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 Phoenix-area school districts have adopted the same high school history textbook, but the content differs. How did that ...

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 ...

The horror of slavery was barely mentioned in the history textbooks read by Baby Boomers. Public domain photo of slaves in Georgia via Wikimedia Commons As numerous new histories center racial ...

The 100 nights of fractious, emotional protests over civil rights and police brutality that engulfed Portland three summers ago are going down in history. George Floyd’s murder and the subsequent ...

NEW ORLEANS — As some middle school students in Louisiana open their textbooks to learn about state history, there’s concern they’re not getting the entire history. “I would be very surprised if sixth ...

The teaching of history has become a flashpoint in the culture wars. But while the battle is fierce, it’s not new. An earlier round in the conflict in the 1920s — over the teaching of the American ...

This past summer's uproar over "Try That in a Small Town," a song by country music star Jason Aldean, is over—but with the school year underway, the controversy over the song remains an instructive ...

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 ...