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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

We’d also have access to historical documents from the British Museum – such as notes from an English merchant in Syria in 1739 – and to the prisoner of war archives from the Red Cross. We’d examine historical images of Native American life from the Museum of Photographic Arts, other historical photos from the U.K.

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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. It could be identified by a historic marker, statue, archive, burial ground, or museum. For Facebook, check out this example from D.C.

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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.

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People’s History Teaching Stories

Zinn Education Project

The plan was to make it a museum that focuses on the history of Black Americans’ struggles both during and after enslavement. Bob Henson High School Social Studies Teacher, Villa Hills, Kentucky In my capacity as a secondary history educator, I strategically incorporated a Democracy Now!

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Can we teach our way out of political polarization?

The Hechinger Report

While education levels are not related to conservative beliefs about economic policy, they are related to conservative beliefs about the value of cultural diversity. Trump showed up for the opening day of the new civil rights museum; one supporter looks at a list of those who were lynched. But it is hardly an inoculation.

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