history education

How the 'critical race theory' debate is crashing headlong into efforts to update social studies standards.

He didn’t make a penny.

Across party lines, Americans actually agree on teaching “divisive concepts.”

Board games invite discussions of counterfactuality and contingency, resisting the teleology and determinism that are so common to looking backward in time.

The history of education battles — from fights over evolution to critical race theory — shows why the country’s divisions are growing sharper.

Hitchcock and Herwig discuss their findings on the teaching of war in higher education.

Divisive concepts, critical race theory, and more in 2021.

We do our children no favors if we only feed them a steady diet of fairy tales that sidestep life’s complexities.

Learning the history of Mexico can help Americans better understand themselves.

"By not showing up in American history, by not hearing about Asian Americans in schools, that contributes to that sense of foreignness."

What’s new about the controversy over the Alamo’s history, and how the way Texans tell its story relates to how Americans see each other.

A historian on the unavoidable discomfort around anti-racist education.

Old feuds remind us that history is continually revised, driven by new evidence and present-day imperatives.

To our surprise, most received a well-rounded education on the history of Black people in America. Just kidding.

Educators say that anti-Asian racism is directly linked to how the AAPI community is often depicted in U.S. history lessons .

The chaotic quest to mythologize America’s past.

Born out of the Cold War, the course has a great contradiction at its heart: why do we teach history?

A lesson on contextualizing history.

But it’s one historians know all too well.

The president has blamed schools for spurring the unrest in several U.S. cities that has led in some cases to looting and fires.