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July 25, 2017

“Holden Caulfield is a typical teenager”?

When this teacher’s classroom of white students identified The Catcher in the Rye protagonist Holden Caulfield as a “typical teenager,” she knew she needed to broaden their idea of what “typical” teenage problems look like.

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Class

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July 19, 2016

Magical Cloaks and Targets?

In the wake of more shootings, this white educator and father contemplates how he can undermine a system that makes his sons and him safer than their African-American counterparts.

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Issue 2, Spring 2022

Going Beyond the Textbook

Illustration of students emerging from under a giant book.

Teachers are using the textbook—and going beyond it—to change history education from the ground up.

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Issue 27, Spring 2005

A Dream We All Can Share

How parents can teach kids that all history counts.

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"Color Guards" With No Flags

Carl Carter recalls two snapshots from 1960s Birmingham, Alabama, that changed him in ways he “wouldn't understand for years."

Carl Carter

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6-8

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Rights & Activism

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History

November 18, 2014

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November 12, 2020

Madam Vice President Is a Woman of Color

The election of a biracial, Black, South Asian daughter of immigrant parents to the vice presidency is a historic moment for all of us—especially girls and women of color.

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Immigration Gender & Sexual Identity

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July 6, 2022

Don’t Stop Talking About Gun Violence

A child's feet with sneakers on them stand in front of words that include protect, students, mass shooting, cries, brutality, activism, walkout and more etched in chalk on the ground.

We must push for more restrictive gun laws to change the cycle of mass shootings, collective outrage and minimal action.

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Rights & Activism

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The Color of Law: Developing the White Middle Class

This lesson is the third and final lesson of the series The Color of Law: The Role of Government in Shaping Racial Inequity. In this lesson, students examine policies that supported and cultivated the creation of the white middle class and the practices that excluded black and nonwhite people from economic development.

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9-12

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Class Rights & Activism

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Reading & Language Arts

Social Studies

History

Economics

October 10, 2019

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May 10, 2019

What We’re Reading This Week: May 10, 2019

A weekly sampling of articles, blogs and reports relevant to TT educators.

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Issue 62, Summer 2019

Toolkit for “Lies My Bookshelf Told Me: Slavery in Children’s Literature”

The word "Slavery" being painted over by white paint and white painter.

Our online Teaching Hard History Text Library includes a wealth of primary and secondary source documents about slavery to share with students of all ages.

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