A Superintendent of a Texas school has apologized for telling his faculty that they had to teach “opposing” views on the Holocaust. Get up to speed here. Here is Mary Papenfuss at Yahoo News: A north Texas school superintendent has apologized for...
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“Very fine people on both sides” comes to a Texas school district
Here is NBC News: SOUTHLAKE, Texas — A top administrator with the Carroll Independent School District in Southlake advised teachers last week that if they have a book about the Holocaust in their classroom, they should also offer students access to a...
Marjorie Taylor Greene apologizes for comparing mask mandates to Holocaust
Watch: I don’t know what is really going on here, but I will give Greene the benefit of the doubt. I am encouraged that she changed her mind after visiting the Holocaust Museum. She learned some history today, and that...
The “America First Exhibit” at the Holocaust Museum
My forthcoming book Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump devotes several pages to Trump’s use of the phrase “America First.” The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum‘s exhibit “Americans and the Holocaust” was not yet open when I was writing these...
What Americans Thought About Refugees in 1939
This poll was taken by the Gallup American Institute of Public Opinion in 1939. Most of these German and Austrian refugees were Jews fleeing Hitler. The Washington Post has some context....
German Soldiers React to Footage of Concentration Camps
From Rebecca Onion at The Vault
When School Districts Do Not Understand Historical Thinking
An Albany, New York teacher was placed on leave and will face disciplinary action and possible termination because she/he asked students to try to understand the mentality of the Nazis during the Holocaust. Here was the writing assignment that the...