Tag: History (Academic Subject)

For Republican Governors, Civics Is the Latest Education Battleground

Virginia, Florida and South Dakota have new standards that focus on patriotism, Christianity and anti-communism. But debating current events? That’s discouraged.

For Republican Governors, Civics Is the Latest Education Battleground

Virginia, Florida and South Dakota have new standards that focus on patriotism, Christianity and anti-communism. But debating current events? That’s discouraged.

Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Who Looked at History From the Bottom Up, Dies at 94

He led a movement that rejected historiography’s traditional emphasis on great events and leaders in favor of mining the “mental universe” of peasants, merchants and clergymen.

Jane Garrett, Book Editor With a Prizewinning Touch, Dies at 88

History books she shepherded over 44 years at Alfred A. Knopf won a raft of Pulitzers — seven in all — as well as Bancrofts, though one set off a furious academic debate.