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In January of 2021, two bills were proposed in Arkansas to restrict teaching about race, social class, solidarity, and the 1619 Project. Similar bills are being proposed in a growing number of states.

Clint Smith spoke with educators about his new book, How the Word Is Passed, and related classroom resources.

Pat Michelsen and Eric Dean generously offered to match donations up to $15,000 in support of the Zinn Education Project Teach Reconstruction campaign.

Dr. Tera W. Hunter was in conversation with Jeanne Theoharis about the historical context for the election victory in Georgia and to share insights from her research into freed women's lives, including the striking washerwomen of Atlanta.

Beginning in late March 2020, the Zinn Education Project, in collaboration with Dr. Theoharis and dozens of scholars and activists, launched online classes for educators with people’s historians.

In an International Women's Day online class, part of the Teach the Black Freedom Struggle campaign, the authors of A Black Women's History of the United States shared stories and insights from their book.

North Carolina teachers are invited to attend an interactive, introductory workshop on the Zinn Education Project.

Thank you to athletes Shaquill and Shaquem Griffin, and the artist Keegan Hall, whose signed prints of his piece "Griffin Brothers" will benefit our Teach the Black Freedom Struggle campaign.

Generous donors made it possible for us to send people's history books and lessons to teachers in Mississippi, to counter the "Patriotic Education Fund."

On January 11, 2021, to celebrate the launch of a new book, Jeanne Theoharis spoke about Rosa Parks’ activism prior to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, her trip to the Highlander Folk School, and the decades she dedicated to challenging racism in the North.

Here are various ways that everyone can support and advocate for the teaching of people's history. 

U.S. history reveals both the roots of our cruel status quo and its possible antidote. Young people deserve an education that helps them understand how and why we are in this wretched mess, but never leaves them hopeless.

Here is a reason to look forward to 2021 — new people's history books.

On Thursday, Sept. 17, at the White House Conference on American History, right-wing historians took aim at the Zinn Education Project, Howard Zinn, and the New York Times 1619 Project.

In the fall of 2020, we launched 28 Teaching for Black Lives Study Groups across the United States.

These lessons teach students the history of the Black freedom struggle — from resistance to enslavement to redlining to the ongoing fight for voting rights and reparations — in the United States.

In response to the governor's proposed "Patriotic Education Fund," we ask for your help to provide people's history books and lessons to Mississippi middle and high school teachers and librarians.