Socialization is not primarily cognitive. We are not persuaded rationally not to pee in the living room; we are not to. We then rationalize and obey this rule even when no authority figure lurks to e...
He is a lover of his country who rebukes and does not excuse its sins. —FREDERICK DOUGLASS
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the...
Native Americans are not and must not be props in a sort of theme park of the past, where we go to have a good time and see exotic cultures. What we have done to the peoples who were living in North A...
The Civil War had been about something other than states’ rights after all. It began as a war to force or prevent the breakup of the United States.
The actual cabin fell into disrepair probably before Lincoln became president. According to research by D. T. Pitcaithley, the new cabin, a hoax built in 1894, was leased to two amusement park owners,...
If you truly want students to take an interest in American history, then stop lying to them.
By 1970, exclusion was so complete that fewer than 500 black families lived in white suburban neighborhoods in the entire Chicago metropolitan area, and most of those were in just five or six suburbs.
The first panel misquotes the preamble and conclusion of the Declaration of Independence, leaving out five words from within its selected excerpts. The architect requested the omissions so the text wo...
Indian history is the antidote to the pious ethnocentrism of American exceptionalism, the notion that European Americans are God’s chosen people. Indian history reveals that the United States and its...
History through red eyes offers our children a deeper understanding than comes from encountering the past as a story of inevitable triumph by the good guys.
Could it be that we don’t want to think badly of Woodrow Wilson? We seem to feel that a person like Helen Keller can be an inspiration only so long as she remains uncontroversial, one-dimensional. We...
Other lakes get similar treatment. According to Michigan markers, whites discovered Lake Michigan, Lake St. Clair, and Lake Superior. Lake Erie gets a more complex marker: Named for the Erie Indians,...
Or guides might initiate a discussion of slave names. Many owners insisted on the right to name their newborn slaves—rather than allowing their parents this pleasure—and then deliberately gave them de...
K-12 teachers. Many work in classrooms for as many as thirty-five hours a week; on top of that they must assign, read, and comment on homework, prepare and grade exams, and develop next week’s lesson...
As a symbol of the new United States, Americans chose the eagle clutching a bundle of arrows. They knew that both the eagle and the arrows were symbols of the Iroquois League. Although one arrow is ea...
For that matter an individual with the money (between $500 and $2,000) and a place to put it can erect a historical marker.
Celebration. Textbook authors present our nation as getting ever better in all areas, from race relations to transportation. The traditional portrayal of Reconstruction as a period of Yankee usurpatio...
Whether one deems our present society wondrous or awful or both, history reveals how we arrived at this point. Understanding our past is central to our ability to understand ourselves and the world ar...
The duty of the historian, Gordon Craig has reminded us, is to restore to the past the options it once had. Craig also pointed out that this is an appropriate way to teach history and to make it memor...
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