The Zinn Education Project (coordinated by Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change) needs your support for 2025.

Check out this list of frequently downloaded lessons from the Zinn Education Project website in 2024.

Scholar Orisanmi Burton discussed his book, Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt. This class was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.

Hundreds of educators register for free each month at the Zinn Education Project to access lessons and other resources. Here’s why.

Stories about the impact of people's history lessons in the classroom.

Thanks to the generous support of Dave Colapinto, all donations made through #GivingTuesday will be DOUBLED up to $10,000.

Documentary filmmaker Yoruba Richen and historian LeRae Umfleet discussed American Coup: Wilmington 1898, a new American Experience PBS documentary. This class was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.

In 2022, the Zinn Education Project launched the Prentiss Charney Teacher Fellows program. Named for education activists C. J. Prentiss and Michael Charney, the fellowship offers support for a cohort of people's history teacher leaders each year.

Hundreds of educators register for free each month at the Zinn Education Project to access lessons and other resources. Here’s why.

A series of articles and interviews that center teacher experiences as they work to bring critical discussions to the classroom.

To continue to support educators with free people’s history resources we need your help. The Right has a well-funded campaign to suppress the truth. Your donation defends teachers who #TeachTruth.

Recommended classroom resources, including lessons, books, articles, films, and more for Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

Educator Brian Jones talked about the history of the Civil Rights Movement in the North and ways that those stories can be included in the curriculum. This class was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.

We offer classroom-tested environmental justice lessons, a climate crisis timeline, other teaching resources, workshops, and a sample school board climate justice resolution.

We want to hear your stories about using our lessons on Reconstruction. In appreciation for your time, we will send you a free copy of Freedom Was in Sight by Kate Masur and Liz Clarke.

Hundreds of educators register for free each month at the Zinn Education Project to access lessons and other resources. Here’s why.

According to an American Historical Association report, a quarter of the teachers surveyed use Zinn Education Project resources.

Historian Kellie Carter Jackson discussed her book, We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance as part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.

Seldom do we see Haiti in the news without the word “crisis.” It is important for young people to learn about the roots of the crisis and the long history of resistance.

Teacher stories about using lessons from the Zinn Education Project.

On this Constitution Day, let’s commit ourselves to teach the truth. Let’s look deeply and critically at how this document may have offered a republican form of government for some, but denied humanity to others, and contributed to the system of white supremacy we still need to dismantle.

With the airwaves full of inflammatory rhetoric about immigrants and the border a hot election topic, we provide lessons, teaching guides, and other recommended resources for teaching honestly and critically about immigration.

To prepare for local and national elections in November, teach outside the textbook about voter suppression.