Popular Lessons

People’s History IS in the Classroom

The right is doing all they can to suppress the teaching of history, but they are not succeeding.

How do we know?

Check out the lessons that were most frequently downloaded from the Zinn Education Project website this year.

Topics include:

Environmental Racism
McCarthyism
COINTELPRO
Reconstruction
Black Panthers
and more.

Read about the list of lessons and donate so that we can provide more teachers with these lessons in 2024.

Reconstruction-Teach-In-Post-Its-Board-300x300 image

Rethinking Multicultural Education

New 3rd Edition

From book bans, to teacher firings, to racist content standards, the politics of teaching race and culture in schools have shifted dramatically in recent years.

This 3rd edition of Rethinking Multicultural Education, edited by Wayne Au, has been greatly revised and expanded to reflect these changing times.

Order your copy today and register for the launch event on December 13.

Rethinking-Multicultural-Education-book-cover image

Order New Book

Michael Hines

Black Women Teachers in the Early Fight

for Black History in Schools

In the latest Teach the Black Freedom Struggle conversation, Cierra Kaler-Jones and Jesse Hagopian talked to Michael Hines about his new book, A Worthy Piece of Work: The Untold Story of Madeline Morgan and the Fight for Black History in Schools.

Drop everything to listen to this three-minute audiogram from Hines’ talk.

The full recording and resources are at the link below.

Recording and Resources

The Crisis Continues

Teaching About Palestine and Israel

Many education groups are providing resources for teaching about the crisis as a “conflict” rooted in antisemitism and Islamophobia. That sole emphasis is misleading.

Students need to study how the current crisis is shaped in large part by settler colonial history, land, water, conditions of apartheid, and the geopolitical motivations of world powers.

Each week we add more resources to our online collection to help students learn the roots of the current crisis, including lessons and articles from Rethinking Schools, books for K–12, podcasts and films, calls to action, and infographics.

Teaching Resources

Climate Emergency

Media Silence Compounds the Risk

The past year was the warmest year in recorded history.

Last month was the warmest October in recorded history — by a wide margin.

The Earth is changing in frightening ways.

Hurricane-Otis-damage-via-satellite image

However, the climate crisis receives little to no mainstream media coverage and context.

To help break that silence in the classroom, we offer Teach Climate Justice campaign resources, including free downloadable lessons, a climate crisis timeline, recommended books and films for the classroom, articles, and a sample school board climate justice resolution.

Teach Climate Justice

Join Us In Nashville

Annual Social Studies Teachers Conference

If you are going to the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) annual conference in Nashville from Dec. 1–3, check out our workshops on Reparations, the Black Panther Party, climate justice, and more. Visit our interactive booth to learn about our people’s history lessons, climate crisis timeline, Reconstruction report, and Teaching for Black Lives study groups. Meet Rethinking Schools editors and see a collection of Rethinking Schools publications.

ZEP at the NCSS Conference

More Events for People’s History Educators

We Need Your Help

Double Your Donation

Teachers are under attack for teaching truthfully about U.S. history, racism, foreign policy, and gender justice.

zLclST90ghcqOglLQ3W13ZmT7OAEUFwYQLPId4e3 image

Please donate so that we can continue to offer free people’s history lessons and resources and defend teachers’ right to use them.

In honor of our 15th anniversary, whistleblower attorney Dave Colapinto is doubling all donations up to $15,000 through Giving Tuesday (November 28). Donate today and double your support!

Donate Today

Donate Now

COORDINATED BY:

PO BOX 73038, WASHINGTON, D.C. 20056

202-588-7205 | zinnedproject.org