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By Anthony Cody What impact has Bill Gates had on the world since he launched the most wealthy tax-exempt foundation in the world? We finally have a book that takes this on, from a critical perspective. “The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire” was written by journalist Tim …

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By Paul Horton. The Republican assault on American History begins and ends with distortion. The clear intent of attacks on political correctness, books, and “wokeness” is to limit the free speech of Americans who wish to continue the project of “perfecting” the American experiment through reform. In a …

Supporting the Mexican Dream in Chiapas

By Anthony Cody. I recently returned from a trip to the state of Chiapas in southern Mexico. I went to support a friend, Chris Esponda, who was returning to the town where he was born and lived for the first five years of his life. Chris is a Dreamer, the name given to immigrants who came to the US as young …

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by Paul Horton “Mr. Whorton, we cannot understand a wurd you sayin! You talk waaay tooo fas and you use words that are too big! You talk about places we never heard of! We don’t know nothin about Palestine and Isral. Most of us ain’t been pas Austin! We tired of you go’in on and on! You need to learn how …

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By Paul Horton. History teaching in the United States is at a crossroads. In many states whitewashing and censorship have replaced Black history and the history of resistance and reform movements. What passes for “Western Civilization” in Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, Utah, and Idaho might be closer to “white …

Am I Too Darn Old – For What?

By Anthony Cody. A colleague with whom I worked in facilitating PBL workshops several years ago recently posed a question that comes along for many of us as we move through the inevitable stages of our lives. Do I still have important things to offer other teachers now that I have been out of the classroom for a …

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By Paul Horton While the fundamentalist and evangelical right seems to have monopolized the national discourse surrounding religion and politics today, most Americans seem to have little grasp of a time in American history when religion identified with what could be called social reform. Much of the impulse to …

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By Paul Horton I am finishing up a course that I recently developed on Twentieth Century Latin American History in film that uses several films including “Roma,” “The Official Story,” “Missing,” “EL Norte,” and “Sin Nombre” as a way to create discussions about recent Latin American History. …

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By Paul Horton. While the Renaissance has been presented as a European phenomenon, historians have recently begun to recognize the ways that other parts of the world participated in the intellectual and artistic achievements of those times. How can we challenge students to investigate what was happening beyond …

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By Paul Horton. No question is more puzzling to teachers of World or Global History than, when did the modern world begin? We inherited this question from the hand-me-down versions of Western Civilization and European history that served as the foundations for World History as it gradually evolved away from the …