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Call for Submissions: History of Education Society Outstanding Book Award
Call for Submissions:
History of Education Society Outstanding Book Award
This award recognizes the most outstanding book on the history of education published during the previous year. This includes work on schooling as well as educational institutions and processes more broadly, concerning the U.S. and/or other locations. Only books copyrighted in 2017 are eligible for consideration for the 2018 prize.
Criteria used to evaluate the books include:
Is teaching Western Civ in the name of world history racist?
Increasingly, I do think that teaching Western Civilization under the guise of a course called world history is racist.
Here is my recent article on the History News Network:
https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/168813
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