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#30 Teaching Controversy is Controversial (And It Always Has Been)

Nov 20, 201731 min
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Episode description

When questions produce quarrels, it can be easy to blame our current state of politics. But coping with contention is a learned skill—a skill that our schools have been actively avoiding for over a century. In this episode, we talk with historian Jon Zimmerman about the teaching of controversial issues: past, present, and future.
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