more than 400 congregations have pledged to teach the lessons, the advocacy group says. Florida has required public schools to teach African American history for the past 30 years, but many ...
Marvin Dunn is silhouetted in front of a mural at the Lyric Theater Sunday, Feb. 25, 2024, in Miami. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier, file) Renee O’Connor stands in one of the classrooms where she teaches ...
But, as Barak argues, people experience heat not as remotely sensed data points but in rivulets of sweat. In this provocative book, both witty and profoundly serious, he provides a human-scale history ...
It is not important whether one sees history as linear or cyclical; what is important is what lessons we can extract ... When the nascent US superpower inherited the legacy of the defunct European ...
“The lesson was in a US History class and involved a discussion surrounding cotton, the invention of the cotton gin and enslavement. As part of the discussion, the teacher passed around a piece ...
at the American University there, in 1982-3; he was a PLO adviser in the Madrid talks in the early 1990s; his uncle was mayor of Jerusalem in the 1930s, etc. Some of it is straightforward history.
The movies mentioned here are a strong starting point for anyone who wants a unique course in American history, but a deeper dive into American cinema will paint a larger, stranger, and more ...
What might we learn by examining & debating the lessons of over 2,500 years of history in which human beings have sought to avert, instigate, wage, win & end wars? The course is designed with one ...