These are some of the most insightful history books to add to your reading list. "Hands up all who know when Tsarist Russia ...

There, I reviewed American history textbooks from the 1950s and 1960s. Their racism in depicting African-Americans, Chinese immigrants and Mexican-Americans was overt, ...

Mexican-American history textbook already being sold, despite controversy Company's CEO says tome isn't meant to malign Hispanic history By Olivia P. Tallet , Reporter, Houston Chronicle Updated ...

The Right-Wing Textbooks Shaping What Many Americans Know About History. ... The history content of Abeka textbooks was—and remains—dramatically distinct from mainstream books.

While many learned about the American Revolution as beginning in the Northeast, some may not know Florida's role in the ...

If you have opened the social media platform X today, chances are you were bombarded with a barrage of memes on Soham Parekh.

Editor’s note: Lynda Lin Grigsby is a journalist and editor who has written for a number of national news outlets. She is a former editor of the Pacific Citizen, a national Asian American ...

As Stern explains in his powerful new history, it was this same brooding that, in the 1930s and ’40s, helped shape the legal thinking of the future U.S. Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall ...

Smithsonian's picks for the best history books of 2024 include The Barn, Eden Undone and The Wide Wide Sea. Illustration by Emily Lankiewicz. As the United States approaches the 250th anniversary ...

In Teaching White Supremacy: America’s Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity, out Sept. 27, Harvard University researcher Donald Yacovone analyzed 220 history textbooks from ...

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 ...