For the 5th annual Teach Truth Day of Action, Seven Stories Press, Haymarket Books, and One Signal Publishers donated books on the theme of education censorship. These titles are offered in support of teachers who insist on their students’ right to study history and contemporary issues. The right seeks to indoctrinate students with a whitewashed narrative of history. Our goal is for young people to engage in intellectual inquiry, to pursue real questions about history, and to apply historical insights to contemporary issues.
Please share stories about the impact of anti-history education laws, executive orders, the chilling effect in your school or school district, and whether or how educators and communities are resisting this repression. This will help the wider public understand how education is being censored and how some school districts are responding by defending the freedom to learn.
The donated books are:
Voices of a People’s History of the United States edited by Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove
Voices of a People’s History of the United States in the 21st Century edited by Anthony Arnove and Haley Pessin
Abolition for the People: The Movement for a Future without Policing and Prisons edited by Colin Kaepernick
Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies edited by Colin Kaepernick, Robin D. G. Kelley, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Reconsidering Reparations: Why Climate Justice and Constructive Politics Are Needed in the Wake of Slavery and Colonialism by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
To request one of the books, provide a full paragraph response to the question on the form linked on the button below. Note, we can only ship to addresses in the United States.
As long as you meet the criteria and respond to the questions, you will receive one of the books. The Voices of A People’s History titles will be shipped by the publisher and the other titles will be sent from the Zinn Education Project office. Other than with the publisher, we do not share your contact information.
This offer will remain open until the limited quantity of books have been claimed. (Note, the original offer included Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future by Jason Stanley and Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education by Jesse Hagopian. However those copies have run out.)
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More Offers
People’s History Lessons All the lessons at the Zinn Education Project website are free for teachers.
Free books for your teaching story including Reconsidering Reparations: Why Climate Justice and Constructive Politics Are Needed in the Wake of Slavery and Colonialism, Will’s Race for Home, and more.
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, young readers edition The Zinn Education Project and Beacon Press will ship five copies of the book to teachers and teacher educators anywhere in the United States.
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