Texas is in the midst of another period when history feels contested. From debates over Critical Race Theory in the metroplex to legislation banning certain books, there have been intense conflicts ...

Ed Allison, standing outside Granby High School in Norfolk, Virginia, helped create the curriculum for the state’s African American history elective. He will be teaching Advanced Placement African ...

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 ...

Sign up for the On Point newsletter here. American classrooms have been thrust into the debate about race and our country’s history. "This notion that somehow ...

Next week the world’s largest history organization is hosting a congressional briefing in Washington to share its findings from a two-year study that looked at, among other areas, the teaching methods ...

It's no secret to anyone that Broadway musicals not only entertain all ages but are presented in a way that tells the story at key moments. Both the music and the staging combine to offer the audience ...

The students of Mike Bigelow's first-grade class light up when they're asked what they've learned about Asian American history and social studies this year. Ayansh Grover, 7, says he observes Hindu ...

In recent years, how Americans discuss, memorialize, and teach our nation’s history has become a new battlefront for the culture wars in the United States. School board meetings across the nation have ...

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 ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. A sign at the slave quarters at Monticello, the plantation owned by Thomas Jefferson. A ...

A new national monument dedicated to the murdered teenager Emmett Till and his mother honors three sites critical to Till's story, and central to the birth of America's civil rights movement. The ...

Buried among Florida's manicured golf courses and sprawling suburbs are the artifacts of its slave-holding past: the long-lost cemeteries of enslaved people, the statutes of Confederate soldiers that ...