{"id":2113,"date":"2012-01-17T05:57:45","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T05:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/?p=2113"},"modified":"2014-07-17T20:03:58","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T20:03:58","slug":"zinn-education-project-now-featuring-the-insular-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/?p=2113","title":{"rendered":"Zinn Education Project: Now Featuring The Insular Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ZEPwebpage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2120\" title=\"ZEPwebpage\" src=\"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ZEPwebpage-1024x582.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ZEPwebpage-1024x582.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ZEPwebpage-525x298.jpg 525w, https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ZEPwebpage.jpg 1248w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a>The Insular Empire<\/em> recently received the huge honor of being included in the <a title=\"The Zinn Education Project\" href=\"http:\/\/zinnedproject.org\" target=\"_blank\">Zinn Education Project<\/a>&#8216;s list of Teaching Materials. The ZEP project promotes and supports the use of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zinnedproject.org\/wp\/about\/howard-zinn\/\">Howard Zinn\u2019s<\/a> best-selling book <em><a title=\"A People's History\" href=\"http:\/\/zinnedproject.org\/posts\/67\" target=\"_self\">A People\u2019s History of the United States<\/a><\/em> and other materials for teaching a people\u2019s history in middle and high school classrooms across the country. The website\u00a0offers more than 100 free, downloadable lessons and articles organized by <a title=\"theme\" href=\"http:\/\/zinnedproject.org\/teaching-materials\/explore-by-theme\">theme<\/a>, <a title=\"time period\" href=\"http:\/\/zinnedproject.org\/teaching-materials\/explore-by-time-period\">time period<\/a>, and reading level, and information about films &#8211; like mine &#8211; that address lesser-known chapters in American history.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who haven&#8217;t yet had the pleasure of reading the late Howard Zinn&#8217;s works, you are in for a treat. Whereas standard history books focus on the winners &#8211; the capitalists, the generals, the men, the Europeans &#8211; Zinn&#8217;s work focuses on everyone else. Women, slaves, laborers, Indians &#8211; and those struggling to make life better for all of us (40 hour work week, anyone?) are finally given their place in the academic sun. Plus Zinn was just a great writer &#8211; and a great speaker.<\/p>\n<p>The Zinn Education Project is coordinated by two non-profit organizations, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rethinkingschools.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rethinking Schools<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/teachingforchange.org\/\">Teaching for Change<\/a>. The people who are carrying on Zinn&#8217;s tradition with this new project are as committed, smart, and karmically positive as he was. I am truly honored to have my work included in their project. Be sure to <a title=\"The Zinn Education Project\" href=\"http:\/\/zinnedproject.org\" target=\"_blank\">check it out<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Insular Empire recently received the huge honor of being included in the Zinn Education Project&#8216;s list of Teaching Materials. The ZEP project promotes and supports the use of Howard Zinn\u2019s best-selling book A People\u2019s History of the United States and other materials for teaching a people\u2019s history in middle and high school classrooms across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,85],"tags":[119,115,139,89,142,167,118,141,138,140,143],"class_list":["post-2113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-vanessas-front-page-picks","tag-cnmi","tag-decolonization","tag-democracy-and-citizenship","tag-guam","tag-guam-buildup","tag-guam-military-buildup","tag-mariana-islands","tag-militarisation","tag-pacific-islander-videos","tag-us-history","tag-us-history-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2113"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2270,"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113\/revisions\/2270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theinsularempire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}