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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

At a time when there’s a national debate over critical race theory and how much of America’s worst moments should be taught in American schools, a new book seeks to provide some context for how ...

The first comprehensive analysis of how Latinos are portrayed in widely used U.S. history textbooks reveals a lack of authenticity and a failure to cover many seminal events in the Latino experience.

It is well-documented that U.S. history textbooks have provided a limited picture of the role race and ethnicity play in the American past and present. Figuring out how to remedy that, though, has ...

A two-month-long CBS News investigation and analysis of how black history is being taught in U.S. public schools found what students learn often depends on where they live and the textbooks they are ...

My undergraduates were discussing a YouTube video that they’d been assigned to watch for class. In it, the author spoke about the dangers of whitewashing history, and this was particularly relevant ...

For many, 2023 was a year of momentous change and loss, marked by events that will be chronicled in history books for generations to come. Longstanding tensions in the Middle East erupted when Hamas ...

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 ...

Alfred Current is not a historian. But on what was supposed to be a pleasant April weekend dedicated to a YMCA fundraiser, here he was, tapped to make a judgment on whether four social studies ...

Here’s how I did it, and what I learned about how the curriculum has changed since my own school days. By Dana Goldstein Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers ...