The Department of History and CWRU History Associates will host the 2024 Carl W. Ubbelohde Public Lecture Thursday, Sept. 26, at 7 p.m. in Tinkham Veale University Center, Ballroom A.
The lecture will feature James Grossman, executive director of the American Historical Association, the leading organization for professional historians and teachers of history at all levels.
Grossman will present “Hijacking History Education: Legislation, Standards, and Politicizing the Teaching of the Past.” During this talk, Grossman will explore how state boards of education have increasingly become involved in defining standards for history education—leaving social studies teachers in our public schools uncertain of what they can or cannot teach.
Grossman is the author of Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration and A Chance to Make Good: African-Americans 1900-1929. Grossman was project director and co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Chicago. He is editor emeritus of fifty volumes of the University of Chicago Press book series “Historical Studies of Urban America.” Many of his articles and essays focus on urban history, African American history, and the place of history in education and public culture.
This lecture is free and open to the public; register to attend.