A National Teach-In, October 3, 2024, 5 pm EST

The teach-in will be broadcast at THIS LINK and archived for later viewing.

On October 3, Historians for Peace and Democracy (H-PAD) and co-sponsors will host an online national teach-in to educate the public, and students in particular, about the origins of the MAGA movement and the Project 2025 policy plan prepared by the Heritage Foundation for a second Trump administration.

Three prominent scholars of racial and political history will speak on the history of the radical right, and illustrate how the proposed policy architecture of Project 2025 advances the long-sought goals of that movement.

Carol Anderson is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of African American Studies at Emory University. She is the author of Eyes Off the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944-1955 (Myrna Bernath Book Award and Gustavus Myers Book Award); Bourgeois Radicals: The NAACP and the Struggle for Colonial Liberation, 1941-1960; White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (New York Times Bestseller and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award); One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying our Democracy, (Long-listed for the National Book Award in Non-Fiction and a finalist for the PEN/Galbraith Book Award in Non-Fiction); and The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America (New York Times Editor’s Pick).

Nancy MacLean is the William H. Chafe Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University and a past president of the Labor and Working Class History Association (LAWCHA). She is the author of several award-winning books, most recently, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America. Booklist called it “perhaps the best explanation to date of the roots of the political divide that threatens to irrevocably alter American government.” The Guardian said: “It’s the missing chapter: a key to understanding the politics of the past half century.” A New
York Times bestseller, it was a finalist for the National Book Award and
the winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award in Current Affairs and the
Lillian Smith Book Award for outstanding writing about the U.S. South. The Nation named it the “Most Valuable Book” of the year.

Paul Ortiz is Professor of Labor History at Cornel University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. A PEN Award-winning author, Paul’s book An African American and Latinx History of the United States was identified in 2020 by Bustle as one of “Ten Books About Race to Read Instead of Asking a Person of Color to Explain Things to You.” Fortune Magazine listed it as one of the “10 books on American history that actually reflect the United States.”

Bill Fletcher, Jr., is a longtime socialist, trade unionist, international solidarity activist and writer. You can follow Bill on Twitter/X @BillFletcherJr.

Professors are encouraged to assign “MAGA and Project 2025: Historical Perspectives and Present Dangers” for extra credit. HPAD and our co-sponsors will produce resources, including questions to prompt in-class discussion and voter registration information that can easily be shared. We encourage Professors to invite local panels of historians/experts–and elected officials in particular–to join these teach-ins to provide local context and commentary.

The teach-in will be broadcast at THIS LINK and archived for later viewing.

The teach-in is co-sponsored by a range of groups committed to honest history education, including Massachusetts Peace Action, the American Association of University Professors, the Coalition for Action in Higher Education, Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Education, the Zinn Education Project, The Labor and Working Class History Association, and Convergencemag.com.

We suggest using the following social media hashtags to promote the teach-in: #hpad; #historiansforpeace; #exposeproject2025; and #honesthistory