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What Happened to the Civil Rights Movement After 1965? Don’t Ask Your Textbook

Last month, West Virginia teachers inspired us with your victorious nine-day statewide strike. From the national media coverage, one of the things that struck us at the Zinn Education Project was the power of teacher stories. From Oklahoma to Kentucky and across the country teachers everywhere are eager to learn from the recent struggle in West Virginia, and we want to help amplify those stories.

What the Koch Brothers Want Students to Learn About Slavery

By Bill Bigelow “Wear green on St. Patrick’s Day or get pinched.” That pretty much sums up the Irish-American “curriculum” that I learned when I was in school. Yes, I recall a nod to the so-called Potato Famine, but it was mentioned only in passing. Sadly, today’s high school textbooks continue to largely ignore the famine, despite the fact that it was responsible for unimaginable suffering and the deaths of more than a million Irish peasants, and that it triggered the greatest wave of Irish immigration in U.S. history. Nor do textbooks make any attempt to help students link famines past and present.

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Disguising Imperialism: How Textbooks Get the Cold War Wrong and Dupe Students

By Adam Sanchez Given that the billionaire Charles Koch has poured millions of dollars into eliminating the minimum wage and paid sick leave for workers, and that in 2015 he had the gall to compare his ultra-conservative mission to the anti-slavery movement, he’s probably the last person you’d want educating young people about slavery. Yet the history-teaching wing of the Koch brothers empire is seeking to promote an alternate narrative to slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction.

Missing from Presidents’ Day: The People They Enslaved

Tune into the 1A radio show on Monday, February 19 at 11 AM EST for "How Do You Teach Slavery?" which focuses on a new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center called "Teaching Hard History: American Slavery." The show features Adam Sanchez, Zinn Education Project organizer and curriculum writer.

What Spielberg’s The Post — and Our Textbooks — Leave Out

Article. By Bill Bigelow. 2018. If We Knew Our History series. The Post focuses on the debate to publish the Pentagon Papers, and misses an opportunity to explore the lies that made the Pentagon Papers so meaningful in the first place.

The Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated the United States

On Monday, The Washington Post columnist Courtland Milloy spoke with students and teachers in D.C. who are studying Native American history with lessons from the Zinn Education Project.

When Black Lives Mattered: Why Teach Reconstruction

We want to alert you to two people's history events coming in November. The Zinn Education Project will have a booth at the National Council for the Social Studies Conference (NCSS) at the Moscone Center, Nov. 17-18. Immediately following the NCSS Conference will be the Howard Zinn Book Fair, Nov. 19 at City College.

Christopher Columbus: No Monuments for Murderers

By Amy Graff, SFGATE For decades, every American kid in a schoolyard has known Christopher Columbus as the Italian explorer who "in 1492, sailed the ocean blue." But that little ditty is being phased out faster than you can name the explorer's three ships.