history education

An argument for returning the recent past, and the history of modern conservatism, to classrooms.

The course was getting a first read after years of review. Then, the Texas Board of Education needed more time to assess it without “drama or controversy.”

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

Ron DeSantis wants to retrofit history to conform to conservative ideology.

The controversial historian drew criticism from both left and right. We need more like him today.

The way we learn about our collective past is under attack thanks to new leadership at the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA).

How the fight of one Black Texas family to make freedom real offers lessons for Texas lawmakers trying to erase history from the classroom.

Conservatives have long refused to accept that America’s past is complicated.

Conservatives want to make students patriotic. Instead, they exacerbate historical illiteracy.

The latest battlefield in the GOP’s “anti-woke” crusade.

Christopher Rufo's polemical attacks against Critical Race Theory are not a new phenomenon. Public schools have long been a battlefield for ideological warfare.

On the value of the discipline and its applications.

The intertwined history of education, history, and patriotism in the United States.

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

The legislature established a committee last year to “promote patriotic education.” Drafts of one of its pamphlets reveal an effort to sanitize history.

The attacks on CRT have terrified our educators. But the public school system has always made it hard to teach controversial subjects.

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.

The topic is emotional. That’s not a bad thing.

The 1619 Project and contested foundings.