Find People's History in Austin, Texas, This Month

Zinn Education Project - Teaching People's History

See You at the National Council for the Social Studies Conference, Nov. 22-23!

The Zinn Education Project Heads to Austin, Texas

A number of the Zinn Education Project staff and volunteers will be at the annual NCSS conference in Austin, November 22-23, to lead workshops and talk with educators about plans for 2020, including these campaigns:

Teach Reconstruction with a focus on 150th anniversary of the 15th Amendment and voting rights today
Teach Climate Justice lessons, student actions, and school district resolutions

Scroll down to learn more about the people's history workshops and booth activities.

Not going to NCSS but curious? Follow us on Twitter @ZinnEdProject to keep up with conference news.

Workshops

In each of these workshops, participants will have the chance to experience a lesson they can use in their classroom.

The Birth of the Mexican Border

Friday, Nov. 22 - 2:05pm - 3:00pm

Facilitator: Bill Bigelow

After the U.S.-Mexico war, the United States took almost half of Mexico. Experience a classroom-tested mixer that explores the origins and effects of that war ---- and what it means for today.

( See lesson.)

Poetry of Defiance: How the Enslaved Resisted

Friday Nov. 22 - 3:10pm - 4:05pm

Facilitator: Adam Sanchez

Explore the myriad ways enslaved people resisted their enslavement in an activity designed to understand and celebrate enslaved people's resourceful and heroic defiance of the system of slavery. Roundtable format.

( See lesson.)

Who Freed the Slaves?

Saturday, Nov. 23 - 8:30am - 9:25am

Facilitator: Adam Sanchez

Meet the extraordinary, though not always well known, abolitionists who worked to end slavery, challenging the dangerous myth that Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves.

( See lesson.)

Deportations on Trial: Mexican Americans During the Great Depression

Saturday, Nov. 23 - 8:30am - 9:25am

Facilitator: Ursula Wolfe-Rocca

Who is to blame for the illegal, mass deportations of Mexican Americans and immigrants during the Great Depression? That is the question students confront in this trial role play.

( See lesson.)

Pipelines and People: Investigating the Dakota Access Pipeline

Saturday, Nov. 23 - 5:15pm - 6:10pm

Facilitator: Ursula Wolfe-Rocca

Explore the diverse perspectives of Indigenous People, the fossil fuel industry, organized labor, climate justice activists, and small farmers on the contentious Dakota Access Pipeline.

( See lesson .)

Purchase popular books from Rethinking Schools, including A People's Curriculum for the Earth, Teaching for Black Lives, and The New Teacher Book, at our booth.

Conference attendees will enjoy discounts on books and receive a complimentary issue of Rethinking Schools magazine when they purchase a subscription.

Ask Us About Our Book Giveaway

During the conference, we will give away over 100 copies of award-winning titles related to our Teach Reconstruction and Teach Climate Justice campaigns, including young readers editions of Never Caught by Erica Armstrong Dunbar and Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen.

Visit booth #333 in the exhibit hall to find out how you can take one home.

Thank you to Simon & Schuster , The New Press , HarperCollins Publishers , Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company , Penguin Random House , Milkweed Editions , Candlewick Press , Scholastic , and Little, Brown & Company for making this giveaway possible.

Not going to the conference? Online, we have book giveaways for our Reconstruction and Climate Justice campaigns, and for Lisa Delpit's new book, Teaching When the World Is on Fire. Share your story, include a photo, and we'll ship it to you, free!

Zinn Education Project T-Shirt

Show your support with a union-made Zinn Education Project t-shirt. The front features our name and logo. The back features a quote by Howard Zinn:

History should emphasize new possibilities by disclosing those hidden episodes of the past when people showed their ability to resist, to join together, and to occasionally win.

The Zinn Education Project lessons are made possible by support from individuals like you. Please donate today so that more teachers receive free lessons, books, and workshops to support social justice teaching in their classrooms. Donate now!

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