Wendy L. Wall, professor of 20th-century American history at Binghamton University The unprecedented nature of this attack, combined with the widespread sense that it marks a historical turning point, ...

So much about the world is broken right now. The planet is boiling, inequality is skyrocketing, and government gridlock is more darkly comic than ever. The Hollywood industrial complex regurgitates ...

NEW ORLEANS — As some middle school students in Louisiana open their textbooks to learn about state history, there’s concern they’re not getting the entire history. “I would be very surprised if sixth ...

The horror of slavery was barely mentioned in the history textbooks read by Baby Boomers. Public domain photo of slaves in Georgia via Wikimedia Commons As numerous new histories center racial ...

The teaching of history has become a flashpoint in the culture wars. But while the battle is fierce, it’s not new. An earlier round in the conflict in the 1920s — over the teaching of the American ...

This past summer's uproar over "Try That in a Small Town," a song by country music star Jason Aldean, is over—but with the school year underway, the controversy over the song remains an instructive ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—As students return to classrooms this fall, a new textbook revised by a Mississippi State veteran educator sheds new light on the Magnolia State’s history. Kenneth Anthony (Photo by ...

The “integration” of American history textbooks was an interesting part of the civil rights movement that has gone largely ignored. While American history was becoming more professional in the 1950s, ...

When LaGarrett King was growing up in Louisiana, his textbooks and teachers taught him about Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman and Martin Luther King Jr. But he often found himself wondering: Where are the ...

Albert Broussard’s intention to capitalize one letter in one word may impact millions of children around the US and how they learn about race. Broussard, a longtime history textbook writer for McGraw ...

March is Women's History Month. March is Women's History Month, which means for the past few weeks, education-focused websites have been full of lessons plans and ideas for teaching children about ...

Two States. Eight Textbooks. Two American Stories. American history textbooks can differ across the country, in ways that are shaded by partisan politics. California textbook Texas textbook California ...