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January 2024
Lies We’re Told About Crime
     
December 2023
Resources for Educators on Palestine, Israel, and the Climate
December 2023
People’s History Teaching in Action
December 2023
Free Copies of Book on African Americans During World War II
December 2023
Mark Your 2024 Calenders
November 2023
The Fight for Black History in Schools
November 2023
African American Veterans Face Terrorism in U.S.
November 2023
Native American Heritage
November 2023
Teachers Won’t Be Silenced
October 2023
Banned Books Week
October 2023
Indigenous Peoples’ Day Resources
October 2023
A People’s History of the Black Working Class
October 2023
Teaching About the Ongoing Crisis
September 2023
Teachers Describe Chilling Impact of Anti-Education Laws
September 2023
Climate Crisis Has No History in Textbooks
September 2023
Announcing 2023–2024 Teaching for Black Lives Study Groups
September 2023
Banned Books Week: Defend the Right to Study People’s History
August 2023
Fire in Maui Was NOT a Natural Disaster
August 2023
Teaching a People’s History of the March on Washington
August 2023
Labor History Censored on Labor Day
September 2023
Labor History Censored on Labor Day
July 2023
Make Some Noise, End Climate Silence
July 2023
The lesson on COINTELPRO electrified my students.
July 2023
Teaching in Dangerous Times: Lessons from SNCC
August 2023
Freedom School for Educators — Teach the Black Freedom Struggle
June 2023
How YOU Can Participate in the Teach Truth Day of Action
June 2023
Not Allowed to Teach About Juneteenth
June 2023
Uplifting Photos and Stories From the Teach Truth Days of Action
July 2023
Teacher Receives Termination Notice for Reading “My Shadow Is Purple”
May 2023
Centering Africa, Pete Carroll Presents Award, Teach Truth Day of Action
May 2023
One Way to Defend Teach Truth and LGBTQ+ Rights
May 2023
People’s History of Memorial Day and Free Books
 June 2023
From Stonewall to Stone Mountain: Banned Book Swaps and Teach-Ins
April 2023
New Environmental Justice Lesson for Earth Day
April 2023
Teaching for Black Lives Study Group Applications Are Open
April 2023
Five Ways Textbooks Lie About Reconstruction
April 2023
Louisville Students Document Local History of Enslavement
March 2023
Study Groups Challenge Chilling Effect
March 2023
New Reconstruction Lesson
March 2023
ZEP at SXSW, Kidada Williams, and more
April 2023
Lessons the Right Wing Does Not Want Taught
March 2023
Teach Reconstruction Making the News
March 2023
Open Letter to the College Board
March 2023
Teaching Stories and Free Books
March 2023
Bryan Stevenson, Book Bans, and more
January 2023
Florida People’s History Banned from the Classroom
February 2023
Defy the Censorship,
Help Us Send Teaching for Black Lives Books to Florida
February 2023
Teach Banned History
February 2023
Lessons the Right Wing Does Not Want Taught
January 2023
Rosa Parks Lessons, Film, and More
January 2023
I Was Blown Away: Reconstruction Report Anniversary
January 2023
Martin Luther King Jr. on Reconstruction and Police Brutality
January 2023
Lessons for Today’s McCarthyism
December 2022
Free Climate Justice Teaching Resource
December 2022
Good News: People’s History Is Reaching More Classrooms
November 2022
Teach the Struggle
for Voting Rights
November 2022
New Reconstruction Lesson: Dozens of Primary Documents
November 2022
Two-Minute
People’s History Lessons
December 2022
100 Teaching for Black Lives Study Groups: 2022–2023 School Year
October 2022
From Florida to Oregon: Reconstruction Throughout the U.S.
October 2022
New Book on African Americans During World War II, Free for Teachers
October 2022
Major U.S. History Scholars Appeal to School Districts: Teach Reconstruction
October 2022
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
September 2022
Howard Zinn Centennial Events, Follow Up
September 2022
Banned Books Week
September 2022
People’s History Art for the Classroom
October 2022
Indigenous Peoples’ Day
August 2022
Teach Current Events, Free Lessons
August 2022
Howard Zinn Centennial Events
August 2022
Howard Zinn Centennial, People’s History Lessons, and more
September 2022
Teach Jackson, Teach Climate Justice
July 2022
Name and Confront White Supremacy and White Terror
August 2022
In the News: People’s History Teachers
August 2022
“Don’t Obey the Rules” Howard Zinn’s Advice to a Future History Teacher
August 2022
Reconstruction Report Offer
June 2022
Breaking the Book Ban
June 2022
Make Good the Promises Teacher Workshop on Reconstruction
June 2022
#TeachTruth Days of Action
 July 2022
Introducing the 2022-2023 Prentiss Charney Fellows
May 2022
Teaching Against Climate Despair
June 2022
Challenge the Lost Cause Narrative in Schools
June 2022
#TeachTruth Days of Action
June 2022
Climate Chaos is Crashing Through the World
April 2022
May Day: Labor History in the Classroom
May 2022
Teaching About the Supreme Court and Reproductive Justice
May 2022
Free Copies of the Young Readers Edition of “The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks”
May 2022
People’s History Workshops, Classes, Study Groups, and Teach Truth Days of Action
March 2022
Podcast and Free Books for Teaching People’s History Stories
March 2022
The Real Irish American Story Not Taught on St. Patrick’s Day
April 2022
The People’s History They Don’t Want Our Students to Know
April 2022
Earth Day in the Midst of a Climate Emergency
February 2022
Black women activists banned from history lessons
February 2022
Classroom Resources for Teaching People’s History
February 2022
People’s History Is Elementary
February 2022
The People’s History They Don’t Want Our Students to Know
January 2022
Commemorate the anniversary and people’s history.
January 2022
Free Subscription to Rethinking Schools Magazine!
January 2022
Hot Off the Press: National Report on Teaching Reconstruction
January 2022
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Reconstruction
December 2021
25,000 More Teachers in 2021
   
