A United Kingdom?: Teaching Against Imperialism in the UK
Ignorance can be counteracted within schools and the education system by teaching the truth of Britain and Empire. The people of tomorrow aren’t just white British, but are multicultural.
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Review: The Early Modern World, Chapters 5 to 7 of Jackson Spielvogel’s World History: Modern Times
Chapters 5-7 provided numerous opportunities for demonstrating and examining connections between the “West and the rest.” These opportunities, had they taken them, would have allowed this book to be an actual world history.
Back to School: The Activist History Review Reviews High School History Textbooks
As part of our special issue on “education” this month, we’re excited to feature a series of reviews of high school history textbook units by professional historians.
The Barton Lies: A Roundtable on the Career of Fundamentalists’ Favorite “Historian”
Beck and Barton’s plans raise a number of questions for activist historians and professional historians more generally.
Review: Creating a Nation, Unit 1 of Joyce Appleby’s The American Vision
This unit does not ask questions of the materials it includes that would provide a greater voice for disenfranchised communities like women, Native Americans, and African Americans.
The Other Activist History: An Editorial Response to Glenn Beck and David Barton’s “History Training Camp”
Our hope, as we move forward, is that our work might inspire others to support our own version of activist history at Barton’s expense—one grounded in fearlessly examining history and its implications for the present.
Review: The Crown and Decolonization
It is important to recognize The Crown is not about decolonization directly; it is fundamentally a drama about internal palace tensions and the Queen’s relationship with her people and government.
Call for Contributors for September 2017 Issue on “Poverty”
The Activist History Review invites proposals for articles that address the theme of “poverty” to be featured in the September issue.
Time for a Revolution
Revolutions afford a peculiar opportunity for a discussion of how historians think about time more generally. Does a revolution always represent a fundamental rupture within historical time?
“In Our Own Interests”: The Destructive History of Nationalism in the Habsburg Monarchy and What It Means for White Nationalists
The triumphalism in [nationalist] narrative[s] ignores the destructive nature of nationalism while also legitimizing it as a real and natural occurrence, despite the bulk of nationalist theory showing that it is far from that. By relying on this narrative, we may fail to see the danger present in new nationalist movements such as the recently emergent White Nationalism.
