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Camouflaging the Vietnam War: How Textbooks Continue to Keep the Pentagon Papers Secret

Truman lied. Eisenhower lied. Kennedy lied. Johnson "lied and lied and lied." Nixon lied. Who's lying now?

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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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The Poison We Never Talk About in School

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

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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.