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Milton Bradley surrounded by colorful design

The Meaning of Life

What Milton Bradley started.
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on May 14, 2007
Mel and Norma Gabler.

The Guardians Who Slumbereth Not

Textbook watchdogs Mel and Norma Gabler are good, sincere, dedicated people, who just may be destroying your child’s education.
by William Martin via Texas Monthly on November 1, 1982
Screen capture of Fred Rogers at a desk with microphones, testifying before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications.

Fred Rogers Testifies Before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications

The young Mr. Rogers brings down the house in his 1969 effort to save public broadcasting from the chopping block.
by U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation via YouTube on May 1, 1969
A painting of an election taking place.

Children Will Listen

A political education begins with knockoff opinions amid the 1840 U.S. presidential election.
by Andrew Dickson White via Lapham’s Quarterly on March 1, 1905
Freedom's Journal front page, Vol. 1 No. 1, March 16, 1827

The First African American Newspaper Appears, 1827

A letter from the creators of Freedom's Journal to their initial patrons.
by Samuel Cornish, John Brown Russwurm via Freedom's Journal on March 16, 1827
Protestors at the Global Climate Strike in London, March 2019.

Why Everyone Hates White Liberals

1988 was a pivotal year in how “white liberals” are perceived by their fellow Americans.
by Kevin M. Schultz via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on June 25, 2025
Drawings of women authors

How Margaret Fuller Set Minds on Fire

High-minded and scandal-prone, a foe of marriage who dreamed of domesticity, Fuller radiated a charisma that helped ignite the fight for women’s rights.
by James Marcus via The New Yorker on June 2, 2025
Title card for "Legacies of Eugenics" series, with a drawing of a form board for teaching shapes.

Trumpian “Common Sense” and the History of IQ Tests

On the troubling history of IQ tests and special education.
by Pepper Stetler via Los Angeles Review of Books on May 8, 2025
RFK Jr speaking at a podium.

RFK’s Ideas About “Wellness Farms” for Young People Are Eugenic and Unconstitutional

RFK’s call for “wellness farms” revives a grim legacy of forced labor, racial injustice, and eugenics disguised as mental health reform.
by Kylie Smith via Nursing Clio on May 8, 2025
Painting of a person doing arithemetic.
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Solve for AI

What the history of the pocket calculator reveals about the future of AI in classrooms.
by Bronwen Everill via HNN on April 30, 2025
Drawing of Black and white Liberian Senators sitting behind desks while one speaks and a crowd watches

Freedom and Its Limits

Edward Wilmot Blyden sorted through competing ideas about the meaning of freedom in 19th-Century Liberia.
by Shae Omonijo via Journal of the History of Ideas Blog on April 30, 2025
An illustration of a government building holding up an American home with a stylized hand.

The Good Society Department

Once upon a time, there was a federal government department that helped design and distribute tools for living the good life. What happened to that vision?
by John Last via Noema on April 3, 2025
City College of New York in a still from Joseph Dorman’s Arguing the World, 1997.

The 176-Year Argument

How the City College of New York went from an experiment in public education to an intellectual hot spot for working class and immigrant students.
by Vivian Gornick via New York Review of Books on April 3, 2025
A photograph of Frederick Douglass imposed on the cover of The Columbian Orator by Caleb Bingham.

The Columbian Orator Taught Nineteenth-Century Americans How to Speak

For strivers like Lincoln, guides to rhetoric had a special currency in the nineteenth century.
by Danny Heitman via Humanities on April 2, 2025
Exhibitions at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C.

A Truly Patriotic Education Tells Many Stories

Trump’s executive orders can’t define diversity out of history.
by David M. Perry via Foreign Policy on March 31, 2025
Boston’s Faneuil Hall at night.

When Is History Advocacy?

Advocacy should not be a dirty word.
by Nick DeLuca via Contingent on March 30, 2025
Detail of landscape painting Villa Menaggio, Lago di Como by Sophia Peabody Hawthorne.

Transcending the Glass Ceiling

Five women who made important contributions to 19th-century American philosophy finally get their due.
by Lydia Moland via The American Scholar on March 27, 2025
Collage of Abram Colby and his newspaper.

They Tried to Bury Him: The Hidden History of Abram Colby

The radical legacy of Abram Colby, one of Georgia’s first Black legislators, was almost erased by racist revisionists.
by Greer Brigham via Scalawag on March 26, 2025
People attending a teach-in.

A Way to Honor the Teach-in Movement at 60

It’s time for another national teach-in movement.
by Robert Cohen via Inside Higher Ed on March 21, 2025
Mary Beth Tinker and her mother.
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How Tinker v. Des Moines Established Students’ Free Speech Rights

“The lesson of the Tinker case is: Speak up. Stand up,” Mary Beth Tinker told us.
via Retro Report on March 13, 2025
Erased chalkboard in empty classroom

Cruel to Your School

Public education is meant to be a great equalizer. That’s why Trump wants to do undo it.
by Jennifer C. Berkshire via The Baffler on February 27, 2025
Screen projecting the logo for "Facing History and Ourselves."

A Progressive Education Nonprofit’s Silence on Gaza

Facing History & Ourselves, known for its model lessons on genocide, has angered staff and disappointed teachers by refusing to provide resources about Gaza.
by Alex Kane via Jewish Currents on February 25, 2025
Minnijean Brown, Thelma Mothershed, and Melba Pattillo (three of the Little Rock Nine), and NAACP president Daisy Bates.

Selling Out Our Public Schools

For decades, the term “school choice” was widely and rightly dismissed as racist. Now it’s the law in thirty-three states.
by Diane Ravitch via New York Review of Books on February 20, 2025
Print depicting a teacher and students at a freedmen's school in Vicksburg.

Why America’s First Department of Education Didn’t Last

Created in 1867, the short-lived office was mired in the ongoing American strife after the Civil War.
by Petula Dvorak via Retropolis on February 4, 2025
A flag depicting a hand pulling back the American flag to reveal a Confederate flag.

Patriotic Education and the End of History

Or, a brief history of today's erasure of history.
by Jeff Sharlet via Scenes from a Slow Civil War on January 30, 2025
Gov. Ronald Reagan confronted student protesters in Sacramento weeks before dismissing “intellectual luxuries.”

The Day the Purpose of College Changed

After February 28, 1967, the main reason to go was to get a job.
by Dan Berrett via The Chronicle of Higher Education on January 26, 2025

Opus Dei, Embezzlement, and Human Trafficking

The Catholic order has branches all over the world, and a deep history of unethical and illegal behavior.
by Mark Oppenheimer, Gareth Gore via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on January 21, 2025
The Battle for the Mind (Tim LaHaye, 1980); from Creationism to Christian Nationalism

The Battle for the Mind (Tim LaHaye, 1980); from Creationism to Christian Nationalism

Tim LaHaye bridged Reagan-era anti-Communism to today’s Christian Nationalism, opposing humanism, evolution, and secularism, emphasizing biblical morality.
by Paul Braterman via 3 Quarks Daily on December 29, 2024
A member of the Michigan National Guard stands at the ready as firemen battle a blaze in Detroit in July 1967.

White and Black Activists Worked Strategically in Parallel in Detroit 50 Years Ago for Civil Rights

Since George Floyd’s murder, some white allies seek ways to fight racial inequality. Detroit’s 1960s "racially parallel organizing" offers insights.
by Say Burgin via The Conversation on December 5, 2024
William H. Taft with his extended family in 1918.

Review: ‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann

A new book celebrates an American political dynasty dedicated to public service. Why have they been forgotten?
by Antony Lentin via History Today on November 25, 2024
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