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 ...

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

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 ...

The textbooks, which cover Russian history from 1945 to present, also reimagine the brutality of Joseph Stalin’s policies. By Valeriya Safronova As Russian high school students returned to classes ...

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 ...