How Should We Teach the Story of Our Country?

The past few years have seen an intensifying of the ways politics can intervene in education, including the censorship of books. Lawmakers in Texas have made to restrict the books that kids can access in schools. Leaders inother states across the country have done the same, including in Tennessee, where one local school board , a graphic novel that brutally—but honestly—depicts the Holocaust. Under Governor Ron DeSantis, Florida has passed sweeping laws, and . In January, the state even , AP African American Studies. (The class’s curriculum has since been ; Florida whether it will actually impose the ban.)