Education at the Schomburg: Challenging American Inequality: Historical Literacy Matters

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?

Schomburg Education and Teachers College’s Center on History and Education present
A History Education Roundtable

Challenging American Inequality: Historical Literacy Matters
Tuesday, March 24, 2015 from 3:00-5:00pm

Remarks:
Thomas James
Provost and Dean of Teachers College and Acting Director of the Center on History and Education

Panelists:
Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library; Prithi Kanakamedala, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Bronx Community College; Mae Ngai, Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History, Columbia University; and Tim Bailey, Director of Education, The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Moderator:
Yohuru R. Williams
Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of History, Fairfield University

Hosts:
Bette Weneck,  Associate Director of Teachers College’s Center on History and Education
Deirdre Hollman, Schomburg Center’s Director of Education and Exhibitions

Location:
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Langston Hughes Auditorium
515 Malcolm X Blvd at 135th Street in Harlem, NYC
Directions: www.schomburgcenter.org

Free! Register here.

The Center on History and Education is supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and a gift from Teachers College Trustee, Sue Ann Weinberg.