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.

Just like today, the mass kidnapping and deportation of Mexican Americans during the Great Depression had little to do with law, but is rather a program of “racial expulsion.” These lessons from history can help us today.

Thanks to generous donors, the Zinn Education Project gave 450 copies of Eve Ewing's Original Sins to educators around the country.

We engaged with educators from around the country at the National Education Association Conference on Racial and Social Justice in Portland, Oregon.

A story and corrido (ballad) about the 1930s deportation of Mexican Americans.

Scholar Joshua Clark Jackson will discuss his new book Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back. This session is part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.

Thank you to the staff of the Zinn Education Project for trusting and supporting educators and students, and for providing resources to teach truth.

With the airwaves full of inflammatory rhetoric about immigrants and I.C.E. raids in countless communities, we provide lessons, teaching guides, and other recommended resources for teaching honestly and critically about immigration.

Highlights from 2025 Teach Truth events around the United States.

Thanks to a generous donation from One Signal Publishers, 300 copies of Jason Stanley's Erasing History were donated to educators around the country in preparation for the 5th annual Teach Truth Day of Action.

The D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice hosted a Teach Truth day of action event at the Mall — marching (with a brass band) from the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) to the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI).

“Outside agitators” is a trope used throughout history in response to slave resistance, Reconstruction, the labor movement, the anti-apartheid movement, the Civil Rights Movement, and more to dismiss and repress the legitimate agency, intellect, and concerns of local people.

Teach Truth day of action briefing with representatives from the co-sponsors, partners, and event hosts.

Children’s future depends on what they learn today. That is why we need to defend the freedom to learn, more now than ever. Let students and teachers know we are by their side.

Historian Mia Bay discussed her book, Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance, which explores racial restrictions on transportation and resistance to the injustice. This class was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.

Educator Brian Jones will discuss his new book Black History Is for Everyone. This session is part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.

The Zinn Education Project team will be at the National Council for the Social Studies Conference in Washington, D.C. from December 5-7, 2025.

Fifth annual nationwide rallies and teach-ins, led by educators, students, and local communities aim to pushback unprecedented and increasing legislative efforts to censor history and restrict learning in K–12 classrooms.

Author and educator Clint Smith will discuss the new young readers edition of How the Word Is Passed: Remembering Slavery and How it Shaped America. This session is part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.

The Zinn Education Project, in conjunction with more than 80 prominent racial and social justice organizations, will hold a national briefing on June 3, to discuss the growing chorus of diverse voices speaking out against the state and federal attack on students’ freedom to learn and educators’ freedom to teach.

On this Memorial Day weekend, we feature two articles: one about the early origins of the holiday, led by African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina after the Civil War, and the second by Howard Zinn urging us to "destroy the weapons of death that . . . threaten our children and grandchildren."

Educators have a vital role to play in preserving the truth of what happened in 2020. Let’s help students understand both the power of protest — and the necessity of ongoing struggle — to build a more just future.

Scholar Jason Stanley, in conversation with Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian, discussed his book, Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future, which exposes the ways authoritarian regimes manipulate historical narratives to maintain power.