Missing Links in Textbook History: Colonialism
By Jim Mamer / Original to ScheerPost Editor’s Note: This marks the 12th installment in Jim Mamer’s “Missing Links” series. A former high school teacher and recipient of the National…
Missing Links in Textbook History: Labor From World War I Through the New Deal
By Jim Mamer / Original to ScheerPost “The capitalists tell us it is patriotic to fight for your country and shed your blood for the flag. Very well! Let them…
[rewind] Missing Links in Textbook History: Indigenous People
ScheerPost is rewinding this piece from February of this year in honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day. By Jim Mamer / Original to ScheerPost Oh, the history books tell itThey tell…
Missing Links in Textbook History: Labor Before World War I
By Jim Mamer / Original to ScheerPost “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” – Frederick Douglass Canandaigua, New York 1857 When I was…
Missing Links in Textbook History: Defining Democracy
"Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There never was a Democracy yet, that did not commit suicide." — John Adams in a letter to John…
Missing Links in Textbook History: Racism and Race
By Jim Mamer / Original to ScheerPost Race is the child of racism, not the father. Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me In 1963, James Baldwin wrote in “The…
Missing Links in Textbook History: Civil Rights and Human Rights
By Jim Mamer / Original to ScheerPost Human rights invented America. Ours was the first nation in the history of the world to be founded explicitly on such an idea.…
Missing Links in Textbook History: Ethnic Studies
By Jim Mamer / Original to ScheerPost This is the sixth in a series of columns exposing “Missing Links” in high school history textbooks. Previous columns have focused on Indigenous…
Missing Links in Textbook History: Women
In the latest installment of the Missing Links series, Jim Mamer explores written history's outlook on women and the disparity between men and women in textbooks.
Missing Links in Textbook History: The Roots of the American War in Vietnam
Jim Mamer continues his series deconstructing the flaws in American history taught in high school classrooms, this time tackling the Vietnam War.
Missing Links in Textbook History: Cold War Origins
By Jim Mamer / Original to ScheerPost Paranoia strikes deep Into your life it will creep It starts when you’re always afraid You step out of line, the man come…
Missing Links: The Legacy of Textbook History
By Jim Mamer / Original to ScheerPost It took almost 10 years of teaching before I finally grasped the extent to which secondary American history textbooks fostered misunderstanding and confusion.…
Inequality and Dishonesty Will Kill Democracy
By Jim Mamer / Original to ScheerPost On November 2, 2022, less than a week before the recent national election, President Biden delivered a speech warning against voter intimidation, political…
Celeste Ng’s Piercing Portrayal of the Dystopia in Which We Live
Reading “Our Missing Hearts” becomes an exercise in recognizing the many ways today’s America is already a nightmare.