From concerns about DHS and ICE escalations to anti-voter policies, there's a lot happening right now, so making our voices heard with our vote is crucial ❗️ Stay informed. Know your rights. Show up and vote 🗳️. Check out our guide on voting safely and free from fear 📲: https://bit.ly/4f0QrOC

#tdih 1944: Port Chicago Naval Magazine Disaster, California 320 men died (2/3 were African American). Protest of deadly conditions in munitions led to 50 African Americans being court-martialed for mutiny. Teach as part of WWII history unit. More ⬇️ 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/po...

Here are resources to teach truthfully about the many threats to voting rights, including misinformation, fear mongering, gerrymandering, voter ID laws, reduced polling stations, and more. (& our thanks to the poll workers for their dedication & integrity.) www.zinnedproject.org/news/teach-t...

CNN is NOT airing the Trump address live. They join ABC and NBC.

You had room, @politico.com, to add the words "Without providing evidence" to the beginning of this headline. Because that's what your story (which far fewer people will read) says. 1/2

On July 21, join @rethinkingschools.bsky.social for a panel conversation w/ Katy Swalwell, author of “Amazing Iowa Scientists” & HS educator Lizzie Zondo on researching local histories. Panel will focus on teaching local history through storytelling, research, & place-based learning. More info:

Happy birthday, Ida B. Wells! In celebration, try this mixer activity to help students uncover Wells’ radical legacy and resistance, then and now: Explore “The Heroes We Need Today: Teaching About the Radical Ida B. Wells”: 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/materials/th...

CHICAGO! Join Barbara Ransby and Anthony Arnove to celebrate the release of the expanded edition of Howard Zinn's SNCC: The New Abolitionists. W/ @jewishcurrents.bsky.social. Tue, August 11th at 6 PM CT Live from Haymarket House and streaming online. RSVP:

#tdih 1854: African American schoolteacher Elizabeth Jennings was thrown off a New York streetcar while on way to church. Next day a rally was held to support her. She took 3rd Ave Railway Company to court. Frederick Douglass publicized case. She won. 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/el...

#tdih 1964 WWII vet & SNCC voting rights activist Ozell Sutton was denied service at the Arkansas Capitol cafeteria. This violated federal law for businesses operating in conjunction with state entities & Civil Rights Act of 1964 (passed 2 weeks before). ⬇️🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/oz...

“As a poet myself, finding the Zinn Education Project’s ‘Poetry of Defiance’ lesson plan was a godsend. It was a perfect bookend to a very heavy unit, culminating our studies with the hope and power that comes with resistance.” —Nat Wyse, middle school social studies teacher, Amston, Connecticut 🧵

In this 250 minute from @hcrichardson.bsky.social & team, Connie Ryan, Executive Director of Interfaith Alliance of Iowa since 2002, tells how 12-year-old Susan Clark integrated an Iowa school in 1868, winning a desegregation case decades before Brown v. Board of Education. youtu.be/62Y0NJy9NP8?...

Tomorrow! July 15 @ 4pm, join ‘The Other 250: America from Below’ w/ @rebeccanagle.bsky.social, @jessehagopian.bsky.social, & others. The virtual roundtable will explore the contested terrain of the U.S. semiquincentennial & the counter-histories that confront the authoritarianism of the present.

The threats to democracy and the new voting barriers being devised are deeply intertwined. More from @motherjones.com journalist @ariberman.bsky.social: 🧵 www.npr.org/2026/07/08/n...

#tdih 1970 Young Lords occupied Lincoln Hospital’s major admin building in South Bronx in response to terrible conditions for African Americans & Latinos. K–12 curriculum should include long, ongoing struggle for access & equity in healthcare. Film & more ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/yo...

Can’t wait for this book. Zinn’s work was so influential on me as a young scholar

Educators need your support to turn classrooms and schools into sites of resistance, justice, joy, and liberation. Donate to keep people’s history lessons free and accessible for educators everywhere: zinnedproject.org/donate

Did ICE lie about the circumstances of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's death? The Mexican immigrant and father of three was fatally shot by agents during his morning drive to work.

#tdih 1863 New York City Draft Massacre (“Riots”) White rioters murdered hundreds of African Americans and burned an orphanage. One of countless massacres in U.S. history, driven by white supremacy. Read ⬇️ & find lesson for grades 7+. 🧵 #TeachOutsideTextbook www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/dr...

