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Why Teaching the Tulsa Race Riot Is More Than Just Teaching History

On average, whites have 20 times the wealth of blacks. Why is that?

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What Climate Activists Can Learn From the Abolitionist Movement

We don't need to copy abolitionists' tactics, but we should learn from their willingness to defy those who put profit above people.

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Ten Years After: How Not to Teach About the Iraq War

A decade after the U.S. invasion, social studies textbooks are so full of propaganda, they might as well have been written by the Pentagon.

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These Mississippi Teens Should School the Supreme Court on the Voting Rights Act

A group of high school students in McComb, Mississippi have taken the initiative to deepen their own understanding of the struggle for voting rights.

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The Poison We Never Talk About in School

Textbooks have made coal seem so old-fashioned, so last-century.

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Teaching Outside the Textbook: From 'The Abolitionists' to a Two-Term Black President

Most children—and adults—learn little if anything about Abolitionism and its many heroes.

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Best of 2012: 11 Resources For Teaching a People’s History

The most popular books, articles, films, and lesson plans for teaching a people's history.

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The Inconvenient Truth About 'Lincoln'

"Honest Abe," along with many known and unknown black Americans and their white allies, failed to make Lincoln's final cut.

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Stealing and Selling Nature: Why We Need to Reclaim 'The Commons' in the Curriculum

it's time that our schools began to play their part in creating climate literate citizens.

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Rethinking Columbus: Towards a True People's History

Arizona's attack on Mexican American Studies has a lot in common with our national mythology around Columbus Day.

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Fists of Freedom: An Olympic Story Not Taught in Schools

Here's the history you should've been taught in school about that iconic "Black Power Salute" from the 1968 Olympics.