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How Academic Historians can be Useful to K-12 Teachers

NCHE

provides connection and coherence through the careful effort of trained human curators, making more than ten thousand articles from five hundred publications easily searchable and interconnected. Teachers can share any entry, or collection of entries, from Bunk with students, who can also explore the evolving archives for themselves.

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Teach Truth Day of Action 2024

Zinn Education Project

You can plan a virtual event or gathering at a historic site, bookstore, famers’ market, or other public location. Select a site in your town or city that symbolizes or reflects history that teachers would be required to lie about or omit if these bills become law, which is already the case in some states. Walking tours.

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Teach Truth Day of Action 2025

Zinn Education Project

Find an event near you and show up Go to a historic site and take a photo with a Teach Truth sign that you make or download. Host an information table at a public site (such as a library, bookstore, or farmers market) or organize a gathering at a historic site. All you need to do is select a site and register.

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People’s History Teaching Stories

Zinn Education Project

To activate their interest, I spent the first class period showing the Freedom Archives’ COINTELPRO 101 documentary. It is a powerful lesson that gets to the humanity of the enslaved and helps students really engage with the subject. I ask the students to think small about big wars and the human costs on both sides of the conflict.

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