November 2021
North Dakota Bans Teaching About Structural Racism
November 2021
From Times Square to the Classroom
December 2021
Extreme Weather? Teach Climate Justice
December 2021
State Standards Fail to Teach the Truth About Reconstruction
August 2021
Teaching in Dangerous Times
September 2021
#TeachTruth About Constitution Day
September 2021
Uplifting Teach Truth Photos and Stories
November 2021
Black Veterans Killed in Fight for Democracy, Job Opening, Fugitive Pedagogy
August 2021
James W. Loewen, In Memory
August 2021
Educators Pledge to #TeachTruth from Anchorage, Alaska to Athens, Georgia
August 2021
Teaching in Dangerous Times
August 2021
Urgent Call: Teach Climate Justice
July 2021
Pledge to #TeachTruth Summer of Action
July 2021
Teach Truth Pledge Days of Action
August 2021
#TeachTruth Syllabus
August 2021
Urgent Call: Teach Climate Justice
April 2021
Teach the Poetry of People’s History
April 2021
Celebrate Earth Day and Teach Climate Justice
June 2021
Five Ways to Participate in the June 12 Day of Action
June 2021
Juneteenth 2021: Teach Outside the Textbook
February 2021
Another Weather Emergency, Another Urgent Reminder to Teach Climate Justice
March 2021
The Real Irish American Story Not Taught on St. Patrick’s Day
March 2021
Dear Educators, It Is Time to Fight for Asian America
April 2021
Major Scholars Sign Open Letter on Reconstruction
January 2021
Teaching After Georgia Victory and Attempted Coup
January 2021
Teach Climate Disobedience with a New Lesson
February 2021
Black Panther Party in the News and the Classroom
February 2021
New! Publications from Rethinking Schools, a Podcast Recommendation, and People’s History Books for Grades 3+


