Schomburg Center Audio/Video Resources: Challenging American Inequality: Historical Literacy Matters

March 24, 2015

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Why have we traditionally looked to historical knowledge as a building block of democratic participation and a central component of what it means to be an American? How can history pedagogy be framed as a challenge to social and economic inequality? How do we reach young learners to appreciate the study of history as integral to their quality of life and the well-being of American democracy?