Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Published in Ebony Magazine, January 1958. To answer these questions, we must look beyond the photographs and focus on a singular figure in the story of the Little Rock Nine, an African American woman named Daisy Bates. Her vision, leadership, and bravery made possible the integration of Central High School in 1957.

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Teaching American History

MAY 28, 2024

Naturalist John Muir, whose popular magazine articles had done much to bring about the 1890 Congressional act creating Yosemite National Park , was unanimously named president of the new organization. Muir in fact had been pressed into service by Robert Underwood Johnson , associate editor of the influential New York magazine The Century.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2021

The crowd cheered at the idea that people like them — mostly white, mostly male — were the true heroes of American history. Most Americans were appalled. High school social studies teachers and scholars of American history don’t deny that the nation’s story is full of mobs, civil unrest and violence.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

He is an editor for Rethinking Schools , the co-editor of Teaching for Black Lives , editor of More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing , and on the leadership team of the Zinn Education Project. Because everyone who studies fascism knows that fascists are always democratically elected to then destroy democracy.

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