Category: Education
Hillsdale College Professor Dismisses Teaching Black History as an Exercise of “Black Privilege”
Until 2016, not many Americans had heard of Hillsdale College. Over the last half-decade the school became famous when it became the leading institution pushing…
Eric Foner in NYRB Reviews New Book on How Race and Reconstruction Have Been Taught
The New York Review of Books has a review by Eric Foner of Teaching White Supremacy: America’s Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National…
New Orleans Lusher Charter School Changes Name to Get Rid of Association With Reconstruction Segregationist
The Lusher Charter School in New Orleans has been renamed the Willow School because the man after whom it was originally named was an architect…
College Board Offers First-Ever AP in African American Studies This Year
For the first time ever, the College Board is working with schools to offer Advanced Placement (AP) courses and tests in African American Studies. Sixty…
The Schofield Normal and Industrial School in Aiken, South Carolina Added to Reconstruction Era National Historic Network
The Schofield Normal and Industrial School in Aiken, South Carolina has been added to the Reconstruction Era National Historic Network. The school was important in…
Reconstruction Brought Harvard Its First Black Student: Why Was He Forgotten?
The Washington Post has a feature on Harvard’s first Black student written by University of South Carolina historian Christian K. Anderson. Here are substantial excerpts:…
Report on Harvard’s Ties to Slavery Released on Two Centuries of Exploitation
Harvard, like Georgetown, Princeton, and Columbia universities, has released a report on the school’s ties to slavery. Here is how the New York Times’ article…
History Teacher on How State History Standards Undermine the Teaching of Reconstruction
Ursula Wolfe-Rocca has an interesting column in the Washington Post today. Wolfe Rocca teaches American history and works with the Zinn Education Project on state…
Report Says Reconstruction History Classes Need to Center Black Communities Redefining Freedom & Joy
One of the more interesting recommendations of the Zinn Education Project report on the teaching of Reconstruction is that teachers should “Foreground the meaning of…
New Report Critical of Lack of Reconstruction Education in Middle and High Schools
The progressive Zinn Education Project has a new report out on the state of Reconstruction education in American schools. Here is a list of the…