December 2020
Teach Climate Disobedience with a New Lesson
December 2020
We’re Under Attack — Defend the Right to Teach People’s History
December 2020
New People’s History Books for 2021
October 2020
Teaching About Voting Rights and Voter Suppression
November 2020
Teach the History of “Riots,” Racism, and the Police
November 2020
How To Lie to Students About an Election
November 2020
Mississippi Governor Attacks Teaching of People’s History
September 2020
Teach Current Events with People’s History
October 2020
Teach Indigenous Peoples’ Day
October 2020
People’s Historians Online Classes Resume
October 2020
Get Involved in the Black Lives Matter at School “Year of Purpose”
September 2020
New: A People’s History Pedagogy and Materials for Remote Teaching
September 2020
Black Lives Matter on Constitution Day
September 2020
White House Attacks Howard Zinn and the Zinn Education Project
September 2020
“There are other heroes young people can look up to.”
August 2020
Teaching for Black Lives Means Teaching About Reconstruction
August 2020
Teaching Materials for Educators and Families About the Pandemic
September 2020
Teaching the Vietnam War 75 Years After Independence
September 2020
Trump Threatens Schools Teaching People’s History
July 2020
Three victories. The struggle continues.
July 2020
Teaching Climate Justice in a Time of Perpetual Emergency
July 2020
New Book Giveaway, ‘Stamped’ Teaching Guide, and More
August 2020
‘Diversify Our Narrative’ Petition for Chicago Public Schools
June 2020
Teaching the Tulsa Massacre 99 Years Later
June 2020
Teaching the Roots of the Rebellion
June 2020
Monuments to Colonizers and Enslavers Are Tumbling Down
June 2020
When Statues Come Down, Students Can Determine a New Landscape
April 2020
Teaching Climate Justice and Celebrating Earth Day in a Pandemic
May 2020
Teach Labor History
May 2020
A New Lesson on Rosa Parks
May 2020
Memorial Day: Where It Began and Whom Will We Honor?
March 2020
Climate Justice Lessons from the Great Hunger
March 2020
People’s History in the Pandemic
April 2020
Teaching About Voting Rights — and Suppression — During the Pandemic
April 2020
Lessons from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
February 2020
Elementary Lessons and More at the Zinn Education Project
February 2020
Climate Justice Is a 21st Century Skill
March 2020
How to — and How Not to — Teach Role Plays
March 2020
Teach Women’s History Through People’s Movements
January 2020
Ten Years After Howard Zinn’s Death – Lessons from the People’s Historian
February 2020
New Lessons on Voting Rights on 15th Amendment Anniversary
February 2020
NEH Teacher Institutes, 15th Amendment Commemoration
February 2020
Teach Students to Question the President and the Struggle for Voting Rights
January 2020
Teach About Iran, Iraq, and the Escalating War
January 2020
People’s History Resources for Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action
January 2020
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: War is Unjust
January 2020
Conferences and Institutes in 2020

