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.…
African and Indigenous Peoples: An Alliance for Defense, Survival and Revolution
The Thanksgiving Holiday Is An Opportunity To Remember How The Settler Colonial State Began Its Genocide Against Both Indigenous People And Enslaved Africans.
Jim Mamer: Fake Journalism Is Only the First Draft of Fake History
35 year teaching veteran Jim Mamer explores the areas of history many schools fail to teach and what it means about the state of the world today, on this week's…
Ron DeSantis’ Strategic Delusions
American history continues to be rewritten as the conversation around education heats up.
The President Gets an “F” in American History
By Jim Mamer / Original to ScheerPost For 35 years I taught high school classes in politics, economics and American history. And for 35 years I struggled against a mythological…
ScheerPost Celebrates Norman Lear’s 100th Birthday
The six-time Emmy Award winner, television legend and political activist adds another achievement to his already monumental history: a century of life.
Patriotic History is Fake History
Feel-good stories and the series of platitudes studied in elementary and secondary textbooks is no way to teach the young.
The Truth About the ‘War of 1812’
A survey of one of only 5 "declared" wars in U.S. history, the "war of 1812," concentrating on why it was significant especially to American political party history, and relations…