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Why Learn History (When It's Already on Your Phone)

  • Sam Wineburg
2018
The University of Chicago Press

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Featured Excerpts

  • Collage of children in school and historic and patriotic images.
    Q&A

    Amid the Online Glut of Facts and Fake News, We’re Teaching History Wrong

    This is even trickier now that the language of critical thinking has been appropriated by the alt-right.
    by Rebecca Onion, Sam Wineburg via Slate on September 18, 2018
  • Zinn's book, "A People's History of the United States."
    Argument

    Howard Zinn’s Anti-Textbook

    Teachers and students love "A People’s History of the United States." But it’s just as limited as the textbooks it replaces.
    by Sam Wineburg via Slate on September 16, 2018
  • Schoolchildren writing on a chalkboard.
    Book Review

    Why Read "Why Learn History"

    (When It’s Already Summarized in This Article?)
    by Elizabeth Elliot via Perspectives on History on August 20, 2018
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