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Teaching materials for the People's History.

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The Zinn Education Project is my compass in a sea of corporate textbooks, packaged common core curriculum and standardized testing. My entire curriculum is based on lessons that can be found on the Zinn Education Project.

High School Social Studies Teacher, Portland, Ore.

Your support is needed to help more students learn people's history. 100% of Zinn Education Project funding comes from individuals like you. Donate today.

By Ursula Wolfe-Rocca

From voter ID laws to voter-roll purges, gerrymandering to poll closures to the deadly in-person voting conditions during a pandemic, the right to vote is under attack and the stakes are high. It is critical that students learn about the fight for voting rights, past and present.

Nov. 30, 1924: Shirley Chisholm Born...

Teaching About the Violence in Palestine and Israel...

I can UNDERSTAND pessimism, but I don't BELIEVE in it. It's not simply a matter of faith, but of historical EVIDENCE. Not overwhelming evidence, just enough to give HOPE, because for hope we don't need certainty, only POSSIBILITY.

-Howard Zinn

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Zinn Education Project: Teaching People's History

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The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the teaching of people's history in middle and high school classrooms across the country. Based on the lens of history highlighted in Howard Zinn's best-selling book A People's History of the United States, the website offers free, downloadable lessons and articles organized by theme, time period, and reading level.

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Lessons and Fun Assessments

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We're committed to providing educators accessible, high-quality teaching tools. That's why all our lessons and assessments are free. Please consider donating to SHEG to support our creation of new materials. All gifts are made through Stanford University and are tax-deductible.

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Discover 29,472,622 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States

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The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America's libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.

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Primary Source Documents

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Request military records and learn about other services for yourself or a family member.

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The National Geographic Society. Resources & Lessons

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Act before December 31! All donations to the National Geographic Society will be matched dollar for dollar through the end of the year. Make your tax-deductible gift today and make TWICE the impact for Explorers working to preserve threatened species around the world.

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Education Resources | National Geographic Society

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Inspire learners to explore National Geographic through interactive lesson plans, maps, storytelling and a wide variety of resources to illuminate their world.

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Primary Documents and Resources for the National Museum of American History.

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Welcome to American History

The museum's world class collections help tell the complex history of our nation. We are located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

Open today 10:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Plan Your Visit

Entertainment has the power to captivate, inspire and transform us. It brings us together. We share it when we spontaneously recite lines from a favorite movie, dance to the same groove or recreate a national sports moment on a neighborhood street. It can also spur critical conversations, expose divides, and foster important historical change.

Objects from the Collections

As the nation's history museum, we empower people to create a just and compassionate future by exploring, preserving, and sharing the complexity of our past.

Featured Events

Dive Into Exhibitions

Entertainment has the power to captivate, inspire and transform us.

This bilingual exhibition showcases the work of seven Latina journalists on Spanish-language television.

Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the federal legislation that unintentionally helped bring equality to sports, this 30-foot display case illuminates three athletes' stories.

Women in Entertainment History

Donate Today and Make History

Help us to preserve, protect, and display America's historic treasures.

Donate Today

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The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History preserves our nation's collections and tells a full and complex history of the United States.

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Lessons Shared by Teachers. Lots of Primary Sour on the
TAH.org website.

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TeachingAmericanHistory.org is the leading online resource for teachers of American history, government, and civics. TAH.org provides online and in-person opportunities to earn graduate degrees in American History and Government; partners with schools across the country to bring its unique, Socratic model of primary documents study to teachers where they work; and has a vast array of documents and programs available at TAH.org.

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Investigative Videos

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FRONTLINE has served as American public television's flagship public affairs series since 1983.

Described by The Atlantic as "the best news program on television," the series has built a reputation for powerful investigative storytelling that tackles the tough, controversial and complex stories that shape our times. More than 180 FRONTLINE documentaries are streaming in full, for free, online.

FRONTLINE has won every major award in broadcast journalism: 82 Emmys; 34 duPont-Columbia University Awards; 20 Peabody Awards; 16 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards; eight Television Critics Awards; and eight Banff Television Awards.

When FRONTLINE was born, however, the prospects for television news documentaries looked grim. Pressure was on network news departments to become profitable, and the spirit of outspoken journalistic inquiry established by programs like Edward R. Murrow's See It Now and Harvest of Shame had given way to entertainment values and feature-filled magazine shows. It fell to public television to pick up the torch of public affairs and carry on this well-established broadcast news tradition.

