As an English teacher in 2016, I spent a summer in the archives of the Brooklyn Historical Society learning about abolition and women’s suffrage efforts. I held original bills of sale of young Black ...

As a historian working in professional military education, I find myself in the awkward position of warning strategists and students alike against drawing too many lessons from history. As quick ...

A new exhibit at the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum reminds us that before some of the really terrible recent Supreme Court decisions, there was a series of awful decisions through the ...

For those who survived the Holocaust or had family members who suffered, the atrocities are seared into their memories. Ensuring no one ever forgets is at the heart of numerous courses and programs ...

Several years ago, I developed a set of principles intended to center Black people’s humanity through their voices, experiences, and perspectives in Black history lessons. This Black Historical ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — — 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 ...

The annual return of students to school is a moment to think about the history they inherit as Americans – and our critical need to ensure that they are learning about our shared history so they can ...

TEXAS, USA — This story was first published in The Texas Tribune and can be viewed here. A new Texas curriculum seeks to captivate first-grade students with a lesson on Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s ...

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The past, famously, is a foreign country. Unfortunately, it often seems that “foreign wars” fought before 1900 are too distant to find their way into our policy analysis. And without understanding the ...