[Reader-list] The Zinn Education Project: Free Resources on Teaching a People's History

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Excerpt from http://www.zinnedproject.org/about

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 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 emphasizes 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.

For more, visit: http://www.zinnedproject.org/about