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Donate to Bring People’s History to More Classrooms
Donate to Bring People’s History to More Classrooms
Your support is needed to help more students learn people’s history. Most of the Zinn Education Project’s funding comes from individuals like you. Read what teachers are saying and make your tax-deductible donation today by credit card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, PayPal, ACH, or DAFPay. Become a monthly donor. Sustain the teaching of people’s history for the long haul. If you prefer to pay by check, make payable to the Zinn Education Project and mail to: Zinn Education Project c/o Teaching for Change PO Box 73038 Washington, D.C. 20056 To support the Zinn Education Project, the publisher is offering a hardback copy of Stitching Freedom by Gary Tyler with Ellen Bravo for every donor of $200 or more. Note in the donor comment field if you would like a copy.
This Day in People’s History
This Day in People’s History
Welcome to the This Day in People's History (#tdih) series. Search people’s history events by date, theme, state, or keyword.
Teach the Black Freedom Struggle Online Classes
Teach the Black Freedom Struggle Online Classes
Teaching for Black Lives Study Groups
Teaching for Black Lives Study Groups
Teach Truth
Teach Truth
Teach Truth
Young people face immense challenges — racism, war, gun violence, climate crisis, voter suppression, and more. However, across the country, legislatures,
A New Chapter for Teach Truth Actions
A New Chapter for Teach Truth Actions
After five years of coordinating national Teach Truth Days of Action, the Zinn Education Project is helping usher the movement into a new phase — deepening its reach by embedding the fight for honest education in year-round social justice organizing rather than leading a single day of action ourselves, and bringing the demand for the #FreedomtoLearn to the growing number of coalition-led protests. We are also focusing on the American Revolution 250 in 2026.
Teach Truth Campaign: At Every Rally
Teach Truth Campaign: At Every Rally
While education is central to the fascist agenda, it is not getting adequate attention from progressive forces. You can help shine a light on education by joining the campaign to Teach Truth.
Teaching Truth About the American Revolution - Share Your Story
Teaching Truth About the American Revolution - Share Your Story
In appreciation for teaching stories about the lessons on the American Revolution, we offer The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and The Unmaking of U.S. History by Ned Blackhawk or We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance by Kellie Carter Jackson.
Our Lessons
The Real Irish American Story Not Taught in Schools - Zinn Education Project
The Real Irish American Story Not Taught in Schools - Zinn Education Project
By Bill Bigelow “Wear green on St. Patrick’s Day or get pinched.” That pretty much sums up the Irish-American “curriculum” that I learned when I was in school. Yes, I recall a nod to the so-called Potato Famine, but it was mentioned only in passing. Sadly, today’s high school textbooks continue to largely ignore the famine, despite the fact that it was responsible for unimaginable suffering and the deaths of more than a million Irish peasants, and that it triggered the greatest wave of Irish immigration in U.S. history. Nor do textbooks make any attempt to help students link famines past and present.
Teaching the American Revolution
Teaching the American Revolution
Resources for teaching a people's history of the American Revolution.
New Lessons
New Lessons
New lessons for teaching people's history.
Popular Lessons
Popular Lessons
People's History
Teaching Resources on Palestine/Israel
Teaching Resources on Palestine/Israel
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.
People’s History of Florida
People’s History of Florida
Teach Climate Justice
Teach Climate Justice
Teach Climate Justice
Teaching climate justice has never been more urgent. We offer free downloadable classroom lessons, book and film recommendations, workshops for educators, and a sample school board climate justice resolution.
Climate Crisis Timeline
Climate Crisis Timeline
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 and government projects that exploit and destroy the Earth in the name of maximum profit. It also emphasizes moments and movements of resistance and activism that inform climate justice work today.
Teach Reconstruction
Teach Reconstruction
Teach Reconstruction
Reconstruction, the era immediately following the Civil War and emancipation, is full of stories that help us see the possibility of a future defined by racial equity.
Teach Reconstruction Report
Teach Reconstruction Report
Teaching for Black Lives
They Canceled Her African American Literature Class — So She Organized Educators to Teach for Black Lives
They Canceled Her African American Literature Class — So She Organized Educators to Teach for Black Lives
When South Carolina educator Alana J. Ward learned her African American Literature course was being cut, she could have given up. Instead, she organized.
National Teaching for Black Lives Summer Study Group
National Teaching for Black Lives Summer Study Group
In the summer of 2026, the Zinn Education Project will host and facilitate a Teaching for Black Lives study group for educators across the United States.
ZEP Coordinating Organizations
Rethinking Schools
Rethinking Schools
Rethinking Schools is a nonprofit publisher and advocacy organization dedicated to sustaining and strengthening public education through social justice teaching and education activism.
Teaching for Change
Teaching for Change
Teaching for Change provides educators with tools to create schools where students learn to read, write, and change the world.
