Associate Professor of History Debjani Bhattacharyya, PhD, has overcome the challenges of social distancing in her usually hands-on course Rivers in History, using ingenuity and advanced technology.

The course, taught by Dr. Alicia Odewale, will highlight the long legacy of Black towns, Black country western music and Black cowboys, providing an important framework for understanding the roots ...

Amelia F. Barnum ’28, a Crimson Editorial Editor, is a Social Studies concentrator in Winthrop House. Until 2006, the History Department offered a European history survey course that was required for ...

How do you teach an inclusive U.S. history course? What does such a course look like? And how do teachers put one together when facing legal restrictions on how they can discuss race and gender in ...

Students who walked into Stacy Hill’s classroom at Northeast High School one day last month for their African American history course saw this name on the white board: Amir Locke. Locke was shot to ...

TAMPA — In a move that rankled academics across the country last month, Florida officials removed sociology as one of the core courses students can choose to complete their studies at public colleges ...

Students at the University of Tennessee are already diving deep into the Grand Theft Auto franchise — not for cheat codes, but for college credit. A new United States history course at the University ...

Williamson County Schools has proposed offering a new African American history course for the 2021-2022 school year. The state-approved course would be offered at Ravenwood, Centennial and Page high ...

RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia Governor Ralph Northam announced the launch of a new African American history course that will be available to 16 Commonwealth school divisions. “Black history is American ...

Virginia’s education department proposed dozens of revisions to an elective course on African American history, striking some references to white supremacy and systemic racism among other changes, ...