Zinn Education Project

Zinn Education Project

Introduces students to a more accurate, complex, and engaging understanding of U.S. history than is found in traditional textbooks and curricula. People’s history materials and pedagogy emphasize the role of working people, women, people of color, and organized social movements in shaping history. Students learn that history is made not by a few heroic individuals, but instead by people’s choices and actions, thereby also learning that their own choices and actions matter. Believes that by taking a more engaging and more honest look at the past, we can help equip students with the analytical tools to make sense of — and improve — the world today. Specific topics include the Black Freedom Struggle, Climate Justice, Reconstruction, the 15th Amendment and Solidarity with Indigenous People. Learn more.