April 27, 2020
We compiled a list of more than 100 recommended films for use at home or with remote learning during the COVID-19 crisis.
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April 25, 2020
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.
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April 21, 2020
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.
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April 17, 2020
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.
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April 10, 2020
People's Historians Online mini-class on Teenagers in the Civil Rights Movement by author Jeanne Theoharis in conversation with Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian.
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April 1, 2020
Dr. Greg Carr offers short history and biography lessons in mini-lectures on Twitter.
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April 1, 2020
With online teaching tools, a teacher uses the Poetry of Defiance lesson on resistance to slavery.
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April 1, 2020
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.
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March 30, 2020
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.
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March 30, 2020
How one teacher engaged her students in the U.S. Mexico War lesson online during the coronavirus pandemic.
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March 25, 2020
Strategies for viewing films with students in classroom that invite insight and critical reflection.
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March 23, 2020
Historian Jeanne Theoharis and high school teacher/Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian facilitated an online session on "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks."
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March 21, 2020
It’s times like these where we need to remember and learn from the last great world crisis of this magnitude — the Great Depression. Here are classroom lessons by high school teacher Adam Sanchez on the Great Depression and the New Deal.
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March 18, 2020
Introduce high school students to people's history with these podcasts.
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March 17, 2020
People’s history is for all ages. Here, we feature some of our favorite age-appropriate materials and opportunities for younger students.
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March 13, 2020
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.
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March 12, 2020
Receive a free copy of Rad American History A-Z when you share how you teach people's history lessons via online platforms, teach about the coronavirus, and/or how you have used any of the lessons posted at our website.
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March 1, 2020
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.
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March 1, 2020
Teachers share how they teach history and engage their students during the 2020 pandemic.
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February 28, 2020
Kojo Nnamdi interviewed middle school teacher Lesley Younge and high school student Nadia Nazar for his climate series.
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