One state senator threatened to pull funding over the selection of Rebecca Mnookin, who says she supports research on critical race theory and “lots of other ideas, too.”
Meg Kinnard, AP
A building that honors Strom Thurmond, the late segregationist U.S. senator, is among those that advocates would like to rename.
A commission at the University of South Carolina recommended on Friday that the names of 11 people who were slaveowners, fought for the Confederacy, or held racist beliefs be removed from campus buildings, including that of the late U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond, who supported segregation for much of his political career.
To many on the flagship campus, in Columbia, it felt like a victory at first. But there’s no political path forward to actually removing Thurmond’s name or any others, at least for now.
Commentary: How history textbooks will deal with the US Capitol attack
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Share The Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol represented an event unlike any other in American history. But how will it be portrayed in history textbooks used in America’s K-12 schools and colleges? Here, three scholars of American history weigh in.
How soon can we expect this attack to be included in history textbooks?
Wendy L. Wall, professor of 20th-century American history at Binghamton University
The unprecedented nature of this attack, combined with the widespread sense that it marks a historical turning point, ensures that it will appear in textbooks as soon as publishing turnaround times allow.
How Will History Textbooks Deal with the US Capitol Attack?
The Sept. 11, 2001 attacks appeared in texts published in 2003, although textbook writers were still trying to understand the full ramifications of 9/11 at the time. How will this episode in American history be recorded?
Editor’s note: The Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol represented an event unlike any other in American history. But how will it be portrayed in history textbooks used in America’s K-12 schools and colleges? Here, three scholars of American history weigh in.
How soon can we expect this attack to be included in history textbooks?
Editor’s note: The Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol represented an event unlike any other in American history. But how will it be portrayed in history textbooks used in America’s K-12 schools and colleges? Here, three scholars of American history weigh in.
How soon can we expect this attack to be included in history textbooks? Wendy L. Wall, professor of 20th-century American history at Binghamton University. Binghamton University
Wendy L. Wall, professor of 20th-century American history at Binghamton University
The unprecedented nature of this attack, combined with the widespread sense that it marks a historical turning point, ensures that it will appear in textbooks as soon as publishing turnaround times allow.