Rudi Batzell, Sven Beckert, Andrew Gordon, Gabriel Winant, E. P. Thompson, Politics and History: Writing Social History Fifty Years after "The Making of the English Working Class", Journal of Social ...

English professors find the turn particularly baffling now: a moment when, by most appearances, the appetite for public contemplation of language, identity, historiography, and other longtime ...

The Art and Activism Award went to rapper and poet Jason Chu, whose work amplifies the voices of Asian Americans. As co-curator of the museum's spoken-word exhibition (Be) Spoken, he brought together ...

Update: This story was updated June 4 with information on the timeline for revising the history and social studies frameworks. For history and social studies teachers in California, the Common Core ...

The comments ran the gamut from ‘History curriculum in the United States is heavily whitewashed’ to ‘I could write a book about what a disaster my public school education was--didn’t learn ...

CALN – At Coatesville Area Intermediate High School, students not only study history in American history class, in English class they also try it on, hold it in their hands, share it with eac… ...

In the second part of our podcast series Know Your Place: what happened to class in British politics, we trace the history of class politics over the past century.

If you were an English sailor in the 1500s, you did not want to encounter Grace O’Malley. The Irish “Pirate Queen” was a force to be reckoned with. O’Malley’s family was influential in ...

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