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The New York Times and the Movement for Integrated Education in New York City

When covering the struggle against school segregation in its own backyard, the paper of record came up short.
by Ethan Scott Barnett via The Metropole on November 29, 2017

The Secret Feminist History of Brown Paper Bags

Tracing the connection between a ubiquitous paper product and the women’s liberation movement.
by Tove Danovich via Eater on November 15, 2017

Why Students Are Ignorant About The Civil Rights Movement

Mississippi’s outdated textbooks teach an abbreviated version of civil rights, undermining the state’s new ‘innovative’ standards.
by Sierra Mannie via The Hechinger Report on October 1, 2017
Women with field hockey sticks in a physical education class circa 1920.

The Physical Education of Women is Fraught With Issues of Body, Sexuality, and Gender

A new book, ‘Active Bodies,’ explores the history.
by Nina Renata Aron via Timeline on September 21, 2017
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Public Education

From the politics of access and funding to the craft of teaching, debates about education have always boiled down to one fundamental question: What – and who – are public schools for?

The Department of Justice Is Overseeing the Resegregation of American Schools

A major investigation reveals that white parents are leading a secession movement with dire consequences for black children.
by Emmanuel Felton via The Nation on September 6, 2017
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The Invention of Middle School

In the 1960s, there was no grand vision behind the idea of a middle school. The problem that the model sought to solve was segregation.
by Paul S. George, Livia Gershon via JSTOR Daily on August 29, 2017
Confederate rally.

The Book that Explains Charlottesville

The University of Virginia has long been a bastion of white supremacy and white supremacy–validating scholarship.
by Marshall Steinbaum via Boston Review on August 14, 2017

When Privatization Means Segregation: Setting the Record Straight on School Vouchers

The ugly roots of the "school choice" movement.
by Leo Casey via Dissent on August 9, 2017

The Architect of the Radical Right

How the Nobel Prize–winning economist James M. Buchanan shaped today’s antigovernment politics.
by Sam Tanenhaus via The Atlantic on June 20, 2017

The Word Is ‘Nemesis’: The Fight to Integrate the National Spelling Bee

For talented black spellers in the 1960s, the segregated local spelling bee was the beginning of the long road to Washington, D.C.
by Cynthia R. Greenlee via Longreads on June 5, 2017

Bathing in Controversy

For a century, school showers have anticipated the current debate about bathrooms.
by J. Y. Chua via The Atlantic on June 2, 2017

Catholic Immigrants Didn’t Make It on Their Own. They Shouldn’t Expect Others To.

A variety of government programs helped white American Catholics get where they are today.
by Una Cadegan via Washington Post on April 18, 2017
Nurses prepare food in a hospital kitchen.
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Counting Calories

Charlotte Biltekoff talks about the rise of calories at the turn of the 20th century and the push to get scientific nutritional ideas into American mainstream.
via BackStory on January 6, 2017
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The Pledge of Allegiance's Creepy Past

Seventy-four years ago today, lawmakers passed an amendment to the U.S. Flag Code.
by Stephen A. Smith, Jordan G Teicher, Cecilia O'Leary, Tony Platt, Mary Tierney Coutts, Laura Bell Everett via JSTOR Daily on December 22, 2016

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
Stylized graphic of black and white schools on fire.

Burning 'Brown' to the Ground

In many Southern states, "Brown v. Board of Education" fueled decades of resistance to school integration.
by Carol Anderson via Teaching Tolerance on October 1, 2016
Children reading a storybook with a teacher.

What We've Learned In the 50 Years Since One Report Introduced the Black-White Achievement Gap

A Harvard education professor explains how far we've come in answering some of the most important questions in education since the famous Coleman report.
by Heather C. Hill via Chalkbeat on July 13, 2016

American Secular

The founding moment of the United States brought a society newly freed from religion. What went wrong?
by Sam Haselby via Aeon on May 26, 2016
Two young women holding up protest signs.

Demand for School Integration Leads to Massive 1964 Boycott — In New York City

The largest civil rights demonstration in U.S. history was not in Little Rock. Or Selma. Or Montgomery. It happened in New York City.
by Yasmeen Khan via WNYC on February 3, 2016
Protestors walking with pro-integration posters

"Jim Crow Must Go"

Thousands of New York City students staged a one-day boycott to protest segregation – and it barely made the history books.
by Matt Delmont via Salon on February 3, 2016
Booker T. Washington writing at a desk.

Toward a Usable Black History

It will help black Americans to recall that they have a history that transcends victimization and exclusion.
by John McWhorter via City Journal on December 23, 2015
A depiction of the female reproduction system in an early sex ed film.

Slut-Shaming, Eugenics, and Donald Duck

The scandalous history of sex-ed movies.
by Lisa Hix via Collectors Weekly on December 12, 2014

‘Brown v. Board of Education’ Didn’t End Segregation, Big Government Did

Sixty years after the decision, it’s worth remembering it took Congress's Civil Rights Act to finally smash Jim Crow.
by Ian Millhiser via The Nation on May 14, 2014

Modern Segregation

Policies of de jure racial segregation and a history of state-sponsored violence continue to have an impact on African Americans.
by Richard Rothstein via Economic Policy Institute on March 6, 2014

The Massive Liberal Failure on Race, Part I

How the liberal embrace of busing hurt the cause of integration.
by Tanner Colby via Slate on February 3, 2014
Opponents of school desegregation in Montgomery, Alabama.

How Much Had Schools Really Been Desegregated by 1964?

Ten years after 'Brown v. Board of Education', Martin Luther King Jr. condemned how little had changed in the nation's classrooms.
by Martin Luther King Jr. via The Atlantic on May 7, 1964
Illustration by Anna Ruch, featuring founder Thomas Jefferson.

Tell Students the Truth About American History

We owe it to Americans of all ages to be honest about the country’s past, including its contradictions.
by Clint Smith via The Atlantic on November 16, 2025
A collage of the American flag.

My Father’s Flag and the Idea of America

Over decades, and through harrowing experiences, my family held on to this bit of cloth as a reminder of everything they believed in—and were running toward.
by Laurence H. Tribe via The Bulwark on November 7, 2025
Zohran Mamdani.

Zohran Mamdani, John Lindsay, and the Specter of "Kahanism" in 2025 America

What does 1968 have to do with 2025?
by Shaul Magid via Shaul's Substack on November 5, 2025
George Washington portrait in which he rests his hand on his hip.

A Great Reputation Among Men: Race and Contested Masculinities in the Early American Republic

A Quaker abolitionist hoped to convince the Virginian Founders to end slavery by appealing to their sense of manhood. They were not persuaded.
by Kathleen Telling via Age of Revolutions on October 13, 2025
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