textbooks

The struggles of a century ago show that historians need to keep explaining their work and role to the public.

The “historian general” of the United Daughters of the Confederacy began the battle over the depiction of the South in history textbooks that continues today.

Conservative curricula are being pushed into tax-funded history classrooms.

What should children learn in school? It's a question that's stirred debate for decades, and in 1974 it led to violent protests in West Virginia.

We're talking about the Battle of Little Bighorn all wrong.

A new book traces how the writing of American history, from Reconstruction on, has falsified and illuminated our racial past.

Some essential lessons from an earlier culture war.

How an old textbook lodged itself in the heart of New Orleans’ self-mythology.

A century ago, pundits, special interests, and politicians weighed in on what should and shouldn't be taught in history and social studies courses.

In both versions of this question, the assumption is that there’s a pure history out there somewhere, perhaps with answers in the appendix.

In 1974, the culture wars came to Kanawha County, West Virginia, inciting protests over school curriculum.

Laws against teaching critical race theory might backfire on Republicans.

How 20th-century curriculum controversies foreshadowed this summer’s wave of legislation.

To our surprise, most received a well-rounded education on the history of Black people in America. Just kidding.

Jonathan W. Wilson offers a constructively critical review of Wilfred McClay's American history textbook "Land of Hope."

Natural language processing reveals huge differences in how Texas history textbooks treat men, women, and people of color.

This 1952 textbook serves as an example of the "patriotic history" that Donald Trump grew up with and calls for today.

State leaders went to great lengths to instill their gauzy version of the Lost Cause in young minds.

Any true reckoning with racism must include our schools.

What the capitalization of "Black" will mean for students and their teachers.