The negatives of American history were part of history lessons 70 years ago. What has changed is the effort to distort that truth by the media. The great-great grandparents of today's students arrived ...

Publishers are plain scared. No that’s unfair. They are terrified. In our bizarre age of disrupters and those who prefer to ‘repurpose’ inconvenient truths like history, some readers might think that ...

Sanity seems conspicuously absent from his actions. What mind, driven by a profound disregard for history and human dignity, barges into the world’s sanctuaries—smashes centuries-old monuments, ...

Meet the Teacher night in social studies class came to a sudden halt when the subject of the year’s first lesson came up. Eighth graders, we were told, were starting the fall with a lesson on 9/11. It ...

When we understand what history is, when it began to be considered, how it changed over time, and what truth is, we will realize that history can’t be entirely accurate. History is an attempt to ...

“There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths,” philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche stated in his 1878 book “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits.” Though many take Nietzsche’s ...

Introduction: The question stated -- Part one: The idea (1492-1799). The nature of the past ; The rulers and the ruled ; Of wars and revolutions ; The constitution of a nation -- Part two: The people ...

David Barber is a professor of history at the University of Tennessee at Martin. It is certainly true that under Tennessee law you can teach something that our educational authorities call “Black ...

We are nearing the end of Black History Month and a national fight is raging over public education, with its epicenter in Florida. In a recent piece in CounterPunch Anthony DiMaggio lambasted Florida ...

Sojourner Truth, the African American abolitionist, women's rights advocate and social activist revered to this day for her presentation on racial inequalities, delivered her famous "Ain't I a Woman?" ...