 
December 2019
Teacher Mini-Grants to Commemorate the 15th Amendment in 2020
December 2019
Teaching with New York Times 1619 Project
December 2019
Top 15 This Day in History Posts in 2019
November 2019
Help Shape Our Reconstruction Campaign in 2020 (150th Anniversary of the 15th Amendment)
November 2019
The Zinn Education Project will be at NCSS 2019, Nov. 22-23
November 2019
Join Our Campaign to Teach People’s History
December 2019
You’re One in 100,000!
October 2019
Abolish Columbus Day
October 2019
Fall Semester News
October 2019
Do you teach about the Great Depression and the New Deal?
October 2019
California Is Burning, Teach Climate Justice, and Stand with Chicago Teachers
September 2019
Remembering Red Summer: The 100th Anniversary of the Elaine Massacre
September 2019
I Commit to Teach Climate Justice
September 2019
New Reparations Lesson | Find Us at Conferences this Fall
September 2019
The Climate Crisis: Who’s to blame? Students decide in a trial role play
August 2019
I Pledge to Teach Climate Justice
August 2019
Two New Lessons About the Great Depression and the New Deal
August 2019
New Lesson on the History of Redlining
September 2019
Teaching Resistance in Dangerous Times
May 2019
Teach Climate Justice Workshops
May 2019
Teach Climate Justice? Tell Your Story and Get a Free Book.
June 2019
The Charney Challenge
July 2019
The Climate Crisis: Who’s to blame? Students may decide in a trial role play
April 2019
Remembering Red Summer — Which Textbooks Seem Eager to Forget
April 2019
Teach Climate Justice: New Lessons for Earth Day
April 2019
PBS Releases New Film on Reconstruction
April 2019
Teaching About Climate Justice with Poetry
February 2019
Resources for Presidents Day
March 2019
Students Strike for the Climate!
March 2019
The Real Irish American Story Not Taught in Schools
March 2019
Teaching a People’s History of Abolition and the Civil War
January 2019
What teachers are saying about using people’s history lessons from the Zinn Education Project
January 2019
Thank You — and Book Giveaway
 January 2019
Teach Reconstruction and Book Giveaway
January 2019
Rethinking Ethnic Studies
November 2018
Teach Native Lives and History All Year Long
December 2018
Have you seen our new website yet?
December 2018
People’s History Resources for Black Lives Matter Week of Action at School
October 2018
Whose History Matters?
October 2018
Howard Zinn on Supreme Court vs. Power of the People
October 2018
Downplaying Deportations: How Textbooks Hide the Mass Expulsion of Mexican Americans
November 2018
Join ZEP in Chicago; Today in 14th Amendment History; New Staff
September 2018
New Resource for South Carolina Teachers
September 2018
What Sam Wineburg Gets Wrong About Teaching Howard Zinn’s A People’s History
September 2018
Abolish Columbus Day
September 2018
More Civics Will Not Save Us from Trump
August 2018
The Other ’68: Black Power During Reconstruction
August 2018
Howard Zinn Born This Day in History in 1922
August 2018
New School Year, New ZEP Organizer!
September 2018
Teaching About the Attica Prison Uprising and the National Prison Strike
July 2018
Rethinking the 4th of July
July 2018
Colin Kaepernick and the Zinn Education Project
August 2018
Why We Should Teach About the FBI’s War on the Civil Rights Movement
August 2018
This fall, redouble our efforts to teach against racism
May 2018
Memorial Day: Where It Began and Whom Will We Honor?
June 2018
New Resources: Teach for Environmental Justice
June 2018
Milestone Films Donates to the Zinn Education Project
June 2018
Teach Reconstruction!
March 2018
The Real Irish American Story Not Taught in Schools
May 2018
Support the Teacher Rebellion on this International Workers’ Day
May 2018
Rethinking Cinco de Mayo
May 2018
New from Rethinking Schools: Teaching for Black Lives and #SchoolsToo
February 2018
Week of Action: Black Lives Matter at Schools | Free BLM resources
February 2018
Disguising Imperialism: How Textbooks Get the Cold War Wrong | Free Book Offer
March 2018
Women’s History: Continue the Fight for Justice
March 2018
What the Koch Brothers Want Students to Learn About Slavery
January 2018
Bring People’s History Teacher Workshops to Your City
January 2018
Don’t miss these conferences for social justice teachers
January 2018
What Spielberg’s The Post — and Our Textbooks — Leave Out
January 2018
Teaching Reconstruction: Stories from the Classroom | Free book!
November 2017
Bring People’s History Teacher Workshops to Your City
December 2017
100,000 teaching people’s history
December 2017
Bring people’s history to 100,000 classrooms
October 2017
Christopher Columbus: No Monuments for Murderers
October 2017
When Black Lives Mattered: Why Teach Reconstruction
November 2017
Teaching in the Time of Trump: Year One
November 2017
The Hidden History of U.S. Segregation | People’s History Events in San Francisco!
September 2017
People’s History Tool Kit: Resources for Teaching Outside the Textbook
September 2017
