This seems pretty egregious. I can see how certain trainings or workshops that some parents take exception to seem really outside of what a history class can be expected to do, but the kind of texts that are being banned here make me feel that there is now just sort of an allergy to anything that mentions race or racism.

Natalia Mehlman Petrzela

Natalia Mehlman Petrzela is an American historian, specializing in the politics and culture of the modern United States. She is a professor of history at The New School. Petrzela is also a history communicator who frequently writes pieces about American history in popular media outlets, co-hosts the Past Present podcast, and has created or been featured in educational videos for The History Channel and C-SPAN.

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