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Eve Ewing, and the cover of her book "Original Sins."

How Do We Combat the Racist History of Public Education?

On the schoolhouse’s role in enforcing racial hierarchy.
by Naomi Elias, Eve L. Ewing via The Nation on March 4, 2025
A young boy stares at the camera while members of the Black Panther Party distribute free clothing to the public.
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The Black Panther Party's Under-Appreciated Legacy of Love

The Black Panther Party illustrated how communal love can be a powerful agent for change and empowerment.
by Mickell Carter via Made By History on February 19, 2025
A group of adult students at Highlander Folk School holding class outside.

The Left Needs Its “Schools of Enlightenment and Revolution”

Throughout the entire history of left-wing organizing in the United States, the building of institutions of political education has been key.
by Nelson Lichtenstein, Steve Fraser via Jacobin on February 9, 2025
Freedom School students sitting in a circle on the ground.
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60 Years Later, Freedom Schools Are Still Radical—and Necessary

The Freedom Schools curriculums developed in 1964 remain urgently needed, especially in our era of book bans and backlash.
by Jon Hale via Made By History on July 8, 2024
Longshoremen on their lunch hour at the San Francisco docks.

Jack London, "Martin Eden" and The Liberal Education in US Life

In Jack London’s novel, Martin Eden personifies debates still raging over the role and purpose of education in American life.
by Nick Romeo via Aeon on May 3, 2024

American Exchanges: Third Reich’s Elite Schools

How the Nazi government used exchange student programs to foster sympathy for Nazism in the United States.
by Helen Roche via OUPblog on March 26, 2024
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

The Long History of Parents Complaining About Their Kids’ Homework

“The child is made to study far, far beyond his physical strength.”
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on October 4, 2019
Map of the United States from 1828.

In Its First Decades, The United States Nurtured Schoolgirl Mapmakers

Education for women and emerging nationhood, illustrated with care and charm.
by Sarah Laskow via Atlas Obscura on November 28, 2018
Illustration of Laura Bridgman sitting at a desk engaged in writing the manual alphabet on her left hand

Nineteenth-Century Schools for the Deaf and Blind

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.
by Melissa Jacobs via Digital Public Library of America on February 28, 2018
A broken pencil lays on top of a standardized testing answer sheet
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What Today’s Education Reformers Can Learn From Henry David Thoreau

Snobbish elitism will hurt their cause.
by Jonathan Zimmerman via Made By History on July 12, 2017

Your Child Care Conundrum Is an Anti-Communist Plot

Red-baiters deserve at least part of the blame for the shortage of affordable, high-quality pre-K.
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on June 14, 2017

There's No Erasing the Chalkboard

Blackboards will endure as symbols of learning long after they’ve disappeared from schools.
by Kim Kankiewicz via The Atlantic on October 13, 2016
Photo of Laura Bridgman wearing opaque eyeglasses.

The Education of Laura Bridgman

She was Helen Keller before Helen Keller. Then her mentor abandoned their studies.
by Rosemary Mahoney via Slate on May 1, 2014
Florida governor Ron DeSantis signs the “Stop WOKE Act” bill in April 2022.

Curriculum Wars

A ‘new history’ of the politicized classroom misses the mark.
by Spencer Lane Jones via Commonweal on January 27, 2026
Cartoon of Donald Trump holding a pencil, erasing petroglyphs.

Serious Reservations

The Trump administration’s erasure of Indigenous history serves a larger project—yet another plunder of land.
by Kristen Martin via The Baffler on January 6, 2026
Thyra J. Edwards

An Antifascist Education

Black women’s radicalism has been fascism’s enemy for 200 years.
by Jeanelle K. Hope via Lux Magazine on December 4, 2025
A Catholic church.

Crabgrass Catholicism

A discussion with Father Stephen M. Koeth about religion and suburbanization.
by Colin Woodard, Stephen M. Koeth via The Metropole on December 3, 2025
A troop of Japanese American Girl Scouts in an internment camp.
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Complicit in the Business of Indoctrination and Incarceration

By 1943, the Girl Scouts had a presence in every Japanese American internment camp.
by Amy Erdman Farrell via HNN on November 4, 2025
The author as a boy.

We Have Talked Enough About Ourselves

How the marriage of American exceptionalism and liberal Zionism led to genocide.
by Benjamin Moser via Equator on October 29, 2025
Men and women leaving a church in Dayton, Tennessee, in 1936.

The Trial of the Century

On the hundredth anniversary of Tennessee v. Scopes.
by Brenda Wineapple via Lapham’s Quarterly on October 27, 2025

The Dawn of the Post-Literate Society

And the end of civilisation.
by James Marriott via Cultural Capital on September 19, 2025
A book on top of a column.

American Higher Ed Never Figured Out Its Purpose

The centuries-long debate over who and what college is for has yet to be resolved.
by Jake Lundberg via The Atlantic on September 18, 2025
Circles in a Circle, by Wassily Kandinsky, 1923.

The Draft of Time

On Ralph Waldo Emerson, his childhood in Boston, and his thoughts on mortality.
by James Marcus via Lapham’s Quarterly on September 2, 2025
Three students standing in front of an exhibit titled "Problems of Democracy."
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A Republic, if They Can Force It

In public schools around the country, conservatives are succeeding in their long effort to replace the word “democracy” with “constitutional republic.”
by Timothy Messer-Kruse via HNN on August 12, 2025
A Caduceus with one snake ready to attack the other.

The Rapid Rise — and Precarious Future — of the Medical University

For decades, health care subsidized research and reputation. Now that model is cracking.
by John R. Thelin, Neal H. Hutchens via The Chronicle of Higher Education on August 6, 2025
The book "A Forgotten Migration," and author Crystal R. Sanders

A Forgotten Migration: An Interview with Crystal R. Sanders

A new book examines the long history of racial inequality in higher education through the post-baccalaureate experiences of Jim Crow era African Americans.
by Ashley Everson, Crystal R. Sanders via Black Perspectives on July 28, 2025
John F. Kennedy waves to a cameraman a crowd of supporters in Los Angeles in 1960.
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To Bounce Back, Democrats Need a New John F. Kennedy Moment

JFK's presidential win in 1960 offers a guide for how Democrats can rebound in 2025.
by Bruce W. Dearstyne via Made By History on July 23, 2025
Still frame from the film Inherit the Wind depicts a legal team sitting in a packed courtroom.
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How Theater Helps Us Remember the Scopes Trial 100 Years Later

'Inherit the Wind' changed how people understand, and remember, the legendary Scopes trial.
by Charlotte M. Canning via Made By History on July 10, 2025
Photo of Claudine gay testifying to Congress.

What a 1964 Book About American Anti-Intellectualism Can Teach Us About the Trump Era

On Richard Hofstadter and the current assault on academia.
by Peter Balakian via Literary Hub on July 9, 2025
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