We offer this #TeachTruthSyllabus as a gesture of defiance and education. The Right would be happy to keep the conversation at the level of obfuscation, divorced from reality and history. We, on the other hand, want to talk about the truth — the truth about our past and present, the truth about our classrooms and curricula.

Teach truth media toolkit with talking points, responses to FAQs, and best practices.

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Check out our plans to bring people's history to more classrooms in 2023.

Teacher stories about using lessons from the Zinn Education Project.

People’s history was made in Georgia on December 6 when Sen. Raphael Warnock was re-elected to the U.S. Senate thanks to grassroots organizing efforts. Share your stories of teaching people’s history lessons and the resistance you may face in doing so.

More than 11,000 teachers signed up to access people’s history lessons in 2022.

New Jersey educators are invited to engage their students in the Second Annual Model Gary Student Convention.

Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll selected the Teaching for Black Lives campaign for My Cause, My Cleats.

Erasing the Black Freedom Struggle: How State Standards Fail to Teach the Truth About Reconstruction is now in print.

A panel centering the voices of students and teachers on the conditions in schools and how to build a just future.

The Zinn Education Project is one of CREDO’s grant recipients for the month of December. This can make a huge difference. How much we receive depends on you. Your vote is critical and takes less than a minute. Cast your vote today.

Bryan Stevenson discussed his book, Just Mercy, the Legacy Museum, the history of racial terror in the United States, and the attacks on teaching honestly about U.S. history. This session was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.

We were overwhelmed by the support on Giving Tuesday for the Zinn Education Project. Not only did people step up with donations, they also shared moving dedications and comments.

All donations on Giving Tuesday will be matched up to $10,000 thanks to the generous support of Dave Colapinto who was Howard Zinn’s student at Boston University and currently works to defend whistleblowers.

A new lesson offers dozens of primary source documents to help students explore the Reconstruction era.

Right wing politicians and media outlets are attacking educators’ most basic responsibility — to teach young people accurately and truthfully. Officials in at least 42 states have sought — and in many cases succeeded — to enact restrictions on what teachers can say about history and current events.

People's historian Staughton Lynd died on Nov. 17 after an extraordinary life as a conscientious objector, peace activist and civil rights activist, tax resister, professor, author, and lawyer.

As voters navigate waves of voter suppression during the midterm elections, here are lessons, books, and other resources for teaching about the struggle for voting rights.

Matt Delmont shared stories from his new book, Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad. This session was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.

Listen to the audiograms of people's history scholars from the Teach the Black Freedom Struggle monthly online classes.

Author Ashley Farmer was in conversation with Cierra Kaler-Jones about Queen Mother Audley Moore (1898–1997), one of the most influential activists and thinkers of the 20th century. This session is part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.

The year 2022 marks the 100th anniversary of Howard Zinn’s birth on August 24, 1922, in Brooklyn. Although Howard died in 2010, his work continues to inform and inspire educators around the world.