teaching history

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  7/28/2021
  

  Before the Anti-CRT Activists, there were White Citizens’ Councils

  by David A. Love

  "Employing the techniques of the White Citizens’ Council, a 21st-century White resistance movement threatens to turn back the clock on civil rights and racial justice and create a new future built on erasing the past."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  7/22/2021
  

  Every American Needs to Take a History of Mexico Class

  by Gabriela Soto Laveaga

  Understanding the history of the US-Mexico border from the perspective of Mexico deepens understanding not just of the relationship between nations, but of the complexity of history as opposed to simplistic nationalist myths. 

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• SOURCE: Roanoke (VA) Times
  7/29/2021
  

  Washington and Lee Names New Academic Center for Teaching Race after Ted Delaney

  The late Ted Delaney worked as a custodian at the Virginia university before earning a bachelor's degree and returning as a professor and ultimately history department chair. He was a longtime advocate for the university to address its links to the Confederacy and Lost Cause mythology. 

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• SOURCE: Texas Tribune
  7/28/2021
  

  Texas Lawmakers Used MLK’s Words To Attack Critical Race Theory. MLK III Says His Father’s Work Actually Supports It

  “Yes, we should judge people by the content of the character and not the color of their skin — but that is when we have a true, just, humane society where there are no biases, where there is no racism, where there is no discrimination,” Martin Luther King III said. “Unfortunately, all of these things still exist.”

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• SOURCE: Cross Cultural Solidarity History Project
  7/25/2021
  

  Lynn Burnett Project to Examine Examples of White Antiracism in U.S. History

  A historical project aims to highlight not the attitudes or words but the deeds of White Americans who have made meaningful contributions to the cause of racial equality. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/23/2021
  

  Opinion: Students Need to Learn About the Haters and the Helpers of our History

  by Michele Norris

  "We do our children no favors if we only feed them a steady diet of fairy tales that sidestep life’s complexities.... What’s really at work is adults trying to outrun a sense of shame."

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  7/22/2021
  

  How Professor Van Winkle Woke Up to Viewpoint Diversity

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  Could one of today's professors wake up from a twenty-year nap to a climate of productive and open classroom discussion? 

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  7/20/2021
  

  Critical Race Theory Bans Could Make Best Teaching Practices Illegal

  by Rosalie Metro

  By silencing discussion of systemic racism in classrooms, state laws encourage the interpretation of racial inequality as a product of inherent inequality among people, reinforcing racist stereotypes. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  7/19/2021
  

  Texas Senate Declares War on History

  by Julian Zelizer

  "Though much of the debate is being framed as being about "Critical Race Theory" -- a term that is politically useful since most Americans have no idea what it means -- it's really about teaching the history of race relations and civil rights."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/18/2021
  

  ‘Historical Distortions’ Test South Korea’s Commitment to Free Speech

  The South Korean government's efforts to police discussion of historical events, aimed at suppressing right-wing theories about the country's democratization movement, are an exceptional example of the tension between allowing free debate and the corrosive effects of conspiracy theories. 

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• SOURCE: TIME
  7/13/2021
  

  'The Myth Itself Becomes a Stand-in.' What Can the Alamo's History Teach Us About Teaching History?

  by Olivia B. Waxman

  Historian Raúl A. Ramos discusses the way that the myth of the Alamo has supplanted the real history, and how new state laws stand in the way of the teaching that a multiethnic Texas needs. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  7/9/2021
  

  There Is No Debate Over Critical Race Theory

  by Ibram X. Kendi

  "Republican operatives... are effectively debating themselves. They have conjured an imagined monster to scare the American people and project themselves as the nation’s defenders from that fictional monster."

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  7/15/2021
  

  The Moral Panic Over Critical Race Theory Is Coming for a North Carolina Teacher of the Year

  Rodney Pierce won honors for going beyond a teach-the-test approach to middle school social studies by pushing his students to understand the history of their local community, including racism. He fears making white parents uncomfortable may jeopardize his job.

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• SOURCE: Dissent
  7/14/2021
  

  Culture War in the Classroom: Time for Educators to Go on the Offensive

  by Leo Casey

  Educators need to fight back aggressively against the CRT panic, which is a right-wing effort to limit teaching and learning about racism in K-12 schools. A civics educator and teacher advocate explains how. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  7/12/2021
  

  New Survey Shows What Parts Of U.S. History Kids Across America Are Actually Learning

  Hasan Kwame Jeffries: "If you don't teach about race and racism in American history, past and present, I don't know what the hell you're teaching. It's not the truth."

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• SOURCE: FiveThirtyEight
  7/12/2021
  

  First It Was Sex Ed. Now It’s Critical Race Theory

  Republican attacks on cultural issues within America’s public schools follow a familiar pattern.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/13/2021
  

  Douthat: The War that Made Our World

  Columnist Ross Douthat argues that greater attention to the French and Indian War can support a view of history that embraces the complexity of the past without falling into simplistic patriotism or cynicism. 

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• SOURCE: WQCS (NPR)
  7/11/2021
  

  Texas Lawmakers Take Aim At Critical Race Theory

  "Democratic Senator Nathan Johnson says since critical race theory isn't actually taught in Texas public schools, the push for bills opposing it is all politics."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  7/7/2021
  

  Critical Race Theory is Just the New Buzzword in Conservatives’ War on Campuses

  by Lauren Lassabe

  "When understood in this historical context, it becomes clear that complaints about critical race theory are not genuine objections to one type of idea or teaching. Instead, this grievance is part of a far longer and larger campaign to reshape campuses by elevating conservative views and quashing liberal ones."

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• SOURCE: Financial Times
  7/7/2021
  

  America’s History Wars, Race, and the Flag

  by Simon Schama

  "The jarring discrepancy between the “self-evident” truth of human equality asserted in the Declaration of Independence and the brutal reality of America’s founding being built on the backs of the enslaved is not, then, some contemporary piety of the 'woke'."