We write to share selected resources for teaching peoples 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.

The new episodes include:
Free Books for Your Stories
Teaching About Climate Change
Thanks to a donation by the author, we will send you Paradise on Fire by Jewell Parker Rhodes in appreciation for your climate justice teaching story.
Teaching About Reconstruction
Thanks to a donation by the author, we will send you Sugar by Jewell Parker Rhodes in appreciation for your story about teaching about Reconstruction or introducing the Reconstruction report to your students.
Teaching About Voting Rights
We are offering Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones in appreciation for teaching stories on any of the three lessons in Who Gets to Vote? Teaching About the Struggle for Voting Rights in the United States. 
Teaching How the Word Is Passed
In appreciation for your teaching story about any of the lessons for Clint SmithHow the Word Is Passed, we will send you Eyewitness: A Living Documentary of the African American Contribution to American History, a compilation by William Katz or Faces and Masks by Eduardo Galeano.
Rethinking America’s Past
Free E-book for Teachers and Teacher Educators
Rethinking America’s Past: Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States in the Classroom and Beyond is the first work to use archival and classroom evidence to assess the impact that Zinn’s classic work has had on historical teaching and learning and on U.S. culture.

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. [Publishers description.]
Rethinking Schools
Have you read the latest issue yet?
The cover story of the winter issue of Rethinking Schools, by Rachel Cohen, focuses on how educators are fighting back against the absurd barriers that many states are erecting to racial justice teaching. The issue also includes a series of articles about role plays, including an article by the Zinn Education Project that offers cautions and guidance about using them in the classroom and another piece titled “Who Killed Reconstruction? A Trial Role Play,” by high school teacher Adam Sanchez about a lesson that helps students get beyond the question of “Was Reconstruction a success or failure?” There are also tributes to bell hooks and James Loewen. Subscribe today.
Online Classes with
People's Historians
Join us for one or all of the Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online classes in 2022 with people’s historians.
Teach Reconstruction Report
Have you checked out the first-ever report on teaching Reconstruction? Read the findings and recommendations — and your states assessment. How does it compare to your own experience? What could be done to improve the state standards? We'd love to hear your feedback.
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