On Monday, February 6, 2023, author Jeanne Theoharis will discuss Rosa Parks’ activism prior to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, her trip to the Highlander Folk School, and the decades she dedicated to challenging racism in the North. This session is part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.

Historian Dayo Gore shared stories about Black women radicals who were active in revolutionary struggle during the Red Scare. This session was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.

Help us bring the young readers edition of The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks to more classrooms.

Roslyn Pope, author of An Appeal for Human Rights in 1960, died on January 19, 2023 at the age of 84.

For two years, new education standards for history and social science classes have been drafted in a public process. As those new standards come up for formal adoption, the Virginia Department of Education under Gov. Glenn Youngkin has proposed their own revisions, in consultation with Hillsdale College, proponents of the right wing 1776 Curriculum.

On March 20, 2023, historian Kidada E. Williams will discuss her new book, I Saw Death Coming, which offers a breakthrough account of the much-debated Reconstruction period. This session is part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.

The Zinn Education Project hosted an interactive panel discussion on teaching Reconstruction at the American Historical Association annual meeting in Philadelphia.

H-PAD is mobilizing its member historians to oppose the right-wing’s lies and distortions about what is and what is not being taught in schools and to stand up for educational freedom.

Background reading and actions in response to Republican anti-history education laws.

An open letter signed by more than 240 prominent scholars of U.S. history urging school districts to devote more time and resources to teaching the Reconstruction era.

We look forward to the 2023 National Coalition for the Social Studies conference in Nashville.

Look for Me in the Whirlwind: Panther 21, author event on Thursday, February 16, 2023.

Check out our plans to bring people's history to more classrooms in 2023.

Lawmakers continue to enact laws that will make it harder to vote. Help us reach more teachers with people's history lessons on voting rights in 2023.

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

Teacher stories about using lessons from the Zinn Education Project.

People’s history was made in Georgia on December 6 when Sen. Raphael Warnock was re-elected to the U.S. Senate thanks to grassroots organizing efforts. Share your stories of teaching people’s history lessons and the resistance you may face in doing so.

The Players Coalition, founded by former NFL players Anquan Boldin and Malcolm Jenkins, made a donation to the Teaching for Black Lives campaign.

More than 11,000 teachers signed up to access people’s history lessons in 2022.

New Jersey educators are invited to engage their students in the Second Annual Model Gary Student Convention.