Years before Tore Olsson became an associate professor of U.S. history and director of graduate studies at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, he was a teenager using video games as a gateway to ...

I wanted a history class that focused more on my history. History is viewed as important because it’s necessary to know where you came from, and this African American history class is teaching me more ...

To the editor: The only thing I would add to Nicholas Goldberg’s column about the need for students to learn U.S. history is a focus on recent history. It’s my understanding that many of today’s high ...

So much about the world is broken right now. The planet is boiling, inequality is skyrocketing, and government gridlock is more darkly comic than ever. The Hollywood industrial complex regurgitates ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — High school senior Kahlila Bandele is used to courses that don’t address the African American experience. Then there’s her 9 a.m. class. This week, it spanned topics from ...

Author Gabe Henry discussed why he thinks that spelling in the English language is "absurd." He spoke at the Planet Word Museum in Washington, D.C.

Your first couple years in college, you take pretty standard stuff. English 1, English 2, American History 1: Pre-World War I, American History 2: Post-World War I, Economics 1, etc. But once you ...