Timothy Messer-Kruse is a professor of ethnic studies at Bowling Green State University and author of The Patriots’ Dilemma: White Abolitionism and Black Banishment in the Founding of the United States of America (Pluto Press, April 2024).
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The Review | Essay
Civics education could be the next battleground for control of the classroom.
The Review | Essay
The filmmaker’s new documentary on Benjamin Franklin tells an old and misleading story.
The Review
Laws against teaching critical race theory might backfire on Republicans.
The Review
Its liberal and conservative critics both miss the point.
The Review
Experts once structured and categorized knowledge. Now search engines do that task. The result? Anarchy.
The Chronicle Review
Claims to authority by both academe and Wikipedia are riddled with contradictions.
Observer
The author has written two books about the Haymarket riot and trial. In some circles, that affords a presumption of expertise. Not, however, on Wikipedia.
