Preparing YOUNG AmericanS to
pursue their dreams and STRIVE
FOR NATIONAL RECONCILIATION

Own Your History® (OYH) creates inclusive fact-based U.S. History curricula, resources & workshops.  We prepare students and adults of all ages and backgrounds to become better-informed citizens for advancing our nation’s promise of achieving a more equitable, just, and democratic society. Americans have unfinished business.

Our divisions are grounded in American history and reflected in today’s conflicts.

OYH focuses on historical facts as a basis for better understanding our shared past. This creates opportunities to work together in building a better future.

OYH is an initiative of The Reconciliation Education Project, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.  

All OYH materials are freely available for non-commercial educational users under a Creative Commons license, here.

Learn more about OUR MISSION.

 
 
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School
Curriculum

The Own Your History® Leadership (OYHL) program is our school curriculum. It personally connects students to the United States history we all need to know and challenges them to become more aware citizens.

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Multimedia resources

OYH offers a series of multi-faceted resources suitable for all ages. Each arrays links for exploring the complexity & diversity of our history.

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After School Programs

OWN IT! is our after-school program. It is a grade 7-12 transformative enrichment program that nurtures academic skills, personal growth & awareness, and leadership. It uses history to connect students' past to their future.

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Community building

OYH programs & resources support differing groups in a community to come together, find shared ground & build bridges.

 

History is our path to A BETTER future

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"All of us benefit from inheritances we did not choose and cannot change. Growing up involves deciding which part of the inheritance you want to claim as your own, and how much you have to pay for the rest of it. This is as true for nations as it is for individuals."

— Susan Neiman

Left: 2017 Women's March, Washington, D.C.

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"A frank and honest effort in classrooms to face up to the darkest side of our past, to understand the ways in which social evils evolve, should in no way lead to cynicism and despair or to a repudiation of our heritage. The development of maturity means a capacity to deal with the truth."

— David Brion Davis

Right: Demonstrators against Muslim ban at Supreme Court, 2019