U.S. history knowledge is declining in schools. An MPS teacher tried changing that by bringing America 250 lessons to her ...

Resilience, not ease, has been the defining feature of our national story. As America prepares to celebrate its 250th ...

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For years, bands of educators have been trying to free history instruction from the mire of memorization and propel it instead with the kinds of inquiry that drive historians themselves. Now, the ...

S+B: Historians have, well, historically been content to leave current events to journalists. But you spend a lot of time writing, teaching, and thinking about what is happening now. How do you ...

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LaGarrett King is the director of the Center for K-12 Black History and Racial Literacy Education at the Univesity at Buffalo. (Photo courtesy St. Thomas University) This is your first of three free ...