About the Zinn Education Project
The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the use of Howard Zinn’s best-selling book A People’s History of the United States and other materials for teaching a people’s history in middle and high school classrooms across the country. The website offers more than 100 free, downloadable lessons and articles organized by theme, time period, and reading level. The Zinn Education Project is coordinated by two non-profit organizations, Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change.Its goal is to introduce students to a more accurate, complex, and engaging understanding of United States history than is found in
traditional
textbooks and curricula. The empowering potential of studying U.S.
history is often lost in a textbook-driven trivial pursuit of names and
dates. Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States and Voices of a People’s History of the United States
emphasize the role of working people, women, people of color, and
organized social movements in shaping history. Students learn that
history is made not by a few heroic individuals, but instead by people’s
choices and actions, thereby also learning that their own choices and
actions matter.We believe that through taking a more engaging and more honest look at the past, we can help equip students with the analytical tools to make sense of — and improve — the world today. For a more complete description, read A People’s History, A People’s Pedagogy.
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