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Despite a range of opposition, educators are committed to teaching honest history in their classrooms—and students are eager to learn.

Tulsa teacher Akela Leach helps her school district implement new lessons about their city’s painful history.

Every widespread meme has an origin story. But understanding both the context and the consequences can teach us something about ourselves.

This piece is to accompany the Teaching Tolerance article "Getting the Civil War Right." Some historians have called the period of Reconstruction that followed the Civil War the "second American Revolution" and the 13th

Freelance writer Ken Olsen gives tips for teaching Lewis and Clark from a Native American perspective.

Our food supply depends on immigrant labor. Seven new Teaching Tolerance lessons bring this important message into the classroom.

Today, I opened my classroom door to a surprise. Diego was back! He put his arm around my shoulder and said, “It’s good to see you again.” One of the best things about being a teacher is when students come back. Some of those homecomings are more significant than others. Just a 10th-grader, Diego wasn’t back to tell me about his college life, his career or kids. He was back to tell me that in juvenile hall, where he’d spent the last three weeks, he had found out he loved to write.