspoken against the World War II arrest and internment of Japanese Americans in conditions that literally killed her father.

We offer our appreciation to the more than 800 people who took the time to give us their thoughtful feedback about what it means to teach people's history and the role of the Zinn Education Project. As promised, 20 names were selected at random from the survey respondents to receive a copy of the DVD Not Just A Game.