Beginning in the 2019-2020 school year, students will be taught that slavery played a "central role" in the war. The state's previous social studies standards listed three causes for the Civil War ...

THIS FALL, Texas schools will teach students that Moses played a bigger role in inspiring the Constitution than slavery did in starting the Civil War. The Lone Star State's new social studies ...

After the deadly 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia’s Albemarle County school system set out to combat ...

In 2018, Texas reviewed its state social studies standards, leading to heated debates over whether states' rights should be considered as a cause of the Civil War—and whether defenders of the ...

In Michigan, curriculum also is decided locally, though the state’s social studies standards for the Civil War and Reconstruction in eighth grade include the instructions: “Explain the reasons ...

It’s official: South Dakota has a new set of social studies standards that educators ... Eighth graders will cover the Gilded Age, time after the Civil War, suffrage in South Dakota, boarding ...

The South Dakota Department of Education has released a set of proposed social studies standards ... Americans in South Dakota prior to the Civil War, including the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux ...