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Donald Yacovone

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Teaching White Supremacy: U.S. History Textbooks and the Influence of Historians

The assumptions of white priority and white domination suffuse every chapter and every theme of the thousands of textbooks that have blanketed the schools of our country.

by Donald Yacovone via Medium on March 6, 2018

Teaching White Supremacy: America's Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity

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The Complicity of the Textbooks

A new book traces how the writing of American history, from Reconstruction on, has falsified and illuminated our racial past.

by Eric Foner via New York Review of Books on September 5, 2022

Light Under a Bushel: A Q&A with Eric Foner

“It’s important to study history if you want to be an intelligent citizen in a democracy.”

by Eric Foner, Nawal Arjini via New York Review of Books on September 17, 2022

How U.S. History Is Taught Has Always Been Political

Hearing about backlash to what kids are learning in U.S. History classrooms? It could have been last week—or 150 years ago.

by Olivia B. Waxman via TIME on September 17, 2020

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