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President Harry S. Truman signing a bill authorizing the Fulbright Program, with Sen. J. William Fulbright (left) and Assistant Secretary of State William Benton.

The Fulbright Program Is Quietly Burying Its History

Fulbright created an exchange program which sends Americans abroad and advances international engagement and mutual understanding. Yet it’s not his only legacy.

by Karin Fischer via The Chronicle of Higher Education on December 8, 2023

"The American River Ganges," a 1871 political cartoon by Thomas Nast from Harper's Weekly, depicting Catholic priests as foreign crocodiles preying on US children, illustrating the fear behind the proposed Blaine Amendment.

After the Blaine Era

The landscape for educational freedom is finally freed of 19th century prejudices, but other federal constitutional questions remain.

by Bruno V. Manno via Law & Liberty on December 4, 2023

Betty Friedan circa 1975.

What Betty Friedan Knew

Judge the author of the “Feminine Mystique” not by the gains she made, but by her experience.

by Hermione Hoby via The New Republic on December 1, 2023

Lily Gladstone and Martin Scorsese on the set of "Killers of the Flower Moon."

How Publicity of Killers of the Flower Moon Recalls Rosebud Yellow Robe’s 1950 Hollywood Tour

On the performance of authenticity and the native stories left to tell.

by Paul Morton via Literary Hub on November 20, 2023

Tank on the street of Santiago, Chile.

How Pinochet's Chile Became a Laboratory for Neoliberalism

The Chicago Boys and the tragedy of the Chilean coup.

by Vincent Bevins via The Nation on November 14, 2023

School house with Black children playing around it.

How Reconstruction Created American Public Education

Freedpeople and their advocates persuaded the nation to embrace schooling for all.

by Adam Harris via The Atlantic on November 13, 2023

Max von Sydow and Jason Miller in ‘The Exorcist.’

‘The Exorcist’ & Catholicism

What explains the traditionalist Catholic infatuation with ‘The Exorcist’?

by Paul Baumann via Commonweal on October 31, 2023

A photograph of Louisa May Alcott.

Nonfiction That Rivals Little Women: The Forgotten Essays of Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott is best known for Little Women, but she earned her first taste of celebrity as an essayist.

by Liz Rosenberg via Literary Hub on October 24, 2023

Woman leading a group of twelve other women in floor exercises.

Fit Nation

A conversation about "the gains and pains of America’s exercise obsession."

by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Lara Freidenfelds via Nursing Clio on September 27, 2023

What Even Is "Leadership"?

And why won't all the worst people stop talking about it?

by Charles Petersen via Making History on September 21, 2023

Boys at Kamloops Indian Residential School, probably before the 1920s.

We Must Not Forget What Happened to the World’s Indigenous Children

Thousands of Indigenous children suffered and died in residential ‘schools’ around the world. Their stories must be heard.

by Steve Minton via Aeon on July 21, 2023

Television with LeVar Burton holding book and surrounded by rainbows.

How An Untested, Cash-Strapped TV Show About Books Became An American Classic

Despite facing political headwinds and raising 'suspicion' among publishers, 'Reading Rainbow' introduced generations of American kids to books.

by Jonathan Taylor via Los Angeles Times on July 11, 2023

School buses.

Why Are Schools Still Segregated? The Broken Promise of Brown v. Board of Education

The Brown v. Board of Education ruling opened the floodgates for busing across the country, but what happened when the buses stopped rolling?

via Retro Report on June 22, 2023

Colin Kaepernick at the ACLU SoCal Hosts Annual Bill of Rights Dinner in 2017.

“Black History Is an Absolute Necessity.”

A conversation with Colin Kaepernick on Black studies, white supremacy, and capitalism.

by Colin Kaepernick, Indigo Olivier via The New Republic on June 19, 2023

Illustration of a man with a shovel working a farm; the background shows scenes of family and communal life

Deep States

The old Midwest was a place animated by the belief that a self-governing republic is the best regime for man.

by Wilfred M. McClay via Claremont Review of Books on May 31, 2023

University of Berlin, Germany, circa 1900

Academic Freedom’s Origin Story

While academic freedom is foundational to American higher education today, it is a relatively recent development.

by Melissa De Witte via Stanford Graduate School Of Education on May 1, 2023

Collage of poets and scoring.

The Gift of Slam Poetry

A short history of a misunderstood literary genre and the world it created.

by Joshua Bennett via The Nation on April 26, 2023

Cover of sheet music for “Euphonic Sounds: A Syncopated Novelty” by Scott Joplin (1909).

Scott Joplin

The ragtime composer's life, career, and resurrection.

by Alan Jacobs via Comment on April 24, 2023

A painting of Mother Cabrini.

Mother Cabrini, the First American Saint of the Catholic Church

Remembering Mother Cabrini's humanitarian work for Italian immigrants.

by Nick Ripatrazone via Humanities on April 6, 2023

Poster encouraging cancer patients to seek information from various government agencies, showing a woman holding a caduceus.

After the War on Cancer

Raising awareness helped turn cancer from a stigmatized disease into a treatable one. But it hasn’t made affording that treatment any easier.

by Libby Watson via The Baffler on March 23, 2023

An 18th-century building travels Feb. 10 from its location on the campus of William & Mary to Colonial Williamsburg’s Historic Area.

Schools for Black American Children Predated the Revolution

Efforts in early America to educate Black children offer us a template for addressing educational inequality today.

by Grant Stanton via Made By History 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

Civil Rights marchers with signs for equal rights, housing, and integrated schools.

How a Group of Black Activists Inspired Solidarity and Struggle in Mississippi

Freedom Summer in the segregationist heart of the Deep South.

by Dan Berger via Literary Hub on January 25, 2023

Empty classroom.

The Neoliberal Superego of Education Policy

Institutional reform is no match for pervasive structural inequality.

by Christopher Newfield via Boston Review on January 18, 2023

Lillian Gilbreth lecturing at Purdue University.

Recognizing the Humanity of the Worker

Lillian Gilbreth, who died just over fifty years ago, saw that the worker could not be understood as a cog in the machine.

by Richard Gunderman via Law & Liberty on January 12, 2023

Opened standardized test booklet with pencil on top.

Can Standardized Testing Escape Its Racist Past?

High-stakes testing has struggled with overt and implicit biases. Should it still have a place in modern education?

by Deborah Blum via UnDark on December 14, 2022

Brooklyn Bridge with the city skyline in the background.

When Panama Came to Brooklyn

“For those Afro-Caribbean Panamanian who had lived through Panama’s Canal Zone apartheid, Brooklyn segregation probably came as no surprise.”

by Kaysha Corinealdi via Public Books on November 30, 2022

Johnny Cash.

Far From Folsom Prison: More to Music Inside

Johnny Cash wasn't the only superstar to play in prisons. Music, initially allowed as worship, came to be seen as a rockin' tool of rehabilitation.

by Morgan Godvin via JSTOR Daily on November 29, 2022

Lutiant LaVoye

Searching for Lutiant: An American Indian Nurse Navigates a Pandemic

A 1918 letter sent a historian diving into the archives to learn more about its author.

by Brenda J. Child via Perspectives on History on November 21, 2022

Manifest Destiny painting by Emanuel Leutze

No, Liberal Historians Can’t Tame Nationalism

Historians should reject nationalism and help readers to avoid its dangers.

by Eran A. Zelnik via The Activist History Review on November 8, 2022

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