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Teaching People's History | The Zinn Education Project
Free lessons and resources for teaching people’s history in K-12 classrooms. For use with books by Howard Zinn and others on multicultural, women’s, and labor...
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Teaching for Black Lives Campaign - Zinn Education Project
Mar 6, 2025 - Teachers around the United States face the challenge of how to teach in the midst of daily news about threats to Black voting rights, education, and
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The Zinn Education Projects | Annual Teach Projects | What we've done
Since launching in 2008, the Zinn Education Project has grown exponentially, reaching educators and activists across the United States and around the globe....
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Dec. 19, 2008: Tim DeChristopher Protests Bureau of Land Management - Zinn Education Project
Tim DeChristopher of Peaceful Uprising protested a Bureau of Land Management auction of public land in Utah’s redrock country.
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Teaching the American Revolution - Zinn Education Project
The U.S. Department of Education launched the America 250 Civics Coalition as part of this administration’s plans to celebrate “a new era of American
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Abolish Columbus Day Campaign - Zinn Education Project
It is time to stop celebrating the crimes of Columbus and stand in solidarity with the Indigenous people who demand an end to Columbus Day. Instead
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Teaching The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks - Zinn Education Project
Dec 1, 2023 - To facilitate use of the book and film in the classroom, the Zinn Education Project is coordinating book distribution and film screenings, as well as making...
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Teaching About Palestine-Israel and the Unfolding Genocide in Gaza - Zinn Education Project
Mar 12, 2026 - At Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change we are outraged by the ongoing slaughter in Gaza, and the rising death toll in the West Bank.
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New Lessons - Zinn Education Project
New lessons for teaching people's history.
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What Teachers Are Saying - Zinn Education Project
Here are just a few of the hundreds of comments we have received from teachers about the impact of Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States, and...
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Teaching Media Literacy on Palestine-Israel - Zinn Education Project
Mar 12, 2026 - Journalist and author Norman Solomon joined Rethinking Schools editor and high school teacher Jesse Hagopian to discuss how Solomon’s book, War Made Invisible:...
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Sept. 27, 1962: Silent Spring Published - Zinn Education Project
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson was published.
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Why Teach "People's History"? - The Importance of History | Zinn Education Project
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“Founding” Documents We Don’t Learn About - Zinn Education Project
Teaching Activity. By Mimi Eisen. 2025. 51 pages. A set of primary source documents and teaching activities reveal a profound cast of voices from the era of...
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Simulating Redlining: When “Race Was the Real Currency” - Zinn Education Project
Teaching Activity. By Adam Sanchez. Rethinking Schools. A high school social studies teacher describes a classroom simulation where students experience the...
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Zinn Education Project - Teaching for Change
Jul 31, 2024 - Teaching for Change and Rethinking Schools collaborate to bring a people's history to the classroom.
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Earth Day in the Midst of a Climate Emergency - Zinn Education Project
May 3, 2023 - This year, Earth Day arrives with crisis layered upon crisis. The emergency of climate chaos frames everything.
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Teaching the Fight for Queer Liberation - Zinn Education Project
Teaching Activity. By Nick Palazzolo. Rethinking Schools. 2025. 74 pages. A dilemma-based, problem-solving lesson on the history of the fight for queer...
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Who Gets to Tell the Story of Reconstruction, and Why Does It Matter? - Zinn Education Project
Teaching Activity. By Matt Vriesman. 60 pages. A three-day lesson that engages students in historiography, primary sources, pop-up debates, and blackout poetry...
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Dec. 17, 1951: “We Charge Genocide” Petition Submitted to United Nations - Zinn Education Project
Paul Robeson and William Patterson submitted a petition from the Civil Rights Congress (CRC) to the United Nations, signed by almost 100 U.S. intellectuals and...
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“Starcups Workers Unite!” — Students Learn Their Workplace Rights - Zinn Education Project
Teaching Activity. By Nicolle Fefferman. 2025. Rethinking Schools. The director of the Young Workers Education Project and a Prentiss Charney Fellow describes...
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“We the People”: Whose Rights Does the Constitution Protect? - Zinn Education Project
Teaching Activity. By Jesse Hagopian. 40 pages. A lesson to help students consider not just what the Constitution says, but what it leaves out.
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Beyond Loyalists and Patriots - Zinn Education Project
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...
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Explore by Time Period - Zinn Education Project
Dozens of downloadable teaching activities, books, films, and websites that you can explore by time period.
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Letter to MCPS on Actions Toward Teachers About Palestine and Israel - Zinn Education Project
Dec 12, 2023 - At least four public school teachers in Montgomery County, Maryland have been placed on administrative leave for public expressions of support for...
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If We Knew Our History - Zinn Education Project
The Zinn Education Project’s “If We Knew Our History” series features articles by teachers, journalists, and scholars that highlight inadequacies in the
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Workshops and Conferences - Zinn Education Project
Conferences, classes, institutes, and other events for social justice educators. Also, join the Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online classes with
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Feb. 12, 1958: Popular TV Program Warns of Global Warming - Zinn Education Project
Feb 12, 2025 - The popular, educational Bell Laboratories Science series aired a new chapter in the series on prime-time television which warned that CO₂ emissions from...
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Workshops - Zinn Education Project
The Zinn Education Project offers workshops tailored to our Teach Climate Justice, Teach Reconstruction, Teach Rosa Parks, and the Teach the Black Freedom
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Popular Lessons - Zinn Education Project
These are some of the most frequently downloaded lessons from the Zinn Education Project website. Despite and in response to the Executive Orders
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Martin Luther King in New York City - Zinn Education Project
Teaching Activity. By Jeanne Theoharis and Jessica Lovaas. 2026. 10 pages. Reading, discussion questions, and activity about Martin Luther King's activism in...
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Climate Crisis Timeline - Zinn Education Project
May 27, 2026 - We offer a new timeline of the climate crisis that traces its roots from European colonial expansion and racial capitalism to present-day fossil fuel industry...
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