Category: Education
How a Law Professor Described the Klan to His Students
This year I have offered a look at the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction. I wrote about the Klan’s Constitution, the commercialization of the Klan, and…
Echoes of Reconstruction: When South Carolina’s University Educated Both Black and White
Henry E. Hayne was born free in 1840 to a Free Colored Woman named Mary, and James Hayne, a wealthy white man. He lived in Charleston…
Organization of American Historians Report Says That Administration Is Trying to Distort History
The Organization of American Historians has just issued a report detailing the new Administration’s attempts to distort history to place it in line with Donald…
Interior Department Is Looking At Material From Harpers Ferry That May Be Removed
For the last three weeks I have been looking through the hundreds of files that were leaked in the Department of the Interior covert review…
Playing at War: Identity and Memory in Civil War Video Games Edited By Patrick A. Lewis & James Hill Welborn III
Playing at War: Identity and Memory in Civil War Video Games Edited By Patrick A. Lewis & James Hill Welborn III published by LSU Press…
Forida’s History Education Standards on Slavery Ignore Their Own Expert Reviewers
The Miami Herald has uncovered how Florida has tried to cover up the state’s treatment of Black people. Reporters Ana Ceballos and Alyssa Johnson say…
Ashburn Colored School A Jim Crow Era One Room School House for Blacks-Only
Several years ago while I was driving to Ball’s Bluff Battlefield in Northern Virginia I came upon this sign announcing that I was at the…
Learning for Justice Has Advice for Talking to Children About Slavery
Learning for Justice offers guidance for educating children about slavery. The guide begins by stressing the importance of slavery in creating modern racial dynamics in…
Teen Vogue: The Reconstruction Era Is Not Taught Well
Teen Vogue’s new article The Reconstruction Era Is Not Taught Well in US Schools — Here’s Why That Matters is out this week. Here is an…
Miami Closes Its AP African American Studies Course Right Before Start of Black History Month
Because of Florida’s rejection of the new Advanced Placement African American Studies course three weeks ago, Students in Miami in a pilot version of the…