Whitman would have been pleased to see the new American history textbook called The American Yawp -- and not just for its allusive title. As a sometime school teacher and educational reformer, he ...

A new Advanced Placement honors American history textbook has not been distributed to students yet but it’s already stirring controversy for being anti-Trump and suggesting his supporters are ...

Mexican-American educators in Houston are urging people to sign a petition against the textbook, which the state board will vote on this fall.

The Independence Hall Association (IHA) in Philadelphia has released a free digital American history textbook for middle- and high-school students, which will evolve to include interactive displays, ...

Dana Goldstein at her desk with the 43 American history textbooks she obtained for her reporting on differences in what students are taught in conservative and liberal states. Tony Cenicola/The ...

Background info: I'm the department chair for the social studies department at a mid-sized high school in NC.The books we use for our US history classes are terrible. They don't adequately explain ...

TOKYO, Japan -- China and South Korea contend that Japanese history textbooks misrepresent Japan’s wartime activities and colonization of the early 20th century and should be revised. But Japan ...

It used to be that American students learned the history of their country from "official" sources — teachers and textbooks accredited and vetted by experts. But that’s no longer true. Amateur ...

As printed textbooks increasingly gather dust in classroom bookshelves, a new and expansive survey published Sept 19 finds that US social studies teachers are turning to digital sources and ...