Resilience, not ease, has been the defining feature of our national story. As America prepares to celebrate its 250th ...

U.S. history knowledge is declining in schools. An MPS teacher tried changing that by bringing America 250 lessons to her ...

S+B: Historians have, well, historically been content to leave current events to journalists. But you spend a lot of time writing, teaching, and thinking about what is happening now. How do you ...

For years, bands of educators have been trying to free history instruction from the mire of memorization and propel it instead with the kinds of inquiry that drive historians themselves. Now, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This is a photo of Dr. LaGarrett King. The culture war in education that began in response to the protests that followed the ...

The resurgence of inflation in the United States has roused political concern and stirred the Federal Reserve to pivot from patience to seemingly urgent action. Higher inflation has also led to ...

No one can deny that Rosa Parks played a pivotal role in the Civil Rights movement by refusing to move to the back of the bus for being African American, but one can deny she was sitting in the whites ...

LaGarrett King is the director of the Center for K-12 Black History and Racial Literacy Education at the Univesity at Buffalo. (Photo courtesy St. Thomas University) This is your first of three free ...