Fall Conferences | Trivia Night Returns! | Student Writing Contest
September 2017
Solidarity with Indigenous Peoples — Abolish Columbus Day!
September 2017
Teaching the Headlines: Climate Crisis and Nuclear War
May 2017
Bringing People’s History Resources to U.S. Classrooms
 July 2017
Let’s transform the teaching of history
August 2017
Fighting for Okinawa—My Home, Not a Military Base
August 2017
Taking the Fight Against White Supremacy into Schools
February 2017
Five Myths About Reconstruction | Book Giveaway
March 2017
Fight the Censorship of Howard Zinn in Arkansas Schools
March 2017
Real Irish American Story Not Taught in Schools
 April 2017
Victory: Arkansas’ Howard Zinn Witch-hunt Fizzles
January 2017
New Lesson: Standing with Standing Rock
January 2017
New Lesson: Reconstructing the South
February 2017
Tackling the Headlines: Teaching Humanity and History
February 2017
Teach Students to Question the President
 2016 December 2016
Students tell a different story
December 2016
Teaching People’s History Is More Urgent
December 2016
From Howard Zinn’s Daughter
November 2016
Howard Zinn on the Election of Trump
November 2016
Abolish Columbus Day Movement Surges | New How-to Guide | D.C. Trivia Night
December 2016
Get your t-shirt supporting people’s history!
 December 2016
Three Big Hits: Social Studies Conference, Trivia Night, and People’s History T-shirts
August 2016
People’s History Tool Kit: Resources for Teaching Outside the Textbook
September 2016
Solidarity with Indigenous Peoples — Abolish Columbus Day!
October 2016
Support Indigenous Rights: Abolish Columbus Day
 October 2016
What We Don’t Learn About the Black Panther Party—but Should
May 2016
Asian Americans in People’s History | 60,000 Teaching Outside the Textbook
 June 2016
What Happened to the Civil Rights Movement After 1965? Don’t Ask Your Textbook
 June 2016
A Stronger Community Thanks to You | Limbaugh Attacks | Abolish Columbus Day
 July 2016
To You from Howard Zinn’s Daughter, Myla Kabat-Zinn
February 2016
Rethinking Presidents’ Day | Black History Origins and Figures
 March 2016
The FBI’s War on the Civil Rights Movement | Book Winners
 March 2016
Textbook Fail: The social forces that starved the Irish | Popular Lessons
 March 2016
New Lessons to Bring People’s History and Current Events to the Classroom
2015 December 2015
Your Support is Needed to Bring People’s History to the Classroom
December 2015
“My compass in a sea of textbooks”
December 2015
More teachers than ever teach people’s history
November 2015
One week left! Your chance to win a class set of books
December 2015
Climate Justice: In Paris and In Our Classrooms
 December 2015
Let’s transform the teaching of history
 December 2015
Teaching people’s history and you
 September 2015
Pope Francis: System Change, Not Climate Change
October 2015
Time to Abolish Columbus Day
 November 2015
Good News from the Zinn Education Project
 November 2015
Your chance to win a class set of books!
July 2015
The Confederacy: Fact and Fiction
August 2015
From the Bomb to the Vote: Anniversaries of Hiroshima and the Voting Rights Act
August 2015
People’s History Tool Kit—Resources for Teaching Outside the Textbook
September 2015
Constitution Day: Students deserve a critical and honest exploration
May 2015
Rethinking Cinco de Mayo | Mother’s Day for Peace
May 2015
Stealing Home: New Lessons on Race and Displacement | Memorial Day Origins and Meaning
 June 2015
Spring 2015 Update
 June 2015
50,000 Teachers Strong and Counting
March 2015
New Lessons on the Environment | Selma | Women’s History Month
March 2015
Irish American History Not Taught in Schools | People’s History Artists | Women in Labor History
March 2015
Lying About the California Missions and the Indians
 April 2015
Camouflaging the Vietnam War | Classroom Lessons for Earth Day | New from Rethinking Schools
January 2015
Ten Things You Should Know About Selma Before You See the Film
January 2015
‘A Revolution of Values’ by Martin Luther King Jr.
January 2015
Five Years Later: Honoring Howard Zinn’s Legacy of Teaching and Activism
February 2015
Missing from President’s Day: The People They Enslaved | Black History Resources | Thank You Donors | Conferences
 2014 December 2014
10,000 More Teachers in One Year
December 2014
Keep ‘Koch’ Out of Our Schools
 December 2014
Your Support is Needed to Bring People’s History to the Classroom
 December 2014
44,500 Teachers and Growing — Support Teaching Outside the Textbook
December 2014
Reach Thousands More Teachers and Students in 2015
September 2014
People’s History Tool Kit—Resources for Teaching Outside the Textbook
September 2014
“This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed” | Banned Books Week | Celebrate People’s History
October 2014
Abolish Columbus Day
November 2014
Koch Brothers in the Classroom | See You at NCSS | This Changes Everything | Ferguson
June 2014
Zinn Papers Dedication, NCSS, New Resources, and More!
July 2014
Rethinking the 4th of July
August 2014
