June 27, 1954: Elected Guatemalan Leader Overthrown in CIA-Backed Coup
Democratically elected Guatemalan president Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán was deposed in a CIA-sponsored coup.
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Theme: Wars & Related Anti-War Movements
Wars & Related Anti-War Movements
Dec. 30, 1971: Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo Jr. Indicted for Releasing the Pentagon Papers
Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony J. “Tony” Russo Jr. were indicted for releasing the Pentagon Papers, detailing the secret history of U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
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March 20, 2003: Iraq War Invasion
It’s worth pausing to note how profoundly corporate textbooks mis-educate our students on the years of warfare in Iraq.
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April 23, 1968: Columbia Student Occupation
Students for a Democratic Society, Student Afro-American Society and others began a nonviolent occupation of campus buildings at Columbia University.
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March 22, 1969: DC 9 Protest Dow Chemical Production of Napalm
Nine protesters smashed glass, hurled files out a fourth floor window, and poured blood on files and furniture at the Dow Chemical offices in Washington, D.C.
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War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine
Book — Non-fiction. By Norman Solomon. 2023. 240 pages.
Too often, our curriculum “makes war invisible.” Too often, the ravages of U.S. militarism go unexamined in our classes. This fact-filled book insists: Teach about this; people’s lives depend on it.
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Too often, our curriculum “makes war invisible.” Too often, the ravages of U.S. militarism go unexamined in our classes. This fact-filled book insists: Teach about this; people’s lives depend on it.
Jan. 10, 1942: Lee Street Massacre
A month after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Black soldiers on R&R in the town of Alexandria, Louisiana were attacked by local and military police, with dozens murdered and countless others injured in this brutal instance of Jim Crow violence.
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Jan. 27, 1975: Church Committee Formed
The Church Committee was an investigation into the covert operations of the U.S. intelligence community, including the FBI, CIA, and NSA, and their attacks on subversives and “enemies of the state.”
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Until the Last Gun Is Silent
Historian Matthew Delmont joined Rethinking Schools executive director Cierra Kaler-Jones to discuss his latest book Until the Last Gun Is Silent: A Story of Patriotism, the Vietnam War, and the Fight to Save America’s Soul. This class was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.
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The Costs of War
Digital collection. Publishes public-facing research about the broad consequences of U.S. military operations and spending, including their domestic effects, and the ongoing costs of the U.S. post-9/11 wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and beyond.
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Until the Last Gun Is Silent
Book — Non-fiction. By Matthew F. Delmont. 2026. 368 pages.
The history of the Vietnam War with a focus on the African American experience in the antiwar movement and as returning soldiers.
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The history of the Vietnam War with a focus on the African American experience in the antiwar movement and as returning soldiers.
Remember Us
Short Film. By Pablo Leon. 2024. 14 minutes.
In this animated historical fiction film, a journalist documents the experiences of three people who lived through the tragic 12-year-long Salvadoran Civil War in the 1980s.
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In this animated historical fiction film, a journalist documents the experiences of three people who lived through the tragic 12-year-long Salvadoran Civil War in the 1980s.
Vietnam War Teaching Resources
We offer lessons, films, and this day in people’s history entries to teach about the Vietnam War and the anti-war movement.
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Beyond Loyalists and Patriots
Teaching Activity. By Tiferet Ani and Mimi Eisen. 2026. 27 pages.
In this mixer lesson, students surface choices and outcomes navigated by an array of Black and Indigenous people in the American Revolution to examine what freedom meant to those excluded from it at the U.S. founding.
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In this mixer lesson, students surface choices and outcomes navigated by an array of Black and Indigenous people in the American Revolution to examine what freedom meant to those excluded from it at the U.S. founding.
May 15, 1948: The Palestinian Nakba
The Nakba (“catastrophe” in Arabic) was the violent and systemic expulsion of nearly 75 percent of all Palestinians from their homes and homeland by Zionist militias and the new Israeli army in the years surrounding the establishmen of Israel in May 1948.
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