Jonathan Zimmerman

For as long as universities have existed, academics have struggled to impart their knowledge to students. The failing is fixable—if Washington demands it.

Some essential lessons from an earlier culture war.

The history of education battles — from fights over evolution to critical race theory — shows why the country’s divisions are growing sharper.

But the evidence never backed it up before, and it doesn’t support such claims today either.

More diverse regular history classes are the key to a historically literate population.

Another news cycle, another media mogul stirring up electoral buzz.

How Miss Millie taught the Civil War.

The modern historical profession's purpose has changed drastically in the past century.

Snobbish elitism will hurt their cause.

Until the 1940s, Jews in America were considered a separate race. Their journey to whiteness has important lessons.

Unlike Nixon's famous "silent majority," Trump's backers are loud - and growing in volume

How history textbooks reinforced narratives of racism, and the fight to change those books from the 1940s to the present.