Charlie English delves into the CIA's attempts to combat communism via literature including '1984' in a book that reminds, in ...

That’s a striking change, but modest compared to what’s happened among teen-agers: the National Center for Education ...

When I was young, I never liked history in school. It was always a dry topic, capped off by having to remember a string of names and dates of things that I wasn’t interested in anyway.

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Why being boring is the newest status symbol Embracing your inner bore has never been more fashionable. Katie Rosseinsky explores how being a little bit dull became something to boast about ...

Binge-reading bestsellers in bars? Fusing food with fiction? Silently skimming sci-fi over Zoom? These aren’t your typical book clubs, but they're just the plot twist modern readers are looking ...

Rocky Run seventh-grade history teacher Maggie Brown stacked the desks in her classroom on top of each other. She then covered the with brown paper to simulate a sod house and had her students sit ...

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Education Close your textbook and go outside: How ’place-based learning’ connects lessons to real life By Elizabeth Miller (OPB) April 8, 2024 6 a.m.

In December, the press – this magazine included – was full of recommendations of the best history books published during the preceding year. Simultaneously, I was asking candidates for undergraduate ...

Do you recall Mr. Lorensax from “Ferris Bueller's Day Off”? Anyone? Bueller? With his monotone voice and lack of enthusiasm, he could convince anyone that history is incredibly boring. Unfortunately, ...