All posts tagged "History"

A red state sparked backlash after announcing that it will offer an alternative version of advanced history classes meant to combat the "woke."

Historian Kevin Kruse warned on Bluesky that Sunshine State students could have "to suffer through the Florida Man version" of Advanced Placement U.S. History, and called out a curriculum that frames Florida as always having been Christian, anti-slavery and on the right side of history.

The Tallahassee Democrat reported on Tuesday that Florida will start offering the alternative course as a pilot program in the fall. The state-developed course will offer credit at Florida colleges and universities to compete with the AP course, which offers credit at colleges and universities across the country....

Confederate monuments have come down in Orlando, Tampa and most recently Jacksonville as part of a nationwide reckoning with public memorials that commemorate the Confederacy. But if a bill becomes law, local leaders could be fined and even booted from office if they remove those monuments. The modern usage of Confederate symbols is controversial as many associate such symbols with racism, slavery, and white supremacy, as the American Civil War was fought between the United States of America and the Confederate States of America, 11 southern states that left the Union in 1860 and 1861 in a con......

A Soviet war memorial in Berlin has been daubed with more than 20 swastikas. The swastikas on the monument in the Alt-Hohenschönhausen district in the east of the city were about 20 by 20 centimetres in size and spread over an area of seven by two metres, a police spokeswoman said on Monday. A passerby noticed the Nazi symbols on Sunday evening and called the police. The emergency services covered over the graffiti....

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Davidson College’s central academic building will continue to bear the name of a man who enslaved people, school officials say. The college decided to keep the Chambers building, named after Maxwell Chambers, after a lengthy examination into how the school could both acknowledge its ties to slavery while also preserving a portion of its own history. Doug Hicks, Davidson College president, said Tuesday that the school’s Board of Trustees backed a recommendation from the school’s Committee on Acknowledgment and Naming to keep the name despite apparent complications and conflict......

King Charles III didn’t receive the warmest of welcomes when he arrived in Kenya for a four-day state visit on Monday. Calls are growing for the British monarch to make a heartfelt apology for colonial era abuses as he and Queen Camilla tour the east African country. The tour is the first to a Commonwealth country since he succeeded his late mother, Queen Elizabeth, who died in September after a seven-decade reign. Buckingham Palace announced that King Charles would “acknowledge the more painful aspects of the U.K. and Kenya’s shared history,” which includes the bloody Mau Mau rebellion of the......

Gray Horse (United States) (AFP) - Martin Scorsese's new film "Killers of the Flower Moon" recounts how the Osage nation of Native Americans gained significant oil wealth in the early 20th century and the murderous plot by outsiders to seize it. Ahead of the movie's US release, AFP looks at the real-life story behind the film, which was adapted from US author David Grann's 2017 book of the same name. Who are the Osage?The Osage, a Native American nation which grew out of the Ohio and Mississippi River valleys, was forcibly relocated by the US government in the late 19th century westward to a r......