teaching history

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• SOURCE: African American Policy Forum
  1/13/2022
  

  Behind the CRT Crackdown

  by Sam Adler-Bell

  The anti-CRT movement "is not merely a battle against a theory of racism or American history, but a battle against the idea that we might join forces to make American society more fair, more equal, and more kind."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/15/2022
  

  A Teenager Got More Women of Color Represented in the History Curriculum of a Large School District

  "Prasidha Padmanabhan, 16, founded WEAR (Women for Education, Advocacy and Rights), a nonprofit with an executive board made up entirely of students."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/14/2022
  

  A Bill Proposed a New Way to Teach History. It Got the History Wrong.

  “The gross mistake in this bill is indicative of the need to have scholars and teachers, not legislators/politicians, shaping what students at every level learn in the classroom,” Caroline Janney, a professor of Civil War history at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, said in an email.

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• SOURCE: Zinn Education Project/Teach Reconstruction
  1/12/2022
  

  State Standards are Failing to Teach Reconstruction and Erasing the Black Freedom Struggle

  by Ana Rosado, Gideon Cohn-Postar and Mimi Eisen

  A common thread connecting public ignorance of American history and the politicization of history curricula is the systemic erasure of the history of Reconstruction. This report considers how states currently mandate the teaching of the era and what they could do better. 

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• SOURCE: Clio and the Contemporary
  1/12/2022
  

  Teaching (amid a) White Backlash

  by William Horne

  What can we learn from the work of creating and teaching a course on white backlash as a historical force as another one is unfolding? 

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• SOURCE: Yes!
  1/11/2022
  

  How Scholars are Countering the Big-Money Backed "Critical Race" Panic

  "Right-wing narratives have cast the backlash against CRT as a grassroots effort led by parents concerned about bias in their children’s education. But secretive and powerful moneyed interests are at work behind the scenes."

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• SOURCE: Chalkbeat
  1/6/2022
  

  A Texas Charter School is Caught in the Critical Race Theory Storm

  By flagging the school's application for reference to historian Ibram X. Kendi, the state's actions suggest that Texas is going beyond the text of recent legislation to suppress controversial ideas. 

• SOURCE: IndyStar
  1/6/2022
  

  Neutral on Nazis? Indiana Legislature Walks Back Remarks

  "During a committee hearing Wednesday about Senate Bill 167, a wide-ranging bill inspired by the national discourse over critical race theory, history teacher Matt Bockenfeld raised concerns about what the bill would require of teachers."

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  1/9/2022
  

  MLK's History Lessons

  by Jelani Cobb

  Martin Luther King's use of American history to inform his developing demands for political and economic justice would run afoul fo legislation being passed by a growing number of states to restrict teaching about racism and inequality in the nation's past. 

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• SOURCE: Clio and the Contemporary
  1/7/2022
  

  White Backlash and the American State – Syllabus

  by William Horne

  A syllabus for a course addressing the relationship of extralegal violence and institutional defenses of white supremacy in American history. 

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• SOURCE: WXXI
  12/13/2021
  

  Who's Teaching Local History?

  Michael Oberg and Joel Helfrich of SUNY-Geneseo's Center for Local and Municipal History discuss connecting history students with local historians to unearth and tell their region's history.

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  12/15/2021
  

  DeSantis Enlists Parent Vigilantes in Escalation of CRT Culture War

  "As for Florida teachers, why would any of them invite a lawsuit from the local MAGA commissar by suggesting their nation was anything other than the divinely blessed paradise of freedom and opportunity?"

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• 12/19/2021
  

  Veracity or Virality? How Social Media are Transforming History

  by Jason Steinhauer

  History is a growing content category on social media, but history content going viral has very little to do with its quality or reliability. The author of a new book on history on social media says historians and readers need to understand how political agendas and content algorithms are shaping history on the web. 

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• SOURCE: PEN America
  12/13/2021
  

  Scope, Speed of Educational Gag Order Laws Increasing Nationwide

  by Jeffrey Sachs

  Under the South Carolina bill, racism, fascism, and homophobia can all be understood as cultural or political beliefs. Educators would be prohibited from describing those who hold such beliefs as bigoted or oppressive. 

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• SOURCE: New Statesman
  12/8/2021
  

  Historians are Soft Targets in the Culture War. They Need to Fight Back

  by David Olusoga

  "Historians should repeatedly point out that the 'rewriting of history' is not some act of professional misconduct but literally the job of professional historians."

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  12/8/2021
  

  10 Books Texas Doesn't Want You to Read

  "The subjectivity involved in defining inappropriate, obscene, or distressing—and the danger of politicizing such definitions—is at the center of Krause’s challenge, and it shows in the books on his ban list."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  12/8/2021
  

  Racism in the Curriculum Isn't Limited to History – It Affects Math, Too

  by Theodore Kim

  Math is not a neutral space, beyond the reach of history and entrenched racism. At a time of anti-Asian prejudice, American mathematicians obscured the importance of Chinese scholars in developing core concepts that are still significant today, preserving the fiction of math as a western intellectual tradition.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  12/8/2021
  

  Texas is Making Critical Race Theory a Monster Under the Bed

  by Jennifer Hobson Gormer

  It's clear that the motive for Texas's law restricting how the subject of American racism is taught is to cast doubt on the legitimacy of present-day protests against inequality. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  12/3/2021
  

  Can We Teach Grad Students in the Humanities to Collaborate?

  by Leonard Cassuto

  Historians “do everything alone,” said Professor Rita Chin of the University of Michigan. The archival work, the thinking, the writing — all are structured as solitary pursuits.

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• 12/5/2021
  

  What Will We Lose if the Anti-CRT Movement Wins?

  by Roy E. Finkenbine

  "Conservative parents and pundits want to prevent white students from being exposed to the messiness and inequities of America’s past.  What will it mean if they succeed in doing so?"