We write to share selected resources for teaching people’s history
and book offers in appreciation for your teaching stories.
Seizing Freedom Podcast
Our team is listening to season two of the Seizing Freedom podcast. Host Kidada E. Williams (our May presenter for the series with people's historians) brings history to life for students with dramatic readings by professional actors of documents by and about African Americans from the archives. As with season one, those are interspersed with interviews with noted scholars and her own commentary.
Thanks to a donation by the author, we will send youSugar by Jewell Parker Rhodes in appreciation for your story about teaching about Reconstruction or introducing the Reconstruction reportto your students.
In appreciation for your teaching story about any of the lessons for Clint Smith’s How the Word Is Passed, we will send youEyewitness: A Living Documentary of the African American Contribution to American History, a compilation by William Katz or Faces and Masks by Eduardo Galeano.
This evidence refutes the right wing-attacks, showing that rather than indoctrinating students, Zinn’s book has been used by teachers to have students rethink conventional versions of U.S. history. [Publisher’s description.]