Category: Education
The Roots of the Attack on the Teaching of Black History Date Back to the End of Reconstruction
The Washington Post has an article today on the similarities between today’s attack on the teaching of Black history and the suppression of the Black…
Florida Bans African American Studies AP Course from Its Public Schools
The State of Florida has barred the teaching of the new Advanced Placement African American studies course in the state’s public schools. According to the…
University of South Carolina Gets New Historical Marker on the College & Reconstruction
At the start of the Martin Luther King Day weekend, the University of South Carolina celebrated its brief period of racial integration during Reconstruction with…
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…