The History Wars

Why The Stakes Are So High

Frederick Douglass…W.E.B. du Bois….James Baldwin (pictures in public domain)

When I taught history in the 1980s, '90s, and 2000s, I remember various conflicts over curriculum that became very heated. There were the “reading wars” of the 70s and 80s which became politicized along with the more recent “math wars,” mostly due to the Common Core standards.

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