Lakewood High School sophomores Ainsley Bronson and Alex Hodson are completing a United States wall map in social studies teacher Tim Rinehart’s classroom. (Photo courtesy of Lakewood City Schools) ...

Sixty high schools are piloting a new AP African American Studies class. ... While the Reconstruction era after the Civil War is often skimmed over in high school U.S. history classes, ...

In New Paltz High School, history teacher Albert Cook, 47, asks his class to open to a fresh page in their notebooks and write out a single word: the N-word. They can write it however they want.

Black history is treated as something separate and apart from American history, argues high school student-activist ... my freshman U.S. history class only briefly touched on the lives of Black ...

In this first effort to integrate MBH into the classroom, we have selected the pieces that most clearly fit into broadly defined topics for a high school or college American history survey course.

When I graduated from high school, I was ignorant about the racial history of my native South. I embarrassed myself in my first college class in American history.

One of those places is the African American Research Cultural Research Library in Ft. Lauderdale where the students say their schools are failing them when it comes to Black history. Mahalia ...

At Franklin High School in Reisterstown, Maryland, Lesh champions historical inquiry and the way historians themselves study history. This approach de-emphasizes memorizing mountains of data.

Community leaders occasionally join the online high school class as guest lecturers, highlighting Seattle’s central role in Filipino American history, from serving as a notable port of entry for ...