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.

Stories from educators about Teach Truth on Constitution Day.

Scholar Eve L. Ewing will discuss 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 session is part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.

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.

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.

Online classes for educators on teaching the Black Freedom Struggle. People's historians interviewed by classroom teachers and teacher educators.

While education is central to the fascist agenda, it is not getting adequate attention from progressive forces. You can help shine a light on education by joining the campaign to Teach Truth.

Just like today, the mass kidnapping and deportation of Mexican Americans during the Great Depression had little to do with law, but is rather a program of “racial expulsion.” These lessons from history can help us today.

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.

Scholar Joshua Clark Jackson will discuss his new book Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back. This session is part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.

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.