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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Public schools across the country are directing teachers to use curriculum resources from a nonprofit that teaches American history through the lens of racial and sexual oppression. The Zinn Education ...

As schools across Russia and the Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine prepare for the start of the school year on September 1, some 650,000 copies of a brand-new history textbook for students in 11th ...

A Tokyo-based citizens’ group slammed the Japanese government for the erroneous portrayal of the military’s role in a battle during World War II in school textbooks, says a report. The Kodomo to ...