‘Is This America?’: Sharecroppers Challenge U.S. Apartheid, LBJ, and the Nation
 August 2014
‘To live in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory’; Celebrating Howard Zinn’s Birthday
May 2014
Japanese Internment, Brown v. Board of Education, and Featured Resources
May 2014
Burning Tulsa: The Legacy of Black Dispossession
 June 2014
Textbooks Miss the Forgotten Fight Against Fascism
 June 2014
How Not to Teach About the Iraq War
April 2014
A People’s History of Muslims in the United States
 April 2014
An Earth Day Message: Take Heart from the Abolition Movement
May 2014
Resources for Teaching About May Day
 May 2014
Rethinking Cinco de Mayo
January 2014
‘Keep Fighting the Good Fight’
January 2014
‘The exhilaration of standing with other people’—Remembering Howard Zinn
February 2014
Missing from Presidents’ Day: The People They Enslaved
March 2014
‘Power In Our Hands’ and Labor Resources – Zinn Education Project News
2013 December 2013
Howard Zinn: “I wanted to change the world.”
December 2013
In Honor Family That Makes History
October 2013
‘The Threat of a Good Example’: The Invasion of Grenada
November 2013
Defending Howard Zinn | See You in St. Louis | Howard Zinn, Presente
December 2013
A ‘People’s History’ of 2013
December 2013
A Letter from Howard Zinn’s Daughter
September 2013
People’s History Tool Kit — Resources for Teaching Outside the Textbook
September 2013
It’s Constitution Day: Time to Teach History or Obedience?
September 2013
Banned Books Week: People’s History Under Attack
October 2013
Challenging Censorship, Amplifying Voices: Green Feather Movement, Columbus, and Conferences
July 2013
Rethinking the Fourth of July
July 2013
Indiana’s Anti-Zinn Witch Hunt
August 2013
Tribute to Howard Zinn, Our Favorite Teacher
August 2013
Claiming and Teaching the 1963 March on Washington
April 2013
New, Improved, and Enhanced Zinn Education Project — Plus Much More!
April 2013
An Earth Day Message: Take Heart from the Abolition Movement
May 2013
Burned Out of Homes and History — Tulsa Race Riot Anniversary
June 2013
Camouflaging the Vietnam War: How Textbooks Continue to Keep the Pentagon Papers a Secret
January 2013
Honor Howard Zinn’s Life by Teaching People’s History
January 2013
The Poison We Never Talk About in School
February 2013
Reflections on Black History Month, At the Oscars, and Fellow Workers by Howard Zinn
March 2013
Ten Years After: How Not to Teach About the Iraq War
2012 December 2012
Your Support is Needed to Bring People’s History to the Classroom
December 2012
Rethinkin’ Lincoln on the 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation
December 2012
10,000 More Teachers in 2012—You Can Help Reach Thousands More in 2013
December 2012
26,000 Teachers Growing — Support Teaching Outside the Textbook
September 2012
It’s Constitution Day! Time to Teach Obedience or History?
October 2012
It’s Columbus Day — Time to Break the Silence
October 2012
See You at the Seattle NCSS
November 2012
Stealing and Selling Nature: Why We Need to Reclaim “the Commons” in the Curriculum
June 2012
Who Stole Helen Keller?
July 2012
Rethinking the 4th of July
July 2012
Fists of Freedom: An Olympic Story Not Taught in Schools
August 2012
Howard Zinn at 90, Lessons from the People’s Historian, Find Us at NCSS, More Conferences, New Books
January/February 2012
Honoring Howard Zinn’s Legacy
April 2012
Earth Day Column on Huffington Post
April 2012
Mexican American Studies, New Resources, Upcoming Conferences, Storycorps, and More
May 2012
Untold Story for Classrooms about WWII Internment
2011 December 2011
Highlights of the Zinn Room Dedication
December 2011
Smashing Success at NCSS
May 2011
Inspiring Bill Moyers Interview of Howard Zinn
September 2011
Zinn Room Dedication Invite
September 2011
Upcoming conferences
October 2011
Letter from Myla Kabat-Zinn
January 2011
Honoring Howard Zinn’s Life and Legacy
February/March 2011
Women’s History, Wisconsin, and Vietnam
April 2011
Solidarity! Resources at the Zinn Education Project
August 2011
Ten New Teaching Activities and Upcoming Events Not to Be Missed!
2010 March 2010
Free Sets of People’s History of the United States for 20 Teachers
July 2010
Teaching Outside the Textbook in the News, The People Speak Live! at NCORE, Yes! Magazine, A People’s Celebration of Howard Zinn in Boston
October 2010
Classroom Lessons on Whistleblowing, Ellsberg, Vietnam, and the Pentagon Papers
December 2010
Teaching Outside the Textbook in 2010
January 2010
Submit Questions for “Ask Howard”
February 2010
We Salute Howard Zinn, The People’s Historian, 1922-2010
2009 February 2009
Howard Zinn at NCSS and D.C., Survey Response, New Website Coming
June 2009
ZEP 2.0 in Process, Zinn on Democracy Now!, Free Event in D.C.
December 2009
ZEP 2.0 in Beta, The People Speak Broadcasting on TV, Ask Howard Hour, New from Rethinking Schools
December 2009
ZEP 2.0 in Beta, Ask Howard Hour, Become a Fan on Facebook, New from Rethinking Schools, New from Teaching for Change

