After students study the history of Columbus, the first question is invariably, "Why are we celebrating this murderer with a holiday?"
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The People’s Historians Online mini-class on Black Left: 1930s to the Early 1950s with Robin D. G. Kelley and Cierra Kaler-Jones on May 22, 2020.
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Students deserve a curriculum that helps them make sense of this moment, and that explores the connections between crises.
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Workshop on the long and ongoing struggle for voting rights and ethnic studies.
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Michael Charney's vision, strategy, and generosity have made the Teach Reconstruction campaign possible.
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Author Kelly Lytle Hernández spoke about the magonistas, a group of agitators who challenged Mexican dictator Porfirio Díaz in the early 20th century. This session is part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.
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For the Howard Zinn Centennial, we are compiling and sharing quotes by Howard Zinn. Join us and share your favorite Zinn quote with #HowardZinn100.
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Look for Me in the Whirlwind: Panther 21, author event on Thursday, February 16, 2023.
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Online classes for educators on teaching the Black Freedom Struggle. People's historians interviewed by classroom teachers and teacher educators.
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A sampling of Howard Zinn's essays, quotes, trial testimonies, and correspondence related to prisons and prisoners.
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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.
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By Bill Bigelow.
On the 10th anniversary of his death, we remember Howard Zinn wanted educators to be deeply critical, but never cynical.
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As Ta-Nehisi Coates points out in this article, the secession of Southern states was triggered by one thing: the desperate quest to preserve slavery.
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Chicken plant workers died when a preventable workplace "accident" trapped them in a burning building.
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The cover-up of the Iran-Contra scandal began to unravel when Eugene Hasenfus was captured by Nicaraguan troops.
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As student contests are currently being held for California mission models, we revisit this article…
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