Teaching of history

Historian Patricia Cleary’s new book details the history of the more than two dozen mounds that once stood in St. Louis.

More than half of Illinois' teachers surveyed said they are ready to embrace social studies standards that include teaching LGBTQ+, Asian American, and pre-enslavement Black history in its public schools.

As the Black Lives Matter movement draws attention around the world to long-entrenched racial injustices of the present day, the past looms large as well.…