We are delighted to share new resources for people's history educators, including the latest issue of Rethinking Schools, a podcast, and books.
Rethinking Schools Magazine
Do you subscribe yet to Rethinking Schools? (It is the source for dozens of lessons at the Zinn Education Project website.)
If not, start with the winter issue of Rethinking Schools, which features "Who's to Blame? A Coronavirus Tribunal," about a lesson by D.C. middle school teacher, Caneisha Mills.
You'll also find an article by high school science teacher Gretchen Kraig-Turner, who helps her students explore how DNA testing is used to free innocent people from prison, and an editorial from the Rethinking Schools editorial board about the hard work ahead for educators after the Trump years.
Teacher Unions and Social Justice: Organizing for the Schools and Communities Our Students Deserve
Edited by Michael Charney, Jesse Hagopian, and Bob Peterson
An anthology from Rethinking Schools with more than 60 articles, Teacher Unions and Social Justice: Organizing for the Schools and Communities Our Students Deserve documents the history and the how-tos of social justice unionism.
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks: Young Readers Edition
By Jeanne Theoharis and Brandy Colbert
In story after story, Jeanne Theoharis and Brandy Colbert breathe life into the rebellious Mrs. Rosa Parks, a fighter for justice who will intrigue and inspire young people.
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
By Clint Smith
An examination of how monuments and landmarks represent — and misrepresent — the central role of slavery in U.S. history and its legacy today.
Learn more and register for an online people's history class with the author.
The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed
By Robin Broad and John Cavanagh
The real-life story of ordinary people in El Salvador who rallied together with international allies to prevent a global mining corporation from poisoning the country's main water source.
Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction
By Kate Masur
Stories of how African American activists and their white allies, often facing mob violence, courageously built a movement to fight racist laws in the decades leading up to the Civil War.