One-minute lesson narrated by @sifill.bsky.social on the significance of the 14th Amendment in the @250to250.bsky.social series by @hcrichardson.bsky.social Learn more by following The 14th Amendment Center @the14thcenter.bsky.social at Howard University Law School. youtu.be/l347V4pJF5E?...

Get ready to teach in new school year about organizing for voting rights with "Putting the MOVEMENT Back Into Civil Rights Teaching" from @teachingchange.bsky.social Lessons, essays, articles, primary docs, art, & poetry. Go beyond a "heroes and holidays" approach. www.civilrightsteaching.org/buy

This week marked the 158th anniversary of the ratification of the 14th Amendment—the constitutional cornerstone of citizenship, equality, due process, and multiracial democracy. @sifill.bsky.social reflects on why its promise is still worth fighting for 14thamendmentctr.org/news/a-messa...

#tdih 1917: Bisbee Deportation: illegal kidnapping & deportation of 1,000+ striking mine workers (IWW-led), their supporters, & citizen bystanders by 2,000 deputized vigilantes. Loaded on cattle cars. Sound familiar? More info & lessons (grades 7+) ⬇️ to teach labor & Mexican American history.

I'm really proud of this project and I was able to work with my friends Rachel and Tash on creating art that I think honors the men who were lynched. If anyone wants to exhibit our quilt, reach out to me.

#tdih 1964 @dcpublicschools.bsky.social assistant superintendent DCPS & WWII veteran, Lt. Col. Lemuel Penn, was shot & killed by KKK while driving home from reserve training at Fort Benning, Georgia. 💔 Father of three, his wife (49) died a year later, friends said of grief. #TeachTruth Read ⬇️ 🧵

With summer underway, we’re highlighting new people’s history books (incl. picture book recommendations from @teachingchange.bsky.social's Social Justice Books), two podcasts (First America with @rebeccanagle.bsky.social & @sceneonradio.bsky.social), & the Junior Resistance Ranger Challenge. See ⬇️

New one-minute learning, and of American History #250to250 by @hcrichardson.bsky.social team The Trail of Tears #WeAreAmerica250 #TrailofTears #AmericanGenocide #AndrewJackson #DoctrineOfDiscovery #NativeAmerican #SurvivingIsResistance youtu.be/a0UQRnJpwq8?...

#FridayReport: This week 103 teachers signed up at ZEP for people’s history lessons from Hawthorne, CA; Burbank, IL; Seymour, TN; Pecos, TX; & many more cities. #TeachTruth Some reasons why. ⬇️ Donate so we can reach more teachers with free people’s history lessons: www.zinnedproject.org/donate/

#tdih 1985, in a New Zealand harbor, Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior was bombed by French agents. Dutch photographer Fernando Pereira was killed. 💔 The ship’s crew was preparing for a protest voyage to a French nuclear test site in the South Pacific. ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ra...

#tdih 1868: 14th Amendment adopted 🧵 “Very soon after 14th Amendment became law, the Supreme Court began to demolish it as a protection for Black people, and to develop it as a protection for corporations.” — Howard Zinn @zinndigital.bsky.social #TeachReconstruction 📷: 1964, Portland NAACP

This summer, the America433+ coalition invites everyone to pledge to protect truth-telling at National Park Service sites. Become a Junior Resistance Ranger. Visit a NPS site (or other local public land), take the pledge, share a photo & receive a badge. ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/defend-...

“My grandparents were migrant farm workers born in Mexico in the Depression’s wake. ‘Deportations on Trial’ provides an excellent way for me to fill in the gaps between the [standards] and the actual history that students might never know.” — Pablo Giesberg Fierros, history teacher, Chicago 🧵

🚨 BREAKING: We challenged South Carolina's classroom censorship law, that restricted teaching about race and Black history in K–12 schools. Today, we won in the Fourth Circuit, and our case is moving forward. Our fight to ensure students are taught the truth isn't over yet! https://bit.ly/4wBZDP4

Are educators at your school or district looking for meaningful PD & a supportive learning community? Join us on August 11 for an info session to learn how to form a Teaching for Black Lives study group in your school, district, or statewide. More: www.teachingforblacklives.org/info-session/

Check out the summer issue of @rethinkingschools.bsky.social magazine! Includes resources for thinking critically about how to teach the American Revolution by uplifting Black, Indigenous, & working-class voices too often left out of the official story. More: rethinkingschools.org/issue/volume...

