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Immigrant rights march, May 1, 2006, Seattle; from Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project

Arizona’s HB 2281 goes into effect today, and Historians Against the War is calling for instructors around the country to take a few minutes in classes or other places to read a passage from one of the books that the law requires be removed from classrooms throughout the state. The books are:

Critical Race Theory by Richard Delgado
500 Years of Chicano History in Pictures edited by Elizabeth Martinez
Message to Aztlan by Rodolfo Corky Gonzales
Chicano! The History of the Mexican Civil Rights Movement by Arturo Rosales
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Fiere
Rethinking Columbus:…
[read more at Now and Then]

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Podcasts from “Is There Anything More to See?”

Podcasts from the third program of Still Hazy After All These Years explore the persistence of photography’s influence over the vision of the Civil War. In Is There Anything More to See? Civil War Photography and History, a panel of noted art historians and historians ponder what remains to be learned from the medium and the war’s visual record. Among...[More In the Limelight]




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