Tag: American Education

  • Kimberly J. ROBINSON – Slavery as a System of Compulsory Ignorance

    Conference: Teaching Race & Slavery in the American Classroom – Gilder Lehrman Center 2022 Annual Conference Concluding roundtable: Why Do We Teach US History? Books recommended: Heather Andrea Williams > Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture); and David Walker’s Appeal *We have…

  • Professor Donald YACOVONE about White Supremacy and History Books

    In an interview given to The Harvard Gazette in September 2020, Professor Yacovone sees “white supremacy” as invented in the North, instead of the South, by a Canadian established in New York City, and as an existing idea even before the birth of the United States, enabling, at first, white Anglo-Saxons, and then Europeans in…

  • Professor Johann N. Neem about Public Education in America

    Conference: Teaching Race and slavery in the American classroom – Gilder Lehrman Center 2022 Annual Conference Panel: History of U.S. Education: What’s Race Got To Do With It? Book recommended: Democracy’s Schools: The Rise of Public Education in America (How Things Worked), Johns Hopkins University Press (August 1, 2017) *The black and white school enrollment…