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Special Education: The 50-Year Fight for the Right to Learn

Today’s special education system was shaped five decades ago, when parents fought for disabled children’s right to learn.

by Karen M. Sughrue, Michael Kranz, Heru Muharrar via Retro Report on June 24, 2021

Woman with sign protesting textbooks

This Critical Race Theory Panic Is a Chip Off the Old Block

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

by Adam Laats, Gillian Frank via Slate on June 18, 2021

American Girl dolls

The Enduring Nostalgia of American Girl Dolls

The beloved line of fictional characters taught children about American history and encouraged them to realize their potential.

by Meilan Solly via Smithsonian on June 3, 2021

Charles Schulz sketching Peanuts comics

Charlie Brown Tried to Stay Out of Politics

Why did readers search for deeper meaning in the adventures of Snoopy and the gang?

by Scott Bradfield via The New Republic on June 2, 2021

Painting of children with sticks and hoops. By Ethel Spowers, 1936.

Kidding Around

Stories of American children at work and play.

Black children learning in a classroom

What’s Missing From the Discourse About Anti-Racist Teaching

Black educators have always known that their students are living in an anti-Black world and that their teaching must be set against the order of that world.

by Jarvis R. Givens via The Atlantic on May 21, 2021

A hand holding the hand of a baby doll.

The Strange Tradition of “Practice Babies” at 20th-Century Women’s Colleges

A photo archive shows college coeds vacuuming, preparing baby bottles, diapering babies, and generally practicing at motherhood.

by Megan Culhane Galbraith via Hyperallergic on May 2, 2021

Mary Todd Lincoln posing with two of her young children

Mary Lincoln Wasn’t ‘Crazy.’ She Was a Bereaved Mother, New Exhibit Says.

The Lincolns had four sons. Mary buried three of them. A new exhibit at President Lincoln's Cottage sheds light on bereaved parents, then and now.

by Gillian Brockell via Washington Post on May 1, 2021

Roadside memorial for Ma’Khia Bryant

Child Welfare Systems Have Long Harmed Black Children Like Ma’Khia Bryant

Instead of caring for Black children, child welfare systems subject them to abuse and harsh conditions.

by Crystal Webster via Made By History on April 30, 2021

Jefferson Wiggins.

History Forgot About These Black Soldiers of WWII. Now, a Group Is Remembering Their Work.

Mieke Kierkels and Chris Dickon have been collaborating on several projects to remember the sacrifices of African American soldiers during World War II.

by Denise M. Watson via The Virginian Pilot on April 29, 2021

Potato Head family

Toys Are Ditching Genders for the Same Reason They First Took Them On

Why the Potato Heads are the latest toys becoming more inclusive.

by Paul Ringel via Made By History on March 2, 2021

Helen Keller, circa 1954.

Did Helen Keller Really “Do All That”?

A troubling TikTok conspiracy theory questions whether Keller was “real.”

by Rebecca Onion via Slate on February 26, 2021

A picture of the Dudley Diggs House

At William & Mary, a School for Free and Enslaved Black Children is Rediscovered

Opened in 1760, the school may be the oldest still-standing building of its kind.

by Joe Heim via Washington Post on February 25, 2021

Collage of a photograph of a boy over a photo of Castro and his entourage.

My Brother’s Keeper

Early in the Cuban Revolution, my mother made a consequential decision.

by Ada Ferrer via The New Yorker on February 18, 2021

black and white photos of children

The Magazine That Helped 1920s Kids Navigate Racism

Mainstream culture denied Black children their humanity—so W. E. B. Du Bois created The Brownies’ Book to assert it.

by Anna E. Holmes via The Atlantic on February 12, 2021

Black and white photo of a girl sitting with a baby carriage and dollhouse

The US Government Can Provide Universal Childcare — It’s Done So in the Past

There’s no reason we can’t have universal childcare that’s wildly popular and provides high-quality care — in fact, during World War II, we did.

by Daphna Thier via Jacobin on December 27, 2020

Lithograph of William Costin.

The Mount Vernon Slave Who Made Good: The Mystery of William Costin

David O. Stewart discusses the relationship between William Costin and the Washington bloodline.

by David O. Stewart via Journal of the American Revolution on December 22, 2020

Ernest Thompson Seton posing with three citizens of the Blackfeet Nation, ca. 1917.

This Land Is Your Land

Native minstrelsy and the American summer camp movement.

by Asa Seresin via Cabinet on December 15, 2020

Engraving of a vaccinated child.

An Eradication: Empire, Enslaved Children, and the Whitewashing of Vaccine History

Enslaved children were used in medical trials for early smallpox vaccines. They have been forgotten.

by Farren E. Yaro via Age of Revolutions on December 7, 2020

A television news reporter in a segment from the 1990s on juvenile crime

Superpredator

The media myth that demonized a generation of Black youth.

by Carroll Bogert, Lynnell Hancock via The Marshall Project on November 20, 2020

A picture of a man and a graffiti wall

The Origins of an Early School-to-Deportation Pipeline

Appeals to childhood innocence helped enshrine undocumented kids’ access to education. But this has also inadvertently reinforced criminalization.

by Ivón Padilla-Rodríguez via NACLA on November 6, 2020

Freeville Republic

When Kids Ran the World: A Forgotten History of the Junior Republic Movement

When public opinion favored sheltering youth from adult society, the Freeville Republic immersed them in carefully designed models of that society instead.

by Jennifer S. Light via The MIT Press Reader on October 9, 2020

A graphic with web browsers open depicting lizard people, hooded satanists, Satan, Donald Trump, the jewish star, a bloody, blood being poured into a goblet, ritualistic candles, and an ominous well.

QAnon, Blood Libel, and the Satanic Panic

How the ancient, antisemitic nocturnal ritual fantasy expresses itself through the ages—and explains the right’s fascination with fringe conspiracy theories.

by Talia Lavin via The New Republic on September 29, 2020

The Firsts

The children who desegregated America.

by Adam Harris, Rebecca Rosen via The Atlantic on September 29, 2020

Illustration of 9/11 inside outline of girl

The Children of 9/11 Are About to Vote

What the youngest cohort of American voters thinks about politics, fear and the potential of the country they’ve grown up in.

by Garrett M. Graff via Politico Magazine on September 11, 2020

Officer Friendly and the Invention of the “Good Cop”

If your childhood vision of police is all pet rescues and tinfoil badges, Friendly’s “copaganda” did its job.

by Rebecca Onion via Slate on August 27, 2020

The Racist History of Celebrating the American Tomboy

Tomboys and the endless privileges accorded to white girls.

by Lisa Fagin Davis via Literary Hub on August 11, 2020

Survivors of Hiroshima

Daughters of the Bomb: A Story of Hiroshima, Racism and Human Rights

On the 75th anniversary of the A-bomb, a Japanese-American writer speaks to one of the last living survivors.

by Erika Hayasaki via Narratively on August 5, 2020

The Complex Origins of Little Orphan Annie

"No one story can completely explain Annie."

by Jeet Heer via Literary Hub on August 3, 2020

Still from "The Baby Sitters Club" TV show.

The Baby-Sitters Club Is Ready to Teach a New Generation About Work

Locked-down parents will need an army of tween child-minders. Let "The Baby-Sitters Club" show them the way.

by Rebecca Onion via Slate on July 3, 2020

Drawing of a boy and girl holding their hands behind their heads.

The Scars of Being Policed While Black

From unjustified stops of Black teenagers to a device to torment people in custody, racist police brutality runs deep.

by Laurence Ralph via New York Times Op-Docs on June 30, 2020

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