The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2020

It was startling, Nia thought, how studying history could leave her feeling the same heaviness she’d felt scrolling social media after police had killed Michael Brown, Tamir Rice and Laquan McDonald, young Black people of her own generation. It was the summer of 2019, and Nia was 15. Tatiana Bennett was studying the history of hip-hop.

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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Principal Faculty Joshua Brown is professor of history emeritus and former executive director of the American Social History Project and professor of history at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Halls Professor of the History of Art (emerita) at Indiana University. He is a noted scholar of visual culture in U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

As of this fall, it had 198,645 students, compared with 205,778 in the 2019-2020 school year, and was still trying to track down students who’d gone missing. Sharahn Santana , African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. It feels like we are living in this weird dystopia.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2023

Between 67 and 100 percent of Indigenous languages in those three countries will disappear within three generations, according to a 2019 analysis of 200 years of global language loss by researcher Gary Simons. This is the one area left in the federal government, unfortunately, that is very much bipartisan,” she said of Native American issues.

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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Civil War: A Very Short Introduction (New York, 2020); Henry Louis Gates, Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow (New York, 2019); James W. History,” Journal of American History 95:2 (September 2008); Michael L. Cook, “Seeing the Visual in U.S. Stephanie M. Reading: Maurie D.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

In Norfolk, Virginia, the juniors and seniors enrolled in an African American history class taught by Ed Allison were working on their capstone projects, using nearby Fort Monroe, the site where the first enslaved Africans landed in 1619, as a jumping off point to explore their family history.

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Strange Maps

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

For most of American history, Wyoming was a not a destination in itself, but just so much more ground to cover on the long trek to more promising lands further west. One million euros to prove the conspiracy In 2019, the city of Bielefeld promised one million euros for anyone who could prove that it did not exist.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 31, 2021

And they lived through perhaps the most divisive presidential battle in American history, culminating in rioters storming the Capitol in Washington, D.C. They watched as the police murder of an unarmed Black man reignited the country’s fight for racial and social justice. Mana struggled with health issues of her own.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2023

The women’s college received 13,614 applications for the fall of 2022 – a 48 percent increase over the 9,179 who applied in fall of 2019, according to a spokesperson for the college. Enrollment over the same time period rose by about 12 percent, and the number of students who are majoring in women’s studies has remained steady.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2021

We must insist that the American History we teach in our schools includes discussions of the systemic racism that has defined and divided our country. I am a primary resource when it comes to American History and civil rights, particularly in education. The National Education Association presented me with the Carter G.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2020

Second, educators must familiarize themselves with the history and purpose of HBCUs. For much of American history, it was against the law to teach blacks how to read and write. They are unapologetically black spaces, exposing and expressing black history and culture to affirm black identity and excellence as a norm.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 12, 2023

At Teaching American History, we know teachers are hungry for resources that help their students understand the nuances of American civic behavior. Below, we reprint an edited version of our 2019 interview with Professor Masugi. Download your free copy here.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

DeVos attempted to set aside $400 million for charter schools and private-school vouchers in the 2018 federal budget , and in 2019 , she promoted a $5 billion tax credit program for private-school vouchers, but neither proposal cleared Congress. Nirvi Shah Teaching about U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

As a senator, Harris supported the Equality Act in 2019, which would have expanded protections in the Civil Rights Act on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in education, among other areas. The shortfall is “immoral,” Harris told members of the National Education Association at a 2019 candidates forum.

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