STARKVILLE, Miss.—As students return to classrooms this fall, a new textbook revised by a Mississippi State veteran educator sheds new light on the Magnolia State’s history. Kenneth Anthony (Photo by ...

Texas' school board approved new history textbooks Friday for use across the nation's second-largest state, but only after defeating six and seeing a top publisher withdraw a seventh - capping months ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

The 100 nights of fractious, emotional protests over civil rights and police brutality that engulfed Portland three summers ago are going down in history. George Floyd’s murder and the subsequent ...

A complex understanding of the past is vital to understanding what’s happening in the United States today. But many of us often don’t get the historical background we need in school. For example, to ...

This past summer's uproar over "Try That in a Small Town," a song by country music star Jason Aldean, is over—but with the school year underway, the controversy over the song remains an instructive ...

Until recently, professional historians and history departments in universities broadly recognised Indian history as divided between the Ancient, Medieval and Modern periods. The more contentious ...

It is well-documented that U.S. history textbooks have provided a limited picture of the role race and ethnicity play in the American past and present. Figuring out how to remedy that, though, has ...