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2 months ago | 
citybeat.com | David DeWitt |Timothy Messer-Kruse
If Ohio politics continue on their current trajectory, Republican Gov. Mike DeWine’s final proposed budget might be the last sane, reasonable, compassionate state budget we see proposed from an Ohio governor for quite some time.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
historynewsnetwork.org | Timothy Messer-Kruse
It’s been five years since the New York Times published the 1619 Project, which among other thingsbrought mainstream attention to the protracted debate over the meaning of the American Revolution. Many fans of the 1619 Project have accepted its characterization of the nation’s founders as defenders of slavery. Conservatives, with the support of several well-respected liberal historians, have fired back that patriot leaders hated slavery and did their best to set it on a path to extinction.
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Jul 28, 2024 | 
counterpunch.org | Timothy Messer-Kruse
Since the first laws and executive orders banning ‘divisive concepts’, such as the idea that racism can be systemic, were implemented in 2021, critics charged that they would censor the past and force teachers to avoid uncomfortable but vital issues of history. Many accused the GOP of attempting to impose a sanitized version of America’s […] To read this article, log in here or subscribe here.
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
counterpunch.org | Timothy Messer-Kruse
While much remains unknown about the motives of the would-be assassin in Butler, Pennsylvania, one thing is certain. The man who attempted to kill Donald Trump believed his bullet would change the course of history for the better. Such thinking is common and is promoted in most school books that exhort young people to be better citizens by featuring the stories of national heroes who have changed the world.
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Feb 13, 2024 | 
chronicle.com | Timothy Messer-Kruse |Joan Wong
When news broke this past spring that a survey of student achievement showed that only about one in five high schoolers were “proficient” in basic civics knowledge, pundits, educational specialists, and think tanks predictably warned that democracy was imperiled, and called for more-robust civics education. Such seasonal panic arrives with the regularity of El Niño — and has since civics education was first promoted in the 19th century.
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Jun 20, 2023 | 
commonplace.online | Christian Fritz |C. J. Martin |Timothy Messer-Kruse |Dror Goldberg
* * * *As originally conceived, interposition rested on the idea that state legislatures were essential monitors of the equilibrium of federalism—and a state legislature’s declaration that acts of the federal government were misguided and even unconstitutional was a legitimate form of political resistance. Nullification, however, whether of a Supreme Court’s decision or an act of Congress was never contemplated by the framers as a power enjoyed by any single state.
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Jun 6, 2023 | 
commonplace.online | C. J. Martin |Christian Fritz |Timothy Messer-Kruse |Dror Goldberg
This is the story of how a visit by Frederick Douglass to south-central Massachusetts, its leadup and aftermath, epitomizes the movement’s ability to spread in the region. Save to PDFPrint“A beautiful . . . sun shone upon” the Unitarian meeting house in Uxbridge, Massachusetts on June 25, 1845.
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Jun 1, 2023 | 
historynewsnetwork.org | Timothy Messer-Kruse
SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed 6/1/2023 Roundup tags: culture war, ethnic studies, colleges and universities, interdisciplinarity, Woke by Timothy Messer-Kruse Timothy Messer-Kruse is a professor of ethnic studies at Bowling Green State University.
Conservative attacks on critical race theory and diversity, equity and inclusion programs and anything labeled “woke” have rekindled a national conversation over the proper role of the university in society.
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Jun 1, 2023 | 
insidehighered.com | Timothy Messer-Kruse
You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Slizardi, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia CommonsConservative attacks on critical race theory and diversity, equity and inclusion programs and anything labeled “woke” have rekindled a national conversation over the proper role of the university in society.
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May 24, 2023 | 
sanduskyregister.com | Timothy Messer-Kruse
In 2006, I was hired by the state of Ohio to teach ethnic studies. Among the core concepts of this field that I was expected to impart to my students were the ideas that apparent human differences are more historical and cultural than natural, that what we call “race” is our own invention, and a key story of the U.S.A. is that people of color have had to struggle for the equal rights bestowed upon most white people at the time of the nation’s birth.
