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The Many Explosions of Los Angeles in the 1960s
Set the Night on Fire isn't just a portrait of a city in upheaval. It's a history of uprisings for civil rights, against poverty, and for a better world.
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Samuel Farber
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Jacobin
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June 29, 2020
Teaching History Is Hard
Bunk Executive Director Ed Ayers on the importance of teaching students to think for themselves.
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Ed Ayers
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Medium
on
April 28, 2020
Can Slavery Reënactments Set Us Free?
Underground Railroad simulations have ignited controversy about whether they confront the country’s darkest history or trivialize its gravest traumas.
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Julian Lucas
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The New Yorker
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February 10, 2020
The Queer South: Where The Past is Not Past, and The Future is Now
Minnie Bruce Pratt shares her own story as a lesbian within the South, and the activism that occurred and the activism still ongoing.
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Minnie Bruce Pratt
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Scalawag
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January 27, 2020
partner
The Life and Times of Franz Boas
The founder of cultural anthropology, Franz Boas challenged the reigning notions of race and culture.
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Matthew Wills
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JSTOR Daily
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December 1, 2019
First Day of School—1960, New Orleans
Leona Tate thought it must be Mardi Gras. Gail thought they were going to kill her.
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The Kitchen Sisters
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November 12, 2019
The Unmistakable Black Roots of 'Sesame Street'
Celebrating its 50th anniversary, the beloved children’s television show was shaped by the African-American communities in Harlem and beyond.
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Bryan Greene
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Smithsonian
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November 7, 2019
partner
Lessons From the Challenger Tragedy
Normalization of deviance is a useful concept that was developed to explain how the Challenger disaster happened.
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Retro Report
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October 29, 2019
An Attempt to Resegregate Little Rock, of All Places
A battle over local control in a city that was the face of integration shows the extent of the new segregation problem in the U.S.
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Adam Harris
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The Atlantic
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October 22, 2019
The Road Not Taken
The shuttering of the GM works in Lordstown will also bury a lost chapter in the fight for workers’ control.
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Sarah Jaffe
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The New Republic
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June 24, 2019
For Some, School Integration Was More Tragedy Than Fairy Tale
Almost 60 years later, a mother regrets her decision to send her 6-year-old into a hate-filled environment.
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Jarvis Deberry
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nola.com
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May 29, 2019
This, Too, Was History
The battle over police-torture and reparations in Chicago’s schools.
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Peter C. Baker
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The Point
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January 14, 2019
How History Class Divides Us
What if America's inability to agree on its shared history—and how to teach it—is a cause of our polarization and political dysfunction, rather than a symptom?
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Stephen Sawchuk
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Education Week
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October 23, 2018
Teaching the Rank and File
The history of the once-ubiquitous labor schools holds lessons for any future revival of working-class activism.
by
William S. Cossen
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Jacobin
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September 24, 2018
The Briggs Initiative: Remembering a Crucial Moment in Gay History
The lessons from a critical California election in which voters rejected a virulently homophobic ballot measure.
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Trudy Ring
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The Advocate
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August 31, 2018
America’s First Female Mapmaker
Through Emma Williard's imagination, a collection of rare maps that illustrates past reality.
by
Ted Widmer
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The Paris Review
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June 18, 2018
The Drill
Dezmond Floyd, age 10, has an open discussion with his mother Tanai about what happens during his school’s active shooter drills.
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Dezmond Floyd
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Tanai Benard
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Story Corps
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March 23, 2018
The Story Behind California's Unprecedented Textbooks
California Is adopting LGBT-Inclusive history textbooks. It's the latest chapter in a centuries-long fight.
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Katy Steinmetz
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TIME
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November 14, 2017
partner
How The Culture Wars Destroyed Public Education
The left's Pyrrhic victory in the culture wars.
by
Andrew Hartman
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Made By History
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September 5, 2017
partner
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
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Livia Gershon
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JSTOR Daily
on
August 29, 2017
Knowing How vs. Knowing That: Navigating the Past
How should we interpret the United States Constitution?
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Jonathan Gienapp
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Process: A Blog for American History
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April 4, 2017
A Popular '40s Map of American Folklore Was Destroyed by Fears of Communism
The government saw Red when looking at William Gropper's painting of the United States.
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Kyle Carsten Wyatt
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Atlas Obscura
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March 27, 2017
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
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Chalkbeat
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July 13, 2016
How “Fifty Nifty United States” Became One of the Greatest Mnemonic Devices of All Time
How you, your friends, and Lin-Manuel Miranda all learned this catchy, state-naming tune.
by
L. V. Anderson
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Slate
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November 30, 2015
Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber
Purposely brutalizing psychological experiments may have confirmed Theodore Kaczynski’s still-forming belief in the evil of science while he was in college.
by
Alston Chase
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The Atlantic
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June 1, 2000
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