History is the story of all of us, and our story is most effectively taught as a coherent story that unfolds across time. History and social studies classes seem to be only about stuffy dates and times that are dusted off every year for a once-over and then put back on the shelf, never to be seen again. Students don’t see the relevance of history, and more importantly, don’t see themselves or their role in the story of the past.
Trans Women at Bunker Hill: The DAR’s Identity Crisis
It is more than a little ironic that in the middle of the Celebration of 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, one of the nation’s oldest historical organizations, the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), voted down an effort to ban men who say they are women from membership. If men live in a...