Our era really is like the Civil War in one key way

Reaching for parallels in the Revolution and abolition, Americans are no longer debating conventional public policy. We are ...
Council on Foreign Relations

How a Treaty With France Helped Secure American Independence

The Continental Congress’s success in negotiating a military alliance with France was pivotal to the colonies’ successful ...

A debate over Black civil rights in Colorado’s final territorial Legislature

A welcome respite from freezing winter temperatures came to the northern Front Range on Sunday, Feb. 6, 1876, reported the ...

Civil group seeks revival of student loan forgiveness lawsuit

The New Civil Liberties Alliance filed an opening brief this week with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, asking ...
All That's Interesting

The Story Of The Famous Photo ‘The Soiling Of Old Glory’ And Boston’s Civil Rights Struggle Over Busing

On April 5, 1976, newspaper photographer Stanley Forman captured a shocking photo of a white demonstrator attacking a Black ...

Civil War scholar and retired Gettysburg College professor Gabor Boritt dies at 86

GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) — History professor Gabor S. Boritt, a Hungarian immigrant to the United States who wrote widely about ...
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The American Civil War explained in 1 minute

Four years of conflict between North and South reshaped the United States forever. In just one minute, this video highlights ...

TCC's last original faculty member retires after nearly six decades of teaching

After 60 years of teaching, professor Larry Story retires, leaving behind a legacy of shaping thousands of students' ...

Dublin teacher, students push for official day for Revolutionary War hero

A teacher and students at Grizzell Middle School are pushing for statewide recognition for Thaddeus Kosciuszko, a Polish ...
KVIA

Texas board of education debates how slavery, Civil Rights are taught in classrooms

Texas’ State Board of Education is moving forward with a major overhaul of the state’s social studies curriculum, reigniting debate over how slavery, race, and civil rights should be taught to ...
KSAT

Texas’ social studies shakeup creates divide over whose histories to teach, and how

Concerned about Texas’ social studies overhaul, Democrats on the State Board of Education used a recent meeting to push for ...
Opinion
CounterPunchOpinion

How Human Ecology Education Defuses the Roots of Terrorism

Terrorist attacks, whether by individuals or groups, are usually followed by attempts to explain the rationale and causes behind them. The core reasons, ...