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We are inspired by educators from West Virginia, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Arizona, Colorado, and beyond, who are standing up for the schools teachers and students deserve. These historic struggles are part of a wave of teacher rebellions sweeping the country — especially in "red states," where years of tax cuts have decimated public school funding.

J. J. Cornelius and his classmates at Franklin Middle School in Thief River Falls, Minnesota, researched the history of Reconstruction that gets short shrift in their state history textbook. They found lots of stories of note and drafted text for markers to place at significant sites.

In the midst of an unprecedented wave of teacher walkouts and strikes, the Washington Education Association invited the Zinn Education Project to offer a labor history workshop.

Educators in Charlottesville invited Adam Sanchez to facilitate a full-day workshop focused on teaching the Black freedom struggle from the resistance of the enslaved and abolitionists during the Civil War, to the heroic efforts to reshape society during Reconstruction, and finally with an exploration of the powerful organizing of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

To encourage more teaching about the history of prison uprisings and implications for today, the Zinn Education Project is collecting stories of how teachers introduce Attica in the classroom. If you have a lesson or teaching story about the Attica Prison Uprising, please share your story.

Five years after former governor Mitch Daniels tried to ban Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States from Indiana schools, the Zinn Education project was able to offer three workshops to dozens of educators throughout the state

Last month, West Virginia teachers inspired us with your victorious nine-day statewide strike. From the national media coverage, one of the things that struck us at the Zinn Education Project was the power of teacher stories. From Oklahoma to Kentucky and across the country teachers everywhere are eager to learn from the recent struggle in West Virginia, and we want to help amplify those stories.

The Make Reconstruction History Visible project is an opportunity for students and teachers to identify and advocate for public recognition of Reconstruction history in their community and the significant accomplishments made by newly freed people and their white allies. As part of the Teach Reconstruction campaign, this project helps students learn about this vital era in U.S. history while also playing an active role in giving visibility to an era that has been hidden or misrepresented for too long.

From #MeToo to the Movement for Black Lives to the victorious West Virginia teachers’ strike, women continue to be on the front lines fighting for justice.

On February 19, the NPR 1A radio show addressed the question of “How Do You Teach Slavery?” with Adam Sanchez, Zinn Education Project curriculum writer/teacher organizer.

How do you teach about housing discrimination in the North? Tell us, using excerpts from Richard Rothstein's articles or book, The Color of Law, or Linda Christensen's lesson, "Stealing Home: Eminent Domain, Urban Renewal, and the Loss of Community."

Colin Kaepernick asked for our help to get A People's History of the United States into the hands of young people at his Know Your Rights Camp.

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) issued a report which highlights how schools inadequately teach the history of enslavement in the United States.

Building on the 2016 Black Lives Matter day of action in Seattle, next week, February 5-9, educators across the country will take part in "Black Lives Matter at School Week."

Journalist Avis Thomas-Lester interviews teachers on how they address Reconstruction in the classroom on this 150th anniversary.

In November and December 2017, the Zinn Education Project hosted People’s History Trivia Nights in San Francisco and Washington, D.C., raising more than $4,300 for our work in 2018. At both events, everyone thoroughly enjoyed themselves while learning non-trivial people’s history.

In 2017, we hired our first full-time organizer to offer people’s history workshops for teachers (with a focus on the Reconstruction era) and to write lessons and articles. This fall we offered workshops in five cities to help teachers better use our people's history resources and to knit together face-to-face network of social justice teachers. Now we need your support to continue this work.

On Monday, The Washington Post columnist Courtland Milloy spoke with students and teachers in D.C. who are studying Native American history with lessons from the Zinn Education Project.