The battle over truth in our national parks
As federal sites scrub "disparaging" history, we examine the fallout of the "Restoring Truth and Sanity" order on America's most sacred landmarks.
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When History and Civics collide in the classroom
When the past gets edited and the present bends the rules, how do teachers explain democracy to their students?
On knowing the meaning of U.S. history
When you think about history, do you just know the facts, or are you gaining an understanding of the real context and significance of events?
Movie review: The U.S. and the Holocaust
Don't miss this documentary series; it examines racism & antisemitism in the US during Hitler's rise to power in Nazi Germany.
Suburban H.S. performs mock slave auction skit
A skit that mocked a slave auction, performed by a few white suburban kids, offended students from a mostly-black school on Chicago's South Side.
Kids become sex slaves under ISIS rule
Young girls are being captured and used as sex slaves by the powers that be in the Islamic State (ISIS). It must be stopped.
The South will not rise again
Texas will be using new textbooks this fall, which give slavery an inferior billing when it comes to what started the Civil War. Wrong.