Superlative Social Studies Instruction
Helping Educators Teach Civic Competence and Critical Thinking
Leonid Sirota posed an interesting question in a recent blog post The Good Government Trilemma–can a democratically elected government be held accountable by the voters once it becomes sufficiently large in size? In his...
The President of the American Historical Association (AHA) James Sweet found himself in hot water recently for his monthly remarks. In his August column, Sweet challenged his discipline’s recent use of history to buttress...
This past term revealed just how much the Supreme Court is swinging rightward. Whether that turn is a good thing or not is up for debate. What is intriguing is how much the Court...
Today, the Supreme Court announced its decision in Kennedy v. Bremerton School District. While appearing to be relatively straightforward, the case had something of a complex history. Kennedy had previously led voluntary prayers with...
Sometimes a book becomes more timely due to circumstance. And that’s exactly what happened with Fox News Correspondent Bret Baier’s new book, To Rescue the Republic: Ulysses S. Grant, the Fragile Union, and the Crisis...
As I’m sure you are aware by now, a draft opinion of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (the Mississippi abortion case) was leaked ahead of the Supreme Court’s official decision. The opinion, authored...
Since the 1619 Project was released by the New York Times in August of 2019, it has generated a lot of publicity, both positive and negative. Its lead writer, Nikole Hannah-Jones won the Pulitzer for commentary. Hundreds of schools...
Seth Radwell’s new book, American Schism, is an attempt to explain the current political gridlock in America by looking back at the history of American politics and the principles that undergird it. Currently, political discourse...
The jury returned a not guilty verdict yesterday in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial. Rittenhouse was accused of murder after he took a loaded AR-15 rifle into an area of Kenosha, WI in August of...
Many of us have assigned Ibram X. Kendi’s Stamped and How to be an Antiracist, or Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give (THUG) in an attempt to diversify the curriculum. Such works are derived from or contain elements of...
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