Preamble: To study history is to develop a disciplined way of making sense of the world by inquiring about the past. The History Department has identified a common set of learning objectives that are ...

NMAH copy purchased with funds from the NMAH Endowment. What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating question of Sarah Maza's Thinking About History, a ...

In recent years, how Americans discuss, memorialize, and teach our nation’s history has become a new battlefront for the culture wars in the United States. School board meetings across the nation have ...

I first started listening to the podcast “You’re Wrong About,” a cultural-history show hosted by the journalists Michael Hobbes and Sarah Marshall, because of a T-shirt. Late last year, while lazily ...

Americans are increasingly polarized and public distrust in government is at record levels. What if the inability of Americans to agree on our shared history—and the right way to teach it—is a cause ...

Americans are fighting about history. This past week, thousands of students from across the country came together to celebrate it. Kaleb Ice playing Elton John in a National History Day performance ...

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You know the saying, “the truth is stranger than fiction?” A lot of the time, that really is the case — and these spooky podcasts about history prove it. There are plenty of events in our own pasts, ...

The federal Education Minister, Alan Tudge, has announced a major edit of the draft history curriculum by the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) as part of an effort to ...

Can you tell fact from fiction online? In a digital world, few questions are more important or more challenging. As an education researcher and former high school history teacher, I know that there’s ...

I begin by asking a simple question, why can’t we get Black history education right? The desire to write and learn Black history has been a priority by Black communities for over a century. In the ...