Version 1.0, Last Updated March 21, 2023. This guide was adapted by Professor Christopher Carlsmith (History Department) from a document prepared by Assistant Professor Katherine Flowers (English ...

In today’s classrooms, teaching Black history has become a challenge at best—and a dangerous proposition at worst. In many states, politicians have demanded teachers alter their curriculum over fears ...

Our baseless assumption that young kids can't handle learning about the past is undermining efforts to improve history and civics education. Two recent initiatives bring much-needed attention to the ...

In 1777, Vermont became the first colony to abolish slavery, and the state generally prides itself on this history. But as I have learned from preparing teachers there to teach Black history, that ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Founded in 1884, is the oldest professional association of historians in the U.S. The study was coordinated by Nicholas Kryczka, a ...

Let's look now at how political debate is also impacting students and educators when it comes to teaching Black history. Black History Month has been celebrated in some form for nearly a century. But, ...

Teacher Sari Beth Rosenberg shared with PIX11 News what that means in terms of classroom instruction now. “It’s something else in the history book,” said the U.S. History teacher who wrote curriculum ...

Associate Professor of History Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor will never forget the first time she heard a student use the N-word. It was in 2010, in a class about the Civil War and the period surrounding ...

Mr. Durst is a fine art photographer based in Austin, Texas. Much like in Florida, the fight over public education in Texas has become a lightning rod in the country’s culture wars. Seventh-grade ...

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has spearheaded changes that will see history taught as a standalone core subject from 2024. Siamese King Chulalongkorn’s royal funerary urn is conveyed to his the ...