Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With the new school year underway, what’s being taught in K-12 history classes is still a hot-button political issue. In this ...

In 1777, Vermont became the first colony to abolish slavery, and the state generally prides itself on this history. But as I have learned from preparing teachers there to teach Black history, that ...

Next week the world’s largest history organization is hosting a congressional briefing in Washington to share its findings from a two-year study that looked at, among other areas, the teaching methods ...

Today’s post is the second in a series offering suggestions to educators trying to teach during our chaotic times. Shannon Carey teaches history in a public high school in Oakland, Calif.: It is the ...

What Nora Green, a junior at Charleston County School of the Arts, has found most interesting about what she has learned in her U.S. history class is how anti-Black prejudice transforms over time.

Ed Allison, standing outside Granby High School in Norfolk, Virginia, helped create the curriculum for the state’s African American history elective. He will be teaching Advanced Placement African ...