 

Selected Workshops and Presentations

March 30, 2017: Standing with Standing Rock: A Role Play on the Dakota Access Pipeline. Facilitated by Faye Colon and Andy Paparella, middle school teachers, and Deborah Menkart, Teaching for Change executive director. Read more.

March 4, 2017: A People’s Curriculum for the Earth Workshop. Facilitated by Bill Bigelow and Tim Swinhart in Portland, Oregon.

April 9, 2016: A People’s Curriculum for the Earth Workshop. Facilitated by Bill Bigelow in Washington, D.C.

March 19, 2016:  NYCORE. “The Abolitionists: Exploring the Movement that Ended Slavery” facilitated by Adam Sanchez and “Sharecroppers Challenge U.S. Apartheid” facilitated by Deborah Menkart.

March 5, 2016: A People’s Curriculum for the Earth Workshop. Facilitated by Bill Bigelow in San Francisco.

December, 2014: This Change Everything Writing Retreat. Convened 20 teachers for the Zinn Education Project/This Changes Everything writing retreat weekend near Portland, Oregon, led by Rethinking Schools editors Linda Christensen and Bill Bigelow. Read more.

Apr. 28, 2014: Howard Zinn Paper Dedication at NYU. Workshop by Deborah Menkart, Julian Hipkins III, Katy Swalwell, and moderated by Carl Mirra. Opening comments by Alice Walker. Read more.

Nov. 18, 2012. NCSS. “Rethinking the Line Between Us: Teaching the War with Mexico Workshop” by Bill Bigelow.

