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Democracy Requires Learning and Teaching Accurate and Honest History

How can history help us resist hate in society today and work toward a more inclusive future? Opposition to equality is, unfortunately, not new to the history of the United States. Recognizing the relevance of history to today’s justice movements is crucial for understanding and countering current pushbacks against democratic values. And with the intense efforts to dismantle public education and to erase and alter our country’s history, teaching accurate history — including the hard truths of our nation’s past — is essential. 

  • Teaching Hard History Podcast Series
  • History and the Power of Place
  • Resisting Hate in Education
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Margaret Batchelder, Immigrant Inspector (1903)

Margaret Batchelder writes to President Theodore Roosevelt to tell him how women inspectors welcome immigrants—with smiles and encouragement. Although not allowed to question the immigrants, the women make a difference in the immigrants' first experiences on shore.
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Gwenyth Swain
Grade Level
3-5 6-8
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Immigration Gender & Sexual Identity Rights & Activism
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History
Social Justice Domain
Diversity Justice
July 7, 2014
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Dana McCullough

Dana Compton McCullough is a biology teacher at Evans High School in Evans, Georgia. She has taught middle school science and language arts, 5th grade science, math, and language arts, and various high school science classes for 23 years in Columbia County, Georgia. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Biology from Augusta State University and Master’s Degree in Biology from Georgia Southern University. Her research and teaching interests include teaching science for social justice and Freirean approaches to teaching and learning.
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The Yellow Wallpaper

This short story—an important piece in early American feminist literature—sheds light on 19th century attitudes toward women with physical and mental illness. In this excerpt, the speaker details her bedroom, a place where her husband and doctors come to encourage her to health. Her ailment is vague; the emphasis is on what others—all men—think and say.
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Grade Level
9-12
Topic
Gender & Sexual Identity
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History
Social Justice Domain
Identity Justice
July 7, 2014
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Dr. Henry Louis Gates

Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is an Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and founding director of The Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.
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Mishy Lesser

Mishy Lesser is the learning director for the Coexist Learning Project. She authored the Coexist Teacher’s Guide and devotes herself to teacher education about genocide and othering.
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Margaret Auguste

Auguste is a writer and mother of four who lives in New Jersey. She writes about the cultural experiences of families for anthologies, children’s magazines and academic journals.