Books for Donors and Classrooms
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Bring People’s History

to More Classrooms

The Zinn Education Project (coordinated by Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change) supports and defends the right to teach truthfully.

In 2026, with your help, we can:

  • Recruit educators to our people’s history network, now 176,000 strong
  • Counter the America 250 propaganda with a campaign to teach truthfully about the American Revolution
  • Challenge anti-history education executive orders, laws, and book bans
  • Develop lessons and offer workshops on immigration, the climate emergency, McCarthyism, Reconstruction, Palestine, the Constitution, and more
  • Engage teachers and build community through online classes with people’s historians
  • Form and support more Teaching for Black Lives study groups
  • Promote teacher leadership through the Prentiss Charney Fellowship
  • Distribute free books to classrooms to teach outside the textbook

We rely on your donations so we can continue to offer all our lessons for free and defend teachers’ right to use them. Please donate today.

Stitching Freedom

Gift of Book for Donors

In Stitching Freedom: A True Story of Injustice, Defiance, and Hope in Angola Prison, Gary Tyler is “willing to tell the truth about what happened and why, to magnify defiance and hope.”  — Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow

To support the Zinn Education Project, the publisher is offering a hardback copy of Stitching Freedom by Gary Tyler with Ellen Bravo for donors of $200 or more. 

Add a note when you make a donation that you would like to receive a copy of this new book. 

 

Defying Censorship

Books for Classrooms

Map of Original Sins distribution

The publisher of Stitching Freedom also donated copies for teachers. 

In fact, thanks to donations by publishers, authors, and individuals, we distributed more than 2,700 free people’s history books to schools this year, including in states where authorities outlaw teaching history truthfully. One of those books, featured in the map above, was Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism by Eve L. Ewing.

With your support, we can directly challenge education censorship and book bans in 2026. 

People’s History Events

Add these events, hosted by the Zinn Education Project and our colleagues, to your 2026 calendar. Online unless noted otherwise.

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2026 Black Lives Matter at School Curriculum Fair, January 24. Workshops include: “Archives in Class: Teaching with the Emergency Committee on the Transportation Crisis Records” and “Justice in Action: Equipping Students to Reimagine Democracy.”

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I’ll Make Me a World: The 100-Year Journey of Black History Month with Jarvis Givens, February 2. Drawing on archival research, personal stories involving family and students, and especially the wisdom of Black educators, Givens recovers the legacy of Carter G. Woodson and many others who envisioned Black history as a liberatory force — knowledge that shapes who we are, how we resist, and what we dream.

The annual Native Knowledge 360° Teach-In, hosted by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in collaboration with Teaching for Change on March 14, is an online opportunity for educators to access classroom resources from NMAI’s Native Knowledge 360° education portal, the Zinn Education Project, and more.

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Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea with Marcus Rediker, May 4. Rediker will talk about how many enslaved people fled successfully from the horrors of bondage in the antebellum South not by land but by sea.

National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE): The Zinn Education Project will participate in the 2026 NCTE convention in Philadelphia (Nov. 19–22). Proposal applications are due on Jan. 27. Let us know if you plan to attend.  

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