History textbooks love clean narratives. Heroes win, villains lose, and progress marches forward. Except real history is ...

The real history is messier, more controversial, and frankly more interesting. The good news is that historians and writers ...

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 ...

To be born into a country is to inherit a narrative, a story that tells us who we are, where we’ve been and where we’re going. This is often delivered to us by a history textbook in school. Given the ...

U.S. history textbooks for high schoolers are lacking when it comes to covering the Latino experience, a report by the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy and Latino civil rights organization ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about ways to advance equity and opportunity for all. I cannot emphasize enough how wrongheaded and damaging these attacks ...