AP African American Studies
The kerfuffle over the new AP African American Studies course, engendered by critical comments by Florida governor Ron DeSantis, has thankfully come to a swift conclusion. Last week, the College Board announced it had...
Author: Derek Regensburger
Julian Zelizer on Mistakes Historians Make
Princeton history professor Julian Zelizer has a fascinating article in The Atlantic today about mistakes historians make when appearing as news analysts. Zelizer’s position is that there are five common stock phrases historians misuse...
Comments to Proposed Colorado Social Studies Standards
Colorado has proposed some pretty significant changes to the social studies standards for K-12 education. I’ve decided to post my comments here as a way to draw attention to what I believe are some...
Book Review of Charles Murray’s Facing Reality
Charles Murray has released a new book, Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America, some 27 years after the release of his controversial work, The Bell Curve. Murray has been lauded in conservative circles (and reviled...
Book Review of How Rights Went Wrong
How Rights Went Wrong is a new book by Columbia law professor, Jamal Greene. It is a look at how the Supreme Court has approached governmental regulation of personal rights. Greene’s central thesis is that the...
Supreme Court Refuses to Stay New Texas Abortion Law
The Supreme Court on Wednesday night refused to issue a preliminary injunction staying the new Texas abortion law, SB 8, that prohibits most abortions after the first six weeks of pregnancy where a fetal...
Negotiating Controversial Issues in the Classroom
Many of us would like to discuss controversial topics in the classroom. Social studies after all is full of issues that often create heated debate between two very polarized sides of the aisle. The...
How to Use the “1619 Project” in Your History Class
When the New York Times published the “1619 Project” (a series of essays and artistic works on slavery and its impact) in August of 2019, few could have anticipated the political firestorm it touched...
What is the Controversy over CRT and Why is it Important to You as a Social Studies Educator?
Unless you’ve been living under a rock (or been in a self-imposed COVID lockdown for the past year-and-a-half), you have most assuredly heard the term Critical Race Theory, or CRT for short, being bandied...