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Doing the Work of Teaching Hard History
In many ways, the U.S. has fallen short of its ideals. How can we explain this to students — particularly in the context of discussing slavery? This episode offers practical strategies.
July 21, 2025
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January 2, 2018
Toolkit for "Teaching Hard History"
"Can Words Lead to War?" is an Inquiry Design Model (IDM), one of six sample IDMs that accompany the Teaching Hard History project. This inquiry provides students with an opportunity to explore how words affect public opinion through an examination of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel 'Uncle Tom’s Cabin.'
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Learning Hard History on the Road
Charlottesville residents took to the road this summer to learn how the past can help them construct a more just and peaceful present.
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Advocating for Honest History Education
Parent and caregiver advocacy is crucial as children’s right to inclusive learning and honest history education is being limited in some states and communities. While the media often highlights the vocal efforts of a few politically motivated parents’ groups to censor teaching and to exclude some children and families from representation, we know that most parents and caregivers support fair and inclusive education practices that protect the learning and well-being of all children.
- Advocating for Honest History Education: A Resource for Parents and Caregivers
- Advocating for Teaching Honest History: What Educators Can Do
- Celebrate African and Indigenous Cultures: A Resource for Parents and Caregivers
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Music Reconstructed: Dom Flemons, Black Cowboys and the American West
Installment 2 From ranches to railroads, learn about the often unrecognized role that African Americans played in the range cattle industry, as Pullman porters and in law enforcement. In part two of this special series
March 18, 2022
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Black Unionists Form Coalition: Organization Will Work for McGovern but Will Not Disband After Election, The New York Times (October 3, 1972)
Newspaper article describing Black laborers’ frustration with the mainstream labor movement and the 1972 formation of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists
July 7, 2022
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Teaching Hard History Podcast Series
Host Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Ph.D., brings us the hard history of the United States from slavery through the Jim Crow era and the Civil Rights Movement — with relevance to today’s issues.
January 30, 2018
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Partnering With Museums to Teach Honest History
Looking for support and solidarity in teaching honest history? Partner with a museum.
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Black Visibility Matters: The Inconvenient Truths of Bias and Erasure
Racial stereotypes and myths persist only with our continuous active consent—in the stories we teach and tell, and those we don’t. And the price we pay for this is monumental.