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Nine yearbook photos, including Langston Hughes'.

Class Production

A collection of high school yearbooks from Cleveland captures the rise, fall, and uncertain future of the American middle class.
by Alex Houston via JSTOR Daily on May 15, 2023

The Girls High School Experiment

In 1830, Boston had just concluded a radical experiment — a high school for girls.
via Boston Archives And Records Management on January 17, 2018

It Happened Here: Remembering One of America’s First Modern School Shootings, 50 Years Later

A teacher tells the story of 1974’s Olean, New York High School murders.
by Sally Ventura via Literary Hub on June 23, 2025
A standardized test and a pencil, with answers bubbled in.

The Rotting of the College Board

Testing is necessary. The SAT’s creator is not.
by Naomi Schaefer Riley via Commentary on November 13, 2024
Carver Junior High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

How to Keep a School Open

Two Carvers and the fight for fair desegregation.
by Jeremy Lee Wolin via The Metropole on September 17, 2024
A senior quote from Bookter T. Washington High School 1921 yearbook.

The Myth of the Christian State

When religion became the veil for racial violence in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
by Ross D. Johnson via The Oklahoma Eagle on August 18, 2024
Chairs on top of tables in an empty classroom

Are A.P. Classes a Waste of Time?

Advanced Placement courses are no recipe for igniting the intellect beyond high school. They’re a recipe for extinguishing it.
by Aaron R. Hanlon via The New Republic on September 6, 2023
Google's word occurences tool shows the word "teenager" appear around 1940, with an exponential increase in occurences up through the 2000s.

Teenagers Didn't Always Exist

So where were those angsty kids?
by Chris Dalla Riva via Can't Get Much Higher on March 16, 2023
Four characters from "Dazed and Confused."

The “Dazed and Confused” Generation

People my age are described as baby boomers, but our experiences call for a different label altogether.
by Bruce Handy via The New Yorker on March 2, 2023
1961 pamphlet for Florida's "Americanism vs. Communism" course.

The Long History of Conservative Indoctrination in Florida Schools

The top educational priorities in the Sunshine State were apparently reading, writing, and anti-communism.
by Tera W. Hunter via The Nation on February 27, 2023
AP African American Studies Founding Group at Howard University, in Washington

Open Letter In Defense of AP African American Studies

University faculty nationwide rebuke Ron DeSantis's recent decision to ban the course from Florida schools.
via Medium on January 31, 2023
A man in front of a "Banned Books" sign.

Nothing New Under the Sun

APAAS, Florida, and history.
by Matthew Teutsch via Medium on January 20, 2023
Black and white photos of (from left to right) Langston Hughes, Thurgood Marshall, and Toni Morrison

African-American History Finally Gets Its Own AP Class

'Nothing is more dramatic than having the College Board launch an AP course in a field,' says Henry Louis Gates Jr., who helped develop the curriculum.
by Olivia B. Waxman via TIME on August 22, 2022
Demonstrators holding signs during a student walkout over coronavirus pandemic safety measures at Chicago Public Schools.
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Students Are Protesting Covid Policies — And the Adults Who Won’t Listen to Them

For a century, student activists have demanded a say in their schools.
by Jack Hodgson via Made By History on January 18, 2022
Postcard of Wilshire Boulevard

Radical Movements in 1960s L.A.

A review of "Set The Night on Fire", an inspiring book that points to a new generation of activists who remain unbowed by conservative historiographies.
by Ryan Reft via The Metropole on January 11, 2021
Picture of an AP exam sign

The Strange World of AP U.S. History

Born out of the Cold War, the course has a great contradiction at its heart: why do we teach history?
by Lindsay Marshall via Contingent on October 20, 2020

What’s New About Free College?

The fight over free education is much older than you think.
by Jay Swanson via Current Affairs on July 8, 2020

When Schools Closed in 1916, Some Students Never Returned

Research into the long-term consequences of a polio outbreak found that older students are at highest risk for harm.
by Stephen Mihm via Bloomberg on June 26, 2020

Teaching History Is Hard

Bunk Executive Director Ed Ayers on the importance of teaching students to think for themselves.
by Ed Ayers via Medium on April 28, 2020

Whiteout

In favor of wrestling with the most difficult aspects of our history.
by Kevin Baker via Harper’s on November 1, 2019

The Big Data of Big Hair

We investigated a dataset of more than 30,000 high school yearbook photos from 1930–2013 to find out when big hair was at its height.
by Jan Diehm, Elle O'Brien via The Pudding on November 1, 2019

9/11 Is History Now. Here's How American Kids Are Learning About It in Class

"I get teary-eyed with my students."
by Olivia B. Waxman via TIME on September 10, 2019

Are You a Seg Academy Alum, Too? Let’s Talk.

Reflecting on the impact of an education in an institution deliberately set up to defy court-ordered desegregation.
by Ellen Ann Fentress via The Bitter Southerner on June 7, 2019

The Old Culture War Over Bible Reading in Public Schools is Starting Again

It was among the first social issues to split American Protestants into liberal and conservative camps.
by David Mislin via The Conversation on February 4, 2019
African American prison laborers.

A School District Wants to Relocate the Bodies of 95 Black Forced-Labor Prisoners

A school district owns the property where the bodies of 95 black convict-lease prisoners from Jim Crow era were buried.
by Meagan Flynn via Washington Post on October 25, 2018

Why Do People Sign Yearbooks?

Commemorative class books evolved from practical notebooks into collections of hair clippings, two-line rhymes, and summer wishes.
by Jennifer Billock via The Atlantic on June 3, 2018
Still of Molly Ringwald and Emilio Estevez from The Breakfast Club.

What About “The Breakfast Club”?

Revisiting the movies of my youth in the age of #MeToo.
by Molly Ringwald via The New Yorker on April 6, 2018

What the Guys Who Coined '420' Think About Their Place in Marijuana History

And how the term came to be code for pot-smoking in the first place.
by Olivia B. Waxman via TIME on April 19, 2017

The History of 420, in Three Acts

There are many theories about the origin of 420, but five guys named Waldo started it all.
by Steve Hager via Freedom Leaf Press on April 20, 2015
Illustration of characters from "The Great Gatsby."

How “The Great Gatsby” Took Over High School

The classroom staple turns a hundred.
by Alexander Manshel via The New Yorker on April 29, 2025
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