U.S. history knowledge is declining in schools. An MPS teacher tried changing that by bringing America 250 lessons to her ...

For years, bands of educators have been trying to free history instruction from the mire of memorization and propel it instead with the kinds of inquiry that drive historians themselves. Now, the ...

LaGarrett King is the director of the Center for K-12 Black History and Racial Literacy Education at the Univesity at Buffalo. (Photo courtesy St. Thomas University) This is your first of three free ...

S+B: Historians have, well, historically been content to leave current events to journalists. But you spend a lot of time writing, teaching, and thinking about what is happening now. How do you ...

The Munich Agreement is one of the most criticized diplomatic agreements in history. In 1938, Adolf Hitler turned his sights on absorbing the Sudetenland, the part of Czechoslovakia dominated by ...

Some Chicago teenagers got a history lesson Thursday from the none other than the great-granddaughter of Ida B. Wells, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This is a photo of Dr. LaGarrett King. The culture war in education that began in response to the protests that followed the ...