Books Economics History 
Zinn Education Project
MARCH 7, 2025
Here is why: In Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future , Jason Stanley exposes the ways authoritarian regimes manipulate historical narratives to maintain power. In fact, he references teachers using lessons from the Zinn Education Project as playing a key role in teaching peoples history, outside the textbook.
Sapiens
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
Archaeological evidence and Oral Histories show people in what is today Ghana lived sustainably for millennia—until European colonial powers and the widespread trade of enslaved people changed everything. While Logan’s work revealed the plants Banda residents ate, other research reconstructed the region’s broader environmental history.
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Moler's Musing
FEBRUARY 7, 2025
This got students thinking about the political, economic, and regional tensions that led to the war while allowing them to summarize key ideas concisely an essential skill as we transitioned into the concept of sectionalism. history for decades. How did economic and political differences lead to sectionalism?
Sapiens
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
The Roti Collective, a community-based research project, explores the layered histories that brought a flatbread from the Indian subcontinent around the world. In many cases, making roti wasnt a willful choice but an economic necessityor part of unpaid domestic laborwithin a highly gendered and classed society. where I teach.
A Principal's Reflections
SEPTEMBER 14, 2014
One just has to refer to the history books to see how this has played out across the world since the beginning of time. Where there still is forced change turmoil, economic instability, and mistrust run rampant. This is a great example of forced change. Forced change rarely works. Is this the environment we want for our kids?
Anthropology.net
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
From political power struggles to economic inequality and environmental exploitation, an evolutionary past rooted in dominance, survival, and competition still drives much of human behavior today. The drive to secure food and territory manifests in economic competition and resource hoarding.
A Principal's Reflections
FEBRUARY 12, 2012
History class, students learned about the rise of Jacksonian Democracy and had to determine if Jackson was a highly successful president or a corrupt leader. Students in Mr. Tusa’s history class investigated the history of Europe through painting (1500-1800). History teacher Ms. Image credit: [link] In Ms. Levy’s U.S.
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