People’s History at NCSS 2025

The Zinn Education Project team will be at the National Council for the Social Studies Conference in Washington, D.C. from December 5–7, 2025.

We have a booth in the exhibit area and we are offering a number of workshops, listed below. In the exhibit booth, we’ll have information about our Reconstruction report, our Teach Climate Justice campaign, Rethinking Schools books and magazine, Teaching for Black Lives study groups, and more. Visitors can take a photo with our #TeachTruth frame.

Meet Zinn Education Project staff and Rethinking Schools editors. Our partner booth will feature people’s history digital collections with representatives from the Colored Conventions Project, Howard Zinn.org, and the SNCC Legacy Project.

Let us know if you plan to attend. We’d love to meet up with you there.

Sessions

Our team members will present the following workshops.

Teaching the History of the Climate Crisis

The First Era of Multiracial Democracy: What Really Happened During Reconstruction

Teaching a People’s History of the March on Washington

Who Killed Reconstruction? A Trial Role Play

Teaching for Climate Justice Through Stories of Crisis and Possibility

Note that we also submitted two workshop proposals on teaching about Palestine. Neither were accepted.

Additional Exhibits and Presenters

Also in the exhibit area will be our colleagues from Seven Stories Press, Beacon Press, Haymarket Books, Teach Rock, and the Right Question Institute.

Colleagues who are presenting include Prentiss Charney fellow Nicolle Fefferman, DCAESJ working group leader Mollie Safran, the SNCC Legacy Project, and more.