“There can be no denying the scope and the dangers of this assault on Black history. But one unintended consequence may be a strengthening of the grassroots, fugitive channels of education that made it possible to bring our history “indoors” in the first place.” @brianjoneseducator.bsky.social

#tdih 1876 Hamburg Massacre. In midst of heated South Carolina Reconstruction era local election, a Black militia engaged in military exercises was falsely accused of “blocking a road.” White supremacists led a massacre to suppress Black voters through violence. See ⬇️ & voting rights lesson. 🧵

A White House report alleges radical bias at the National Museum of American History. But the assembled evidence reveals a large and vibrant institution carrying out its mission. (@philipkennicott.bsky.social) Gift article: www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...

". . . These victims’ & witnesses’ subsequent refusal to endure violence silently constitutes an underappreciated form of resistance to white supremacy." -- @kidadaewilliams.com #tdih 1871, Elias Thomson of SC bravely testified about Klan violence for voting ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/te...

In 1952, 22-yr-old WAC Sarah Louise Keys Evans of NC bravely refused to give up her seat for a white man on bus from NJ to NC. She was arrested, filed suit (w/ lawyer Dovey J. Roundtree), & won. Now Army removed her story: www.motherjones.com/politics/202... www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/sa...

“My experience as an educator has shown me that students yearn for the unvarnished truth to better understand the unique times that they are being brought up in.” — William Hougan, high school social studies teacher, Los Angeles, California Donate to help #TeachTruth: zinnedproject.org/donate

#tdih 2016 Philando Castile was shot to death 💔 by a police officer in a suburb of Saint Paul, Minn., at a traffic stop. Castile was known as “Mr. Phil” to students at the elementary school where he was a nutrition supervisor. #BlackLivesMatter #TeachTruth www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ph...

"Employees shall have the right to self-organization . . . to engage in other concerted activities for . . . mutual aid and protection." -- NLRA signed into law #tdih 1935 However, as with Piedmont Strike ⬇️ in NC, police don't protect these workers' rights. www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/na...

People’s history stories from July 4th beyond 1776. July 4th anniversaries such as the Reconstruction era attack on a Black militia that led to the Hamburg Massacre (1876), Baltimore amusement park protest (1963), prison hunger strike (1976), and many more. ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/materials/pe...

#tdih 1919 Red Summer extended to Arizona in "Battle of Brewery Gulch" when white mobs & police repeatedly targeted African American WWI vets & servicemen. Including day before planned participation by Black 10th Cavalry Regiment in July 4 parade. ⬇️ 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/br...

What to do about the fossil-fueled excessive heat? (1) Corporate media is not headlining root cause, so we all need to NAME it. (2) Donate to climate justice groups & to ZEP so we can provide free lessons on the climate for K-12. www.zinnedproject.org/donate www.zinnedproject.org/news/fossil-...

-- "Isn’t it unfair to judge the American Revolution & the founders by today’s moral standards?" -- "Wasn't it necessary to compromise (as in 3/5ths) to unite the colonies & win independence from Britain?" #America250 #TeachTruth Answers you can use to these & more frequently asked questions. ⬇️

#tdih July 3, 1919: Battle of Brewery Gulch White law enforcement targeted Black soldiers (who fought back) in Bisbee, Arizona (a sundown town) during Red Summer and Independence Day preparations. #July4 #America250 Read more ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/br...

US history – not just nature – is at the heart of the visitor experience at most of the NPS 433 sites ‘"A sanitized view of America’: inside Trump’s campaign to erase US history from national parks." Stories & data visualization in @theguardian.com by @amyqin.bsky.social & Flávio Pessoa Read ⬇️

"Decolonizing 1776 requires more than rethinking the past; it requires reclaiming our capacity to imagine a different future." -- @jessehagopian.bsky.social in "Trump’s UFC Cage Fight Is an Apt Metaphor for a Nation Built on Colonial Violence" via @truthout.org Here: truthout.org/articles/tru...