To provide teachers an opportunity to explore how to teach about the rich history of the Reconstruction era, the National Museum of African American History (NMAAHC) and the Zinn Education Project are offering a two-day workshop for 30 middle and high school teachers.

On May 9, the Zinn Education Project hosted author Kidada E. Williams in conversation with Jesse Hagopian about the imaginative, defiant ways that Black people sought and enacted freedom throughout U.S. history. This history is highlighted in her podcast Seizing Freedom, which focuses on and brings to life voices that have been muted time and time again. This session is part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.

On Monday, April 25, 2022, historian Johanna Fernández spoke about the history of the Young Lords, the Puerto Rican counterpart of the Black Panther Party. This session was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.

This year, Earth Day arrives with crisis layered upon crisis. The emergency of climate chaos frames everything.

In New York in the late 1960s, students in the Young Lords and the Black Panther Party were considered such a threat to the establishment that an association of high school principals issued a secret memo about “limits of permissible dissent.”

Pledge to teach climate justice.

Invitation to a panel with high school student organizers from the Mid-Atlantic to the Midwest, from the Northeast to the Deep South to share their struggles and discuss their strategies for resistance.

A statue of Reconstruction era legislator Thaddeus Stevens was dedicated in Gettysburg on Saturday, April 2.

On the two-year anniversary of Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online classes, we express our appreciation to the educators, scholars, students, organizers, and advocates for teaching people’s history who made the series such a balm in hard times.

When Gov. Reeves proposed a precursor to his anti-history education bill two years ago, we offered people’s history books to Mississippi teachers. Their statements expose Reeves’ lies and also the type of teaching the law is actually designed to suppress.

South Carolina teachers participated in the first state-based workshop on the release of "Erasing the Black Freedom Struggle: How State Standards Fail to Teach the Truth About Reconstruction." It was hosted by the Penn Center, the Zinn Education Project, and the International African American Museum.

In March of 2021, as right wing politicians and media outlets scaled up their attacks on educators’ most basic responsibility — to teach young people accurately and truthfully — the Zinn Education Project launched a #TeachTruth pledge.

On Monday, March 14, 2022, journalist Victoria Law addressed prison resistance and myths about incarceration. This session was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.

A sampling of Howard Zinn's essays, quotes, trial testimonies, and correspondence related to prisons and prisoners.

The Zinn Education Project will provide free people's history books and lessons to Mississippi middle and high school teachers and librarians in response to the proposed Patriotic Education Fund.

We are offering free copies of Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones to teachers who share their experience with teaching any of the three lessons in "Who Gets to Vote? Teaching About the Struggle for Voting Rights in the United States."

The free workshop will include an opportunity to examine the report findings for South Carolina, learn about Hastings Gantt (who donated the land for the Penn School), and discuss approaches to teaching Reconstruction with fellow people's history teachers in the state.

On February 21, 2022, historian Martha S. Jones spoke about the role of Black women in the long and ongoing fight for voting rights. This session was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.

Maeve Conran of Free Speech TV's "Just Solutions" interviewed Jesse Hagopian about our new national report Erasing the Black Freedom Struggle: How State Standards Fail to Teach the Truth About Reconstruction.

Our new national report, Erasing the Black Freedom Struggle: How State Standards Fail to Teach the Truth About Reconstruction,includes a teachable vignette from a freedman navigating the era of emancipation in Mississippi.

In the first month of his administration, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has unveiled a host of directives to ban “inherently divisive concepts” from the state’s classrooms. Youngkin’s initiatives join a well-orchestrated right-wing assault on truthful teaching about race.

Georgia Educators, Students, and Community Members, please sign this petition that will be delivered to state legislators.

Students are invited to conduct research to complete the online database of Congress members who enslaved people -- and one of the researchers is available as a guest speaker.