Since its inception, FRONTLINE has never shied away from tough, controversial issues or complex stories. In an age of anchor celebrities and snappy sound bites, FRONTLINE remains committed to providing a primetime venue for engaging reports that fully explore and illuminate the critical issues of our times. In the 2010-2011 season, the series expanded to a year-round broadcast presence that now includes several magazine-format programs, which have enabled FRONTLINE to respond more quickly to breaking news stories.

To support the creation of these new segments and programs, FRONTLINE has deepened its existing partnerships with ProPublica, the Center for Investigative Reporting, and other respected news organizations. New partnerships with NPR, Planet Money, and other news outlets, meanwhile, are supporting FRONTLINE's efforts to cultivate a new, younger generation of producers and reporters.

The series has also dramatically expanded its multimedia footprint, bringing in digital reporters and producers and making a commitment to interactive projects like Concussion Watch, the Emmy-nominated Targeting the Electorate, and A Perfect Terrorist: David Coleman Headley's Web of Betrayal, which was named one of The Best American Infographics of 2013.

FRONTLINE gives its award-winning journalists and filmmakers the time needed to thoroughly research a story and the time on-air to tell the story in a compelling way - from Martin Smith's on-the-ground reporting on ISIS to Michael Kirk's investigation into the secret history of the NSA's domestic surveillance program; from Ofra Bikel's examination of America's racial divide over the O.J. Simpson verdict to Dan Edge's exploration of America's reliance on incarceration; from collaborative investigations like Rape in the Fields and Firestone and the Warlord to provocative journeys like Hedrick Smith's search for the answer to the question, Is Wal-Mart Good for America?

Credible, thoughtful reporting combined with powerful narrative, a good story well told: That is at the heart of FRONTLINE's commitment to its viewers.

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Full list of past and current PBS shows. Find show websites, online video, web extras, schedules and more for your favorite PBS shows.

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Complete with Ebooks and weekly lesson plans.

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We make students think.

We design our courses and lessons to ask intriguing, thought-provoking questions.

We meet national and state standards.

We operate independently.

We are not funded by special interest groups.

Our donors - many whom prefer to remain anonymous - do not have input into course content.

It's free.

We are a nonprofit funded by people and organizations that are passionate about education.

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Because students don't read like they used to, we make our reading concise to quickly illustrate key concepts.

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Seasoned Teacher who's looking to refresh a course you're already teaching, you can
supplement it with specific lessons and activities from our curriculum.

New Teacher and/or new to the subjects of economics, government, or American
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Curriculum Coordinator or Administrator who is making a push to use Open Educational Resources (OER),
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Great Primary Sources - especially post-Civil War

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twin peaks: the return (television program)

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the apparitionists: a tale of phantoms fraud photography and the man who captured lincoln’s ghost (book)

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the apparitionists: a tale of phantoms fraud photography and the man who captured lincoln\'s ghost (book)

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Teacher website - PD Course

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OER Project is a family of free, online social studies curricula. Aligned to state standards and easily adaptable.

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Lessons and primary resources

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The world’s largest library. View historic photos, maps, books and more. Contact experts for help with research. Plan a visit. Home of U.S. Copyright Office.

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Historical Thinking Matters | Stanford History Education Group

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Historical Thinking Matters was a collaboration between Sam Wineburg and the late Roy N. Rosenzweig, founder of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. With funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Stanford-GMU collaboration created a website that went beyond offering historical materials.

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Great Resources

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Some cool info-graphics! Atlas

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American Panorama is created by the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond. Robert K. Nelson and Edward L. Ayers serve as editors. Justin Madron manages the project's spatial data. Nathaniel Ayers leads the design work. Scott Nesbit served as associate editor until 2017.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the University of Richmond have generously provided funding for American Panorama. Stamen Design developed the software for this project.

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American Panorama is created by the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond. Robert K. Nelson and Edward L. Ayers serve as editors. Justin Madron manages the project's spatial data. Nathaniel Ayers leads the design work. Scott Nesbit served as associate editor until 2017. The Andrew W.

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Research Info on both sides of the argument.

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AllSides | Balanced news via media bias ratings for an unbiased news perspective

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See issues and political news with news bias revealed. Non-partisan, crowd-sourced technology shows all sides so you can decide.