textbooks

We’re not equipping children to become good citizens.

The assumptions of white priority and white domination suffuse every chapter and every theme of the thousands of textbooks that have blanketed the schools of our country.

California Is adopting LGBT-Inclusive history textbooks. It's the latest chapter in a centuries-long fight.

How Miss Millie taught the Civil War.

Mississippi’s outdated textbooks teach an abbreviated version of civil rights, undermining the state’s new ‘innovative’ standards.

Texas education officials have preliminarily voted to reject a Mexican-American history textbook that scholars have said was riddled with inaccuracies.

Textbook watchdogs Mel and Norma Gabler are good, sincere, dedicated people, who just may be destroying your child’s education.

The controversial historian drew criticism from both left and right. We need more like him today.

How the fight of one Black Texas family to make freedom real offers lessons for Texas lawmakers trying to erase history from the classroom.

The Temecula Valley school board in Southern California wants to erase gay rights leader Harvey Milk from history, defaming him as a “pedophile” in the process.

Conservatives want to make students patriotic. Instead, they exacerbate historical illiteracy.

Christopher Rufo's polemical attacks against Critical Race Theory are not a new phenomenon. Public schools have long been a battlefield for ideological warfare.

The intertwined history of education, history, and patriotism in the United States.

Poe’s work reminds us that the separation of “Arts” and “Sciences” into discrete discourses of knowledge is itself a quite recent invention.

The legislature established a committee last year to “promote patriotic education.” Drafts of one of its pamphlets reveal an effort to sanitize history.

As conservative groups give up on public schools, the fight today is about looting public resources.

To colonial Americans, termination was as normal as the ABCs and 123s.

From evolution to anti-racism, parents and progressives have clashed for a century over who gets to tell our origin stories.

It erases the fact that, for the first 70 years of its existence, the US was roiled by intense, escalating conflict over slavery – a conflict only resolved by civil war.

A century ago, the most effective school-ban campaign in American history set the pattern: noise and fear, but not much change in what schools actually teach.