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(Right here is the place to enter your email address, rather than at the top of the page.)- Benjamin F. Alexander teaches American History and Government at the New York City College of Technology in Brooklyn, and holds a PhD in History from the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center. He is the author of The New Deal's Forest Army: How the Civilian Conservation Corps Worked (JHU Press, 2018) and Coxey's Army: Popular Protest in the Gilded Age (JHU Press, 2015), both of which can be ordered directly from the Hopkins Press website at a 30% discount with the code HTWN. He resides in Bloomfield, NJ, just outside of New York City.
bfalexander@citytech.cuny.edu
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Legislators, Leave Those Teachers Alone!
Back in the mid-1990s, Lynne Cheney was waging a crusade against a teaching resource called the National History Standards, which she called “politically correct to a fare-thee-well.” In 2006, the Florida legislature passed a law requiring that “American history shall … Continue reading
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