TEXAS, USA — This story was first published in The Texas Tribune and can be viewed here. A new Texas curriculum seeks to captivate first-grade students with a lesson on Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s ...

The social studies rewrite has become a thorny political process, with officials clashing over the portrayal of slavery, civil rights, Indigenous people and the Alamo.

In a box of old photos and letters, I kept a small card about Juneteenth that I found in high school. Not sure where I got the card, but it was my only proof that I learned something about the day’s ...

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