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We compiled a list of more than 100 recommended films for use at home or with remote learning during the COVID-19 crisis.

In honor of the 60th anniversary year of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the People's Historians Online session on April 24 was led by SNCC veterans Courtland Cox and Judy Richardson, in conversation with high school teacher Jessica Rucker.

As we observe the 50th anniversary of Earth Day during the 2020 pandemic, we offer these resources that respond to both the immediate health crisis and climate change.

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."

People’s history is for all ages. Here, we feature some of our favorite age-appropriate materials and opportunities for younger students.

Two readings for the classroom about the connection between capitalism, deforestation, climate change, and the coronavirus -- and the role of Indigeous Peoples' rights in protecting the environment.

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.