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.

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.

Share a story about your activities on Constitution Day.

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.

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.

Lessons, books, articles, films, and upcoming events on labor history.

A statement from the Zinn Education Project on teaching truthfully about the Constitution.

To assist with efforts to teach truthfully — and invite inquiry — about the Constitution, we offer 10 ways to rethink this founding document. The list can be used for discussion, and to critique whitewashed narratives peppered across curricula and public life.

In the face of unabashedly racist policies and practices, here are some resources related to public monuments and historic sites to help students consider why an accurate knowledge of history matters.

Hundreds of educators register for free each month at the Zinn Education Project to access lessons and other resources. Here’s why.

Examples of the U.S. government holding people in concentration camps.

The Zinn Education Project supports Teaching for Black Lives study groups each year. Apply to host a group.

As the climate crisis accelerates, our Teach Climate Justice resources — free lessons, articles, a climate crisis timeline, and more — are becoming more and more valuable in the classroom.

15,000 copies of The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, the young readers’ edition of a book by acclaimed historian Jeanne Theoharis, adapted by award-winning YA author Brandy Colbert, have been shipped to teachers requesting copies to pair with their history or language arts curriculum.

Thanks to generous donors, the Zinn Education Project gave 450 copies of Eve Ewing’s Original Sins to educators around the country.

We engaged with educators from around the country at the National Education Association Conference on Racial and Social Justice in Portland, Oregon.

A story and corrido (ballad) about the 1930s deportation of Mexican Americans.

Thank you to the staff of the Zinn Education Project for trusting and supporting educators and students, and for providing resources to teach truth.

With the airwaves full of inflammatory rhetoric about immigrants and I.C.E. raids in countless communities, we provide lessons, teaching guides, and other recommended resources for teaching honestly and critically about immigration.

Highlights from 2025 Teach Truth events around the United States.

Thanks to a generous donation from One Signal Publishers, 300 copies of Jason Stanley's Erasing History were donated to educators around the country in preparation for the 5th annual Teach Truth Day of Action.

The D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice hosted a Teach Truth day of action event at the Mall — marching (with a brass band) from the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) to the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI).

On the #TeachTruth Day of Action, every Lush store in the United States installed a display about banned books, featuring the picture book Fry Bread and a link to learn more at the Zinn Education Project.