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

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.

The second volume of the historian’s account of the American Revolution is told with tremendous verve and detail.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

During a demonstration of the features of the “American History: Reconstruction to the Present” textbook, a Ramona Unified School District committee debated strategies of handling perceived ...