A complex understanding of the past is vital to understanding what’s happening in the United States today. But many of us often don’t get the historical background we need in school. For example, to ...

The Textbook Problem Nobody Talks About A 2024 report by the American Historical Association found that hard copy and digital textbooks continue to be used in 87% of high school classrooms. That's a ...

Until recently, professional historians and history departments in universities broadly recognised Indian history as divided between the Ancient, Medieval and Modern periods. The more contentious ...

Close-up of opened book on bookshelf on blurred books background. Home library reading books concept. Close up. Selective soft focus. Shallow depth of field. Text copy space. This past summer's uproar ...

An old American History textbook inside Brighton High School in Brighton, Colo., on Feb. 21, 2019. Matthew Staver—The Washington Post via Getty Images The teaching of history has become a flashpoint ...

Despite complaints from China and South Korea, Japan has refused to revise its textbooks. In Israel, dispute continues over how to teach the origin of the state and whether to depict Palestinians as ...

For many, 2023 was a year of momentous change and loss, marked by events that will be chronicled in history books for generations to come. Longstanding tensions in the Middle East erupted when Hamas ...