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  • What Americans Often Forget

    What Americans Often Forget0

    Our nation’s birthday is approaching once again, along with the celebrations which have accompanied the holiday for so many years. In recent years, however, Independence Day celebrations are often overshadowed by bickering over race or class. With this in mind, I’d like to share a story from my classroom years ago. As a former teacher

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  • What Americans Can Learn From this 1940s Anti-Nazi Film Going Viral (Video)

    What Americans Can Learn From this 1940s Anti-Nazi Film Going Viral (Video)0

    The same day neo-Nazis and antifascists clashed in Charlottesville, Michael Oman-Reagan shared on Twitter a 1940s short-film titled “Don’t Be A Sucker.” The film, produced by the U.S. War Department in 1943, depicts an ornery bigot on a soap box seeking to enlist fellow Americans to his cause while denouncing Catholics, blacks, immigrants, and other groups. Oman-Reagan,

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  • What American Students Learned about the Pilgrims in 1913 vs. Today

    What American Students Learned about the Pilgrims in 1913 vs. Today0

    I was reminded that Thanksgiving is fast approaching when I drove by a local school the other day and saw children leaving the building wearing Pilgrim and Indian hats. This morning I got to thinking: the story of the Pilgrims’ arrival in America is quite a common lesson in the early elementary classroom, but is

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  • What American Education Has in Common with the Dark Ages

    What American Education Has in Common with the Dark Ages0

    The period of the “Dark Ages” is synonymous with cultural deterioration in the West. It is typically applied to those centuries following the fall of the Roman Empire at the end of the 5th century, and is regarded as a time when education dramatically declined. In his classic Education and Culture in the Barbarian West,

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  • What America’s First Student-Led Rebellion Looked Like

    What America’s First Student-Led Rebellion Looked Like0

    In 1834, a 30-year-old seminary student named Theodore Dwight Weld led what is arguably the most successful student rebellion in U.S. history. It took place near Cincinnati at Lane Theological Seminary, where Weld had enrolled the previous year after dedicating his life to a single cause: the abolition of slavery. “Abolition immediate universal is my desire

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  • What Amazon’s Documentary ‘Lorena’ Teaches About American Society

    What Amazon’s Documentary ‘Lorena’ Teaches About American Society0

    Over the past several years, America has been deluged with documentaries, movies, and limited series revisiting the great media frenzies of the 1990s (OJ Simpson, Waco, Tonya Harding, etc). These shows are entertaining, but they also play a more significant role. This is the way Americans are learning history now. I watched the Paramount Networks’

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