I’ve always been intrigued by history, geography, and civics. Of course, I used to teach this stuff. While not everyone feels similarly, I suspect a lot more students would share my enthusiasm if they ...

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Western civilization arose in Greece in the 8th century BC, when some 1,500 city-states emerged from a murky, illiterate ...

Howard Zinn in 2002 in a class at Chicago’s Dr. Pedro Abizu Campos Puerto Rican High School. Photo by Judy Hoffman (production still from You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train). By signing up, you ...

The future of history education lies in empowering students to engage in intensive research with carefully curated collections of primary sources, enhanced by AI-driven tools that provide context, ...

I’ve always been intrigued by history, geography, and civics. Of course, I used to teach this stuff. While not everyone feels similarly, I suspect a lot more students would share my enthusiasm if they ...

Vice President Kamala Harris will have to defy history in more ways than one to win the White House this fall. Harris could make history as the first woman—and woman of color—to occupy the Oval Office ...

If Vice President Harris wins in November, she would make history as the first female president and the first woman of color to hold the highest office in the land. But Harris' campaign isn't leaning ...

Last night, I attended a wonderful program at UCLA titled Why History Matters: History in the Classroom: Controversy Across Cultures. The program featured Sami Adwan, Professor, Hebron University, ...

AUBURN, Ala. – Bruce Pearl stepped off the plane and approached the Auburn fans who greeted him at the airport on March 18, 2014. “Whatever we do,” Pearl told the crowd, “let’s do it together.” In the ...

Wes Moore, who is currently America’s lone Black governor, works from a creaky-floored second-story office in the Maryland State House. The building—Georgian brick, shaded by giant trees, in the quiet ...