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Articles On the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington, It's Time For Real Action on Freedom and Jobs Bill Fletcher, Jr.Aug 21, 2013
Articles Camouflaging the Vietnam War: How Textbooks Continue to Keep the Pentagon Papers Secret Bill BigelowJun 20, 2013
Articles 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?Linda Christensen30 May, 2013
Articles 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.Bill Bigelow24 Apr, 2013
Articles 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.Bill Bigelow20 Mar, 2013
Articles 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.Deborah Menkart13 Mar, 2013
Articles The Poison We Never Talk About in School Textbooks have made coal seem so old-fashioned, so last-century.Bill Bigelow28 Jan, 2013
Articles 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.William Katz27 Jan, 2013
Articles 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.Deborah Menkart12 Jan, 2013
Articles 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.William Katz03 Jan, 2013
Articles 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.Tim Swinehart16 Nov, 2012
Articles 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.Bill Bigelow05 Oct, 2012
Articles 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.Dave Zirin25 Jul, 2012