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Announcing the 2024 Students of History Scholarship Winner

Students of History

We're excited to announce that Toyosi Dada, a graduating senior at Towson High School, has been awarded the 2024 Students of History Scholarship. This prestigious scholarship, which has been awarded each year since 2017, recognizes a college-bound senior who has excelled in history education.

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National Teach Truth Day of Action Press Call Highlights

Zinn Education Project

There were over 4,000 instances of book bans in the first half of this school year, according to PEN America’s April 2024 report, Banned in the USA: Narrating the Crisis. Eleven individuals are driving the overwhelming majority of book challenges according to a Washington Post analysis. They don’t just want to ban books.

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In Virginia, a battle over history standards ends in compromise

The Hechinger Report

“In Virginia, Youngkin can’t begin to do what Ron DeSantis can do in Florida on questions of ‘wokeness,’ because there is a Democratic Senate majority that is blocking much of Youngkin’s preferred agenda,” said Stephen Farnsworth, the director of the Center for Leadership and Media Studies at the University of Mary Washington.

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Support the Right to Teach Truthfully

Zinn Education Project

In 2025, with your help , we can: Recruit thousands of teachers to our peoples history network , now 170,000 strong Organize actions and media to challenge anti-history education laws and book bans Develop more lessons and offer workshops on immigration, environmental racism, McCarthyism, Reconstruction, voting rights, Palestine , and more Engage thousands (..)

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Teach Truth Day of Action 2024

Zinn Education Project

For the past three summers, teachers rallied across the country to speak out against anti-history education bills and to make public their pledge to teach the truth. Books by Black, Indigenous, authors of color, LGBTQ+, and Palestinian American writers are increasingly being banned.

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Teach Truth Day of Action 2025

Zinn Education Project

For the past three summers, teachers rallied across the country to speak out against anti-history education bills. The educator-led events received national media attention, providing a valuable counter narrative to the oversized coverage of the well-funded anti-CRT movement. Attend meetings, vote, run for office. Sign up today.

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Defying the Censorship: People’s History Taught in More Classrooms

Zinn Education Project

Tw, Kellie Carter Jackson, and more Hosted 75 new Teaching for Black Lives teacher study groups , bringing our total to more than 400 in 45 states Selected the second cohort of the peoples history teacher leadership fellowshipnamed for education activists C.

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