In 2025, there were increased attacks on teaching history, including anti-history education executive orders and book bans. To counter these attacks, we secured donations from authors and publishers to increase classroom access to books on people’s history.
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The Zinn Education Project team offered workshops and an exhibit booth at the National Council for the Social Studies Conference in Washington, D.C. from December 5-7, 2025.
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The Zinn Education Project hosted a dinner reception at the Thurgood Marshall Center in Washington, D.C. on December 6, 2025.
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In 2025, we helped young people learn to read the news with a critical eye, to assess current events with a historical lens, and to recognize red-baiting and fear-mongering tactics.
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When South Carolina educator Alana J. Ward learned her African American Literature course was being cut, she could have given up. Instead, she organized.
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In the face of attempts by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to ban AP African American studies, social justice books, and critical race theory in K–12 schools (and DEI in public colleges), we take a look at stories in Florida history that would be off limits to students.
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Eve L. Ewing joined the Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online class series to discuss her book Original Sins: The (Mis)Education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism.
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Scholar Joshua Clark Davis spoke with educator Jessica A. Rucker about his new book Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back. This class was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.
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A call for creative resistance by artists, including K–12 art teachers and students.
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The right-wing media is on the attack against the Zinn Education Project. In their Red Scare vitriol, these media outlets discredit activism and critical analysis in people’s history. The real targets of these attacks are the educators who teach outside the textbook.
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Historian Jeanne Theoharis returned to discuss her book, King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South with renowned civil rights lawyer Sherrilyn Ifill. This class was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.
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Thanks to the generous support of Dave Colapinto, donations made through Giving Tuesday (Dec. 2) will be DOUBLED up to $10,000.
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Resources for Indigenous Peoples’ Day and all year to teach outside the textbook.
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For Latinx (also called Latine) Heritage Month, we offer free lessons and recommendations for books and films.
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In hundreds of classrooms on Constitution Day, students examined who was invited to write the Constitution (and who was excluded) and what rights are included — and which are left out. Here are their stories.
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Scholar Eve L. Ewing spoke about her book, Original Sins: The (Mis)Education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism, an examination of how the U.S. school system helps maintain racial inequality and social hierarchies. This class was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.
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It is essential that students know their rights: not just to pass a test, but to protect themselves. We offer FIVE ways to Teach Truth on Constitution Day.
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We offer a new timeline of the climate crisis that traces its roots from European colonial expansion and racial capitalism to present-day fossil fuel industry and government projects that exploit and destroy the Earth in the name of maximum profit. It also emphasizes moments and movements of resistance and activism that inform climate justice work today.
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Free speech activist Mary Beth Tinker on the importance of teaching truthfully about the U.S. Constitution.
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Studying the Constitution is essential — especially now, as constitutional rights are increasingly under attack. We offer activities to teach truthfully about the Constitution on Constitition Day and all year long.
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Our congratulations to Valencia Abbott of Wentworth, North Carolina for her being selected as the 2025 National History Teacher of the Year by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.
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The Zinn Education Project has produced a series of lessons and a collection of discussion questions for How the Word Is Passed by Clint Smith to help teachers introduce the central role of slavery in U.S. history classes across the country.
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Author and educator Clint Smith discussed the new young readers edition of How the Word Is Passed: Remembering Slavery and How It Shaped America, which was adapted by Sonja Cherry-Paul. This class was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.
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