Nov. 16, 2012. NCSS. Film Screening and Award Presentation with Sean Arce.

June 1, 2012. NCORE.  A joint Democracy Now! and Zinn Education Project workshop called “Teaching a People’s History, Teaching Democracy Now!: Role Play on the Climate Crisis and Online Resources for Critical Media Literacy.”  Read description.

April 21, 2012. Oregon NAME. Workshop by Bill Bigelow.

August 4-7, 2011. Transforming Education & Our World: 8th Annual Alternative Education Resource Organization (AERO) Conference in Portland, Oregon. The conference included three workshops on people’s history topics: Teaching diverse Middle School students empowering ways to explore racism in history (Moé Yonamine); Indigenous Peoples Confront the Climate Crisis (Tim Swinehart); and Rethinking the Line Between Us (Bill Bigelow)

June 4, 2010. National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education. People Speak Performance with Voices of a People’s History.

May 15, 2010. A People’s Celebration of Howard Zinn. Speech by Lauren Cooper about the Zinn Education Project.

April 23-24, 2010, Urban Sites Conference, Portland, Oregon. The People Speak: Illuminating Primary Source Documents to Promote Literacy and Activism – and – Rethinking the Line Between Us: Bringing History to Life in the Classroom.

March 20, 2010. NYCORE Conference, New York. Bringing People’s History to Life in the Classroom: In Honor of Howard Zinn (1922-2010) with Voices of a People’s History.

March 13, 2010. Literacy for Social Justice Teacher Research Group. St. Louis, MO. Teaching People’s History with You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train film viewing and discussion.

Selected List of Displays at Conferences and Other Public Events

2016

National Council for the Social Studies Conference (Washington, D.C.)

2015

National Council for the Social Studies Conference (New Orleans, LA)

Lessons of Vietnam: The Power of Protest (Washington, D.C.)

2014

Teachers for Social Justice – Bay Area (San Francisco, CA)

Northwest Teachers for Social Justice (Portland, OR)

National Association for Multicultural Education (Tucson, AZ)

National Council for the Social Studies Conference (Boston, MA)

2013

KIDD Literacy Conference (La Cruces, NM)
New York Collective of Radical Educators (New York, NY)
Free Minds, Free People Conference (Chicago, IL)
National Council for the Social Studies Conference (St. Louis, MO)

2012

National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education (New York, NY)
National Council for the Social Studies (Seattle, WA)
New York Collective of Radical Educators (New York, NY)
Oregon NAME

2011

American Historical Association (Boston, MA)
Anti-racist/Anti-bias Teaching Conference (Milwaukee, WI)
ASCD (San Francisco, CA)
National Association for Multicultural Education (Chicago, IL)
Northwest Teachers for Social Justice (Seattle, WA)
Teachers for Social Justice (San Francisco, CA)

2010

American Education Research Association National Conference (Denver, CO)
Anti-racist/Anti-bias Teaching Conference (Milwaukee, WI)
Coalition for Community Schools National Conference (Philadelphia, PA)
Literacy for Social Justice Teacher Research Group Curriculum Fair (St. Louis, MO)
National Association for Multicultural Education (Las Vegas, NV)
National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education (National Harbor, MD)
National Council for the Social Studies (Denver, CO)
New York Collective of Radical Educators (New York, NY)
Oakland History Day Fair – Celebrating Everyday Heroes in History (Oakland, CA)
Organization of American Historians National Conference and Commemoration of Howard Zinn (Washington, DC)
Philadelphia Social Justice Curriculum Fair (Philadelphia, PA)
Ridenhour Award Ceremony (Washington, DC)
Teachers for Social Justice conferences in Chicago, IL; San Francisco, CA; and Portland, OR
Urban Sites Conference of the National Writing Project (Portland, OR)
US Social Forum National Conference (Detroit, MI)
Wisconsin Social Studies Conference (Madison, WI)
White Privilege Conference (